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By thedrumdoctor - Fri 1 Apr 2011
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Not being a programmer, my only approach has to come from HMTL/CSS knowledge.
Therefore, in my position, would people approach a redesign project in Kartris by either:
1.) Completely reverse engineer it by wiping the style sheets and starting form scratch or:
2.) Leaving the style sheets intact and editing them to suit.
Any thoughts appreciated.
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By saturation - Sat 2 Apr 2011
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I would suggest editing the existing stylesheets. Check your changes everytime you adjust a stylesheet before you make too many changes and have to backtrack to find out where your changes went wrong.
The problem with wiping them out completely is you will have to redefine every single aspect of your page. Most people, for example, already want the navigation horizontally across the top and the logo at the top left--the stylesheets put them in place there. The width and layout is already well put together, but you can swap images, color, font styles, font sizes, etc.
In my opinion, it will be a lot less work, and you will have a much better guarantee of everything showing up correctly if you just use what's already in place. Good for learning, too--particularly if you adjust styles just a bit and see what happens to them.
Good luck.
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By Mart - Sun 3 Apr 2011
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I'd agree with what saturation says.
When we're faced with customizing Kartris for a client, or other similar applications (eg this very forum software was purchased from a third party) then we start with their existing CSS and work from there, rather than wiping it out and starting from scratch.
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By thedrumdoctor - Mon 4 Apr 2011
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I've been trying the total wipeout with the CSS and it does seem to make the job a lot more difficult than simply working through the structure bit by bit and doing a basic reskinning job. Guess I was getting too cocky after building a WordPress theme from scratch, this has far more elements to it than I first expected.
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