TECH Need CSS tips for my personal site.

[dmora]

How do i make HTML load random CSS options?
Like if i wanted to change the color of the outlines and <h#>'s etc.

 

[retorq]

Use PHP to pull a random css from a folder of them??

 

[owt200x]

Name your stylesheets in some order, say style1.css, style2.css etc.
Add this to your php loading code at the top of your page, the 1,5 is how many css files you have, start at 1 end at 5.

<? $num = rand(1,5); ?>


then put this after your head but before your body code

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style<? echo $num; ?>.css">

 

[White Stormy]

make one stylesheet as a base, and just write some javascript to change the colors using random numbers

no reason to add php processing for something dumb like that

 

[owt200x]

its alot easier using what i posted above than using javascript, which can be disabled by the ones looking at your site, php cant be disabled

 

[White Stormy]

its alot easier using what i posted above than using javascript, which can be disabled by the ones looking at your site, php cant be disabled

but is the overhead of the extra php processing really worth such a trivial gain?

I guess if you're more concerned with bandwidth than cpu usage, go the PHP route.

 

[owt200x]

actually the code to do this in php is a lot smaller and less complicated than javascript, and i dont know JS

plus with php and css you can make sure different color schemes dont conflict with each other, using random colors with javascript, you may get a pile of poo for colors, instead of certain schemes.

 

[White Stormy]

actually the code to do this in php is a lot smaller and less complicated than javascript, and i dont know JS

plus with php and css you can make sure different color schemes dont conflict with each other, using random colors with javascript, you may get a pile of poo for colors, instead of certain schemes.

random numbers to randomly pick a stylesheet

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/alternate/

 

[owt200x]

not trying to argue with u, just saying using the php code i put above is alot easier than javascript

 

[deusexaethera]

but is the overhead of the extra php processing really worth such a trivial gain?

I guess if you're more concerned with bandwidth than cpu usage, go the PHP route.

The PHP is all executed on the server; all it will do is choose a CSS sheet when the client requests to see the page, and then the page and the chosen CSS file will get sent out to the client.

 

[White Stormy]

The PHP is all executed on the server; all it will do is choose a CSS sheet when the client requests to see the page, and then the page and the chosen CSS file will get sent out to the client.

yeah..

just seems wasteful to me to use php to alter presentation when js is perfectly capable

either will work, though.