I've always found that even with style guidelines in place, developers will still leave their fingerprints all over it.
Some devs will be verbose in their comments, some less. Some devs will embrace IoC where others shun it. Some devs will create a single method with all code in it, some will refactor the heck out of it with many methods. Heck, devs can't even agree sometimes on what should be public, protected, and private (and rarely will style guidelines dictate this kind of thing).
Your problem is you've mixed design with the site HTML.
Developers are notoriously bad at design work. Being a developer, I can tell you that we are not usually great at the artsy aspects it takes to design good sites.
However, if you give us a design, we can transform it (using our preferred frameworks) into a working site.
Somewhere along the way you got the idea that you can do it all, but that's your problem. You can't (and shouldn't) be coding or generating all of the pages. If your expertise is design, then have at it. But after your design is done, hand it over to a developer for implementation.
Just as I don't want to see a developer designing, I don't want to see a designer developing.
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At least it runs fast on all platforms!
It's called systemd. Many users are installing it so now there's a whole slew of linux boxen under someone else's control...
I'm running out of money too, if anyone wants to send some to me that would be great!
- Bill Gates
This was the only piece that was missing from systemd.
I'm sure now all of the growth will end and the community will start rallying around systemd.
Hmm, is that hell freezing over outside?
I really need it to have <insert buzzword here> support.
I've always found that even with style guidelines in place, developers will still leave their fingerprints all over it.
Some devs will be verbose in their comments, some less. Some devs will embrace IoC where others shun it. Some devs will create a single method with all code in it, some will refactor the heck out of it with many methods. Heck, devs can't even agree sometimes on what should be public, protected, and private (and rarely will style guidelines dictate this kind of thing).
I'll stick with linux, however.
Your problem is you've mixed design with the site HTML.
Developers are notoriously bad at design work. Being a developer, I can tell you that we are not usually great at the artsy aspects it takes to design good sites.
However, if you give us a design, we can transform it (using our preferred frameworks) into a working site.
Somewhere along the way you got the idea that you can do it all, but that's your problem. You can't (and shouldn't) be coding or generating all of the pages. If your expertise is design, then have at it. But after your design is done, hand it over to a developer for implementation.
Just as I don't want to see a developer designing, I don't want to see a designer developing.