more webby stuff
Sooo...vacation has been pretty nice so far. In fact it isn't that different than being in school, except now I have even more time to do nothing.
To fill up the nothing-ness, I decided to work on a project to use some css elements I wanted to get some experience with, so I made what could possibly be the most useless website in the entire world. This will probably be the first of many useless sites constructed just for the sake of practicing. The site is a simple two pager featuring every Facebook status update I have made for the entire year.
Why?
Well, just because. It serves no real purpose, although I suppose I could look back on the list and get a feel for how my year has gone. The real goal here was to get acquainted with absolute positioning, scrollable nested content window, using vertical-align, and a cleaner file structure. By cleaner file structure I mean that I created an images folder inside the main folder and used relative file paths when referencing the images. In my last site, when you opened the main folder, all the html pages and the images where in the same folder. Not a big deal rom the user side, but on my end it just sort of made the workspace cluttered and it isn't really a best practice. These things are simple, but until I have done every one of them a few times, they remain outside my toolbox. I also felt like it might be fun to try and design for something so simple and see if I could still come up with something that looks non-template based.
Here it is with CSS (edit: removed)
Here it is without CSS (edit: removed)
Silly innit? Gotta practice though. When I used to make music, I would make all these little chunks of songs, but never finish them. Thats what this kind of work reminds me of. Drills.
If you are viewing in Firefox, you will see the rounded corners, but not if you view in IE. Using border-radius is some sort of new fangled css3 dealio that isn't compatible across te board yet, or at least I don't know the hack to make it work in every browser. I have no idea if it works in Opera or Safari. If you know the hack to make it work across the board lemme know, aight?