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Originally posted by segosa
Your "edit descriptions" are needlessly detailed. Nobody actually cares why you made an edit. Even the fact that it occurred is borderline superfluous.
It's a habit after using forums which require a description. I add them so people know the reason for the edit, I admit a lot of them are a bit pointless but I don't want people to think I'm editing important information from them. I'll stop doing that.
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Originally posted by segosa
Anyway, if you lead a team of developers I can only thank a non-existent god that I don't work for you. If you force everyone to do something *one* way and one way only, I imagine working under you is hell.
I don't lead developers, but I've the most experience in front-end development and do something which works. It's something we've discussed and I've spent time developing. I haven't
forced them to do anything and I never will force them to do it. There are, however, right ways of doing things and I make sure I do all of those. That includes commenting and semantic, re-usable naming of elements. So it's something we spend time really thinking about, rather than making decisions spur of the moment which are detrimental to the rest of the site.
Everyone I work with appreciates that there's a reason to be semantic and that there's a reason we should all be on the same level for HTML/CSS. If we weren't, it'd be an absolute nightmare. I don't think anybody can tell me I'm incorrect for having a set way of doing things... Obviously you can be as lenient as possible, but what's the point of that?
Fortunately, the guys I work with also really care about the same stuff in their code. For example, the lead developer abhors spaces instead of tabs, so we all switched to tabs... A slight change that took us 5 minutes each, but now we're on the same level. The suggestions I have only take people an extra few moments and they make a lot of sense if you think about it.
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Originally posted by segosa
Your attitude about this whole thing just comes across as arrogant.
Crap, I seriously didn't mean to come across that way... I just really care about things like this, so end up getting on my high horse. Probably unnecessarily. Sorry about that.
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Originally posted by segosa
Furthermore, I think the "useless" javascript you're referring to, is simply ASP.NET. Note that I haven't taken a close look at the website, as whether it's bad or not is not really the point here.
I'm referring to the dropdown navigation, everything there could be done using CSS.
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Originally posted by Thor
In the end, that's not what this topic is about, but my personal opinion is that WordPress is for blogging. If you're not going to be blogging and/or that's not what your site's focus is on: don't use WordPress. You can, but I wouldn't. There are more suitable and flexible alternatives with a better foundation.
WordPress used to be a blogging platform but it isn't anymore, there's no reason why people can't use it to power their website. Most of the people I know are either using WordPress or ExpressionEngine to power their website. Plus the odd one or two using PerchCMS (which I haven't tried out).
