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Turning off Sogo CSS

Mon, May 18 2009 10:49pm GMT 1
canada.rob 14 Posts Sign up Now!	Hello all, With the recent ability to turn off all CSS to your network, and just have the XHTML come through, I am intrigued, but a little unsure of where to start if I were to switch it off. I'm hoping that I can get some advice on the steps - is it truly a question of brute forcing through each div, class and id? Or is there a more elegant way to do it? Or a program from somewhere that will generate a skeleton CSS file... something like that. Warmest regards, Rob
Wed, May 20 2009 01:15am GMT 2
ezra vancil 71 Posts Sign up Now!	It depends, if you are a novice/intermediate CSS designer or advanced. The great thing about being abel to turn off their CSS is YES, you do have to replace or override their CSS. If you mess up and delete a property you'll be scratching your head when things look like crap. It's just more work. And you will almost always find something in their CSS over-ruling you.. and have to throw some !important's in their cause your tired. If novice/intermediate , why not use Socialgo's structure.. it's pretty clean and stable. Download their main CSS with web-developer FFplugin or another CSS nabber. Work on your own server space or hard disk when your designing, delete and add CSS rules at will. Get it just how you like... What I do is grab the source for the HOME, MAGAZINE, FORUM, VIDEO and PROFILE pages, link my CSS, and work off my hard drive with them. this will cover you on most of the layout you will need to address. If your more advanced, how great is it to just grab the XHTML and build the site like their structure and borders/buttons never existed? You'll most certainly come up with something that looks nothing like SG... but, you'll also have to work out the bugs and browser compatibility they have already done. ez
Sat, May 23 2009 09:29pm GMT 3
canada.rob 14 Posts Sign up Now!	Thanks, Ezra - all good tips! Standby for an invitation any day to my non-SoGo looking SoGo website (laugh). I have very little CSS background, so this is all learning curve for me... cheers
Sat, May 23 2009 10:00pm GMT 4
ezra vancil 71 Posts Sign up Now!	Something I found out recently about dropping their CSS is there are many little places you wouldn't think about, like the chat window that get lost, so it really is allot of work.

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