Expanding on the foundation
The other day I got some interesting questions about the first Foundation post, so rather than answering them as a comment, I figured it would be more useful to write another post instead.
Archive for the ‘Best Practices’ Category
Naming conventions
Back in April Markus posted his element naming conventions. I think it’s time to reiterate this, by adding some of those we’ve been developing in UCB. And why. When developing things it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking you know what things mean, so everyone else should as well. Please. Remeber the developer coming [...]
Using foundations for testing
Ok, so previously I covered some of the benefits of using a foundation project. I forgot to go into detail about how we plan to use the foundation for testing. If you’ve set things up with all your templates in a foundation project and put all your content into a child project, you’re probably thinking [...]
Speeding up your project in smartEdit
This little tip worked for speeding up our projects, so hopefully it will do the same for you. Our stylesheets and script files had a lot of areas that we wanted to use placeholders for, such as variables, images or links to other script files. As such they were all created as content classes. Unfortunately [...]
Setting the foundations
In any project you have to start somewhere and before anything else, even the naming schemes, the structure of your projects are always the most important thing to look at. You need to make sure you are going to be putting your projects together in a format that’s not going to cause you problems later [...]