[Website] Hmph.
Since I finished the chapter work for chapter two and can't yet bring myself to start chapter three, I decided that today I would spend working on the new layout design for sabrinahunt.net. And because it would be a complete and utter waste of money in so many ways if I didn't, I'm using Dreamweaver to do so.
:/
Basically, I'd already had the design in mind months ago, I just hadn't finished coding all the necessary pages. So I decided to use what I've learned since starting school to see how close I could get the same design in Dreamweaver to what I'd already coded.
It's basically exactly the same except I actually can't seem to place certain elements (the navigation buttons, to be precise) exactly how I want them, which I was able to do on my own. Dreamweaver isn't picky enough for someone who doesn't have a firm grasp of CSS (I'm getting there!), and it's actually not a very good program for someone who doesn't have a grasp on CSS anyway, because you really should know how CSS works in order to know how to tell Dreamweaver to do what you want with the CSS code. I basically used CSS to set the background color and the font family, and that's it. Everything else I'm doing with HTML (in Split, for anyone who's interested, so I can see the code and the WYSIWYG design at the same time, and switch back and forth between them as I need).
Anyway, it's annoying me. Dreamweaver's supposed to be faster than hand coding, but so far I haven't seen it. I once hand coded and entire website in six hours, and I've spent days on this. Of course, I will admit I'm new at Dreamweaver, and I'm still playing with it and learning its capabilities, so maybe I'll get faster with it once I'm a little more comfortable.
Anyways, I'm really just at the point where I'm creating the smaller pages. All the main pages are done. There are going to be excerpts now, and while I want to include free reads, I don't have any that are ready yet. So I'll probably just leave that page off until I have something.
Back to work!
:/
Basically, I'd already had the design in mind months ago, I just hadn't finished coding all the necessary pages. So I decided to use what I've learned since starting school to see how close I could get the same design in Dreamweaver to what I'd already coded.
It's basically exactly the same except I actually can't seem to place certain elements (the navigation buttons, to be precise) exactly how I want them, which I was able to do on my own. Dreamweaver isn't picky enough for someone who doesn't have a firm grasp of CSS (I'm getting there!), and it's actually not a very good program for someone who doesn't have a grasp on CSS anyway, because you really should know how CSS works in order to know how to tell Dreamweaver to do what you want with the CSS code. I basically used CSS to set the background color and the font family, and that's it. Everything else I'm doing with HTML (in Split, for anyone who's interested, so I can see the code and the WYSIWYG design at the same time, and switch back and forth between them as I need).
Anyway, it's annoying me. Dreamweaver's supposed to be faster than hand coding, but so far I haven't seen it. I once hand coded and entire website in six hours, and I've spent days on this. Of course, I will admit I'm new at Dreamweaver, and I'm still playing with it and learning its capabilities, so maybe I'll get faster with it once I'm a little more comfortable.
Anyways, I'm really just at the point where I'm creating the smaller pages. All the main pages are done. There are going to be excerpts now, and while I want to include free reads, I don't have any that are ready yet. So I'll probably just leave that page off until I have something.
Back to work!