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Permalink Reply by Colleen Dick on November 19, 2009 at 2:41pm

any designers familiar with the three layers of frontend as in http://webdesign.about.com/od/intermediatetutorials/a/aa010707.htm I want to talk to you.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Prothero on November 19, 2009 at 3:07pm

Yes, I endorse that as good.

Generally my behavior layer is jQuery and then I use the normal XHTML (content)/CSS (style) layers.]

What do you want to talk about?

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Permalink Reply by Loyan Roylance on November 19, 2009 at 3:12pm

Colleen, at ProWorks we like to think of web projects in four layers. Each layer is important and needs to support the other layers.

1) Database/Content
2) Function/Business
3) Design/Interface
4) Purpose/Strategy

In general its pretty similar to the article you shared and other muiti-tiered development approaches. What would you like to chat about?

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Permalink Reply by Jill Burrows on November 30, 2009 at 4:18pm

I have typically always followed separation of content from design/presentation and behavior. Behavior is two-fold, if the browser supports the Javascript, it uses it; if not, it falls back to old non-Ajaxian server request page refresh behavior. If the presentation layer isn't supported (CSS) then it should gracefully fall back to semantically correct (X)HTML that a screen reader or web-crawler can use. Which tells you what the base of the the layers are: semantically rich markup.

For projects I usually let the purpose/business drive the function/content, while the strategy/audience drives the design/interface. Performance/price points drive the choice of development language, database, and host.

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Permalink Reply by William Ray Ford on December 26, 2009 at 9:01am

Huh? I have typically always followed the leader. Once and I while I become the leader but most of the time I follow the leader. I learned most of what I know in the 1st grade. Your response makes you the leader and I know you did not learn this in the 1st grade. Heck, I just celebrated my 66th birthday and of course didn't have the option of separation of content from design/presentation and behavior. We just kind of leaned our ABC's and stuff cuz no computers had been invented. I guess I could learn to read these kind of responses but I have learned to have friends like Loyan who can read it and explain it all to me! smile