Designer considerations and guide lines (2/6 on Webskin Template Authoring)
At Daemon we first prototype the design in Photoshop and then create a working set of valid XHTML mark-up. We try and get the site design in HTML just the way we want before converting it into a farcry skin. You certainly don't have to follow this approach; we just find it useful for weeding out design issues before we start programming.
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This is valid HTML mark-up and would render on the page correctly.
Navigation
Farcry has a variety of useful webskin custom tags to help with template development. One such tag is genericNav.cfm which generates lovely-jubbly un-ordered list mark-up for navigation elements. This is just peachy for css based designs.
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So far so good. Lets get skinning! Read on, on the C Getting Started page (3/6 on Webskin Template Authoring)