The designer is supposed to be an expert in all of this stuff? I thought he was supposed to be an expert in graphic design?
I remember a time, many years ago, when if you wanted to edit a graphical user interface, you would use a graphical user interface to do that. Since the interface you are editing is graphical.
I have been manually doing this CSS / HTML stuff for many years, but I think that it would make about 100x more sense if we used the CSS/HTML just as a format for the editing and display tools to store and retrieve the data.
I actually think the biggest reason we are still doing it by hand is that people (like myself) are afraid that someone will think they aren't a real programmer if they use a GUI.
After all, programmers write ASCII codes, and if you're not doing that, you're not programmer. Right?
Dreamweaver, Frontpage, and a dozen other random tools I've used that proclaim to reduce the code associated with design are that way --->. Let us know if you find anything that works for anything non-trivial. Or anything trivial for that matter.
http://scrollkit.com! very flexible in terms of design, though not made for liquid layouts. (disclosure: my project) let me know if there's anything you want it to do that it doesn't.
I remember a time, many years ago, when if you wanted to edit a graphical user interface, you would use a graphical user interface to do that. Since the interface you are editing is graphical.
I have been manually doing this CSS / HTML stuff for many years, but I think that it would make about 100x more sense if we used the CSS/HTML just as a format for the editing and display tools to store and retrieve the data.
I actually think the biggest reason we are still doing it by hand is that people (like myself) are afraid that someone will think they aren't a real programmer if they use a GUI.
After all, programmers write ASCII codes, and if you're not doing that, you're not programmer. Right?