Why we love Mollio

We are a team of developers and as such we cannot do much in the way of design and even we are beginning to think we can make things that look good, well you know what happens when developers design things.

Enter Mollio, a open source skin from the folks at Daemon. Slap it on our code and we get a functional, good-looking web site in seconds. Want proof? This blog is proof of how quickly it can be. We took BlogCFC, and in about five minutes we had the skin on and about 2 minutes later, it was live.

Whilst we don’t agree on everything that they have done in Mollio (ie: strong vs b tags) it is not hard for us to make some small tweaks to the CSS files to include our preferred tags into the framework.

Then when it comes to design time, our designer can go to town with the CSS files and the default HTML templates. When she is happy, we drop in her CSS and hey presto our code looks great!

Want to learn more? Check out the goggle groups about Mollio

Comments
Geoff Bowers's Gravatar strong vs b tags? In this day and age what's the argument for b (with the exception perhaps of email HTML)?
# Posted By Geoff Bowers | 7/14/06 1:53 PM
Brendan Smith's Gravatar Yeah... I have to ask, what's your gripe with the strong tag? Haven't we churned that over enough?
# Posted By Brendan Smith | 7/14/06 3:27 PM
rob's Gravatar We are not entirely sure what lucas meant by this. He is currently offline for the arvo. Sorry people!
# Posted By rob | 7/14/06 3:35 PM
Lucas Sherwood's Gravatar You got it! the strong tag is where it is at, unfortunatly the Mollio skin uses the b tag in a few places...
# Posted By Lucas Sherwood | 7/14/06 4:36 PM
dc's Gravatar You shouldn't really just use strong tags anywhere you want bold text. You need to know what your text means semantically.

The good guide I got from an O'Reily book was that if you read the text back, and where you have strong tags, you are effectively shouting and em tags mean you are raising your voice.

If you want bold tags for presentation purposes only (eg form labels), you should apply it via a span and a CSS style.

Sorry one of my pet peeves.
# Posted By dc | 7/15/06 1:58 AM
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