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Kieran Barker
15,028 PointsHow can I make my websites perfectly match clients' designs?
At work, I try my absolute best with projects I'm given but I tend to have trouble making them pixel perfect when compared with the designs I've been given. Everything has to be exact, even including where line breaks are (without using the <br> element).
Can anyone give me any advice?
People at work sometimes suggest overlaying a screenshot of my work over the design with a lower opacity — any other ideas? Many thanks!
1 Answer
Steven Parker
229,744 PointsI can certainly sympathize, but "reasonable" or not, if the assigned task requires you to be exact I think you have to learn how to accommodate.
But having to make screenshots to overlay for testing sounds unnecessarily labor-intensive. I'd take the design (I assume it's given as an image file?) and use it as a background while I adjust the HTML/CSS to replicate what they want. You only have to do that once, and as the final step you can replace it with the real background (or nothing, if none is needed).
Kieran Barker
15,028 PointsKieran Barker
15,028 PointsThanks for the suggestion, Steven! The designs actually tend to be PDF files.
Steven Parker
229,744 PointsSteven Parker
229,744 PointsYou can convert the PDF to an image file and then do the same thing.