g'morning
Sometimes getting the right answer has EVERYTHING to do with how the question is asked.
Did some more work on my attempt at the Handpicked DUB site. I'd like to tell you that I am pushing the envelope of innovative and interesting design, but quite the opposite is true. I'm new at this, so simple is better. In fact, simple is still complicated for me to construct. Also, I have to factor in that while making this site, I have to fulfill all the requirements to get a good grade, because I'm actually doing it for school. This means I have to do things in ways I would choose to do differently were a teacher and the continuing inflow of financial aid not involved. For example...I managed to squeeze a small
Did some more work on my attempt at the Handpicked DUB site. I'd like to tell you that I am pushing the envelope of innovative and interesting design, but quite the opposite is true. I'm new at this, so simple is better. In fact, simple is still complicated for me to construct. Also, I have to factor in that while making this site, I have to fulfill all the requirements to get a good grade, because I'm actually doing it for school. This means I have to do things in ways I would choose to do differently were a teacher and the continuing inflow of financial aid not involved. For example...I managed to squeeze a small
- (unordered list) in there, because she will check to see that I have one. At a certain point, I'll also have to integrate a table where there doesn't really need to be one, but I already have a plan for that. No idea what I'm gonna do to fulfill the "frames" component of the lessons. I may actually just whip up a second little project for that so that the integrity of my main project is not infected. People seem to hate frames. I'm of the school of thought that they don't have to be as bad as everyone makes them out to be, but they kind of jump out and say "Hey this site was designed the way that they did it back in the nineties". That's just an opinion though. I don't have the skills yet to be critical in a way that other people can hear.
So, yesterday I did such ho-hummery as: justifying large chunks of text, indenting some paragraphs, indenting the first line of those paragraphs, adjusting the dimensions of a horizontal rule, changing some text from
to (which will be helpful later), and expanding the copy. I hate having to write a bio- on myself, especially since I haven't really done -anything- in a long time. Used to be that some rave or club night promoter was always wanting a bio from me for a flyer. Now it would say "He sat around for the last three years thinking about stuff and getting off the powdered time-rubberizing drugs".
Anyway, the work I did yesterday was successful but at the same time it has created some curious results. Mainly, MS Expression creates a new css style for every indentation. This seems like overkill to me. There are 19 individual style declarations on this one page, and they ALL do the same thing. There has to be a way to create the style once and then just APPLY it to the areas I'd lke. But I haven't gotten to that part of the book yet.