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#16 2017-02-04 18:01:21

bici

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From: vancouver

Registered: 2004-02-24

Posts: 2,277

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Re: Suggestions for site redesign workflow?

A somewhat related question. ( I hope this is the right thread to ask)

I have a ten year old site that needs to be updated and made to be simpler and, more importantly, responsive.

I have decided to base the redesign on the Colossus free template. It has many of the design features that match to some of my old site.

But it lacks many crucial CSS pieces that i will have to repurpose from my existing css styles. For example “pull quotes”, under image captions styling, cool footnotes styling and some other text styling.

My question is where should one add/make changes to the text styles etc? There are two CSS files: framework.css and layout.css

The layout css file imports like this:

@import url("fontawesome-4.3.0.min.css");
@import url("custom.flexslider.css");
@import url("framework.css");

I will have to try and reuse some of the text styling from my old site without breaking the responsiveness of the layout while retaining some of the text layout. Any and all advice greatly appreciated.

EDIT: updated to correct URL

Last edited by bici (2017-02-04 18:03:20)

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#17 2017-02-04 18:59:35

philwareham

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From: Haslemere, Surrey, UK

Registered: 2009-06-11

Posts: 3,566

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Re: Suggestions for site redesign workflow?

Yes you should use the layout.css file. You can add new styles there and override any styles used in framework.css there too (as it is later in the cascade).

A browser CSS inspector can help decipher what CSS is used where.