Monday, January 29, 2007

CSS Editing: Attempt one




This was my first attempt at CSS, i must say that i am fairly pleased with myself, you see i am from the old school web editors circle. About a thousand years ago when i was in middle school with my little comrades we would have little battles between ourselves. We would see who could make the coolest web page. Mine wasn't the coolest, but it was still pretty fun, and i still remember the tedium of writing html code. So comparatively this CSS is immensely easier. I remember one of the hardest things to do was making tables in your web page. With CSS its a few simple lines and the css and content can be separated, so its less confusing! I mean, the flexibility and ease is staggering. Although i will be the first to admit that i am not yet an expert on CSS i think that for this first assignment i have gained a plethora of knowledge on the subject for a first go around. What i have done was manipulated the background and foreground color scheming as well as overlayed a background image setting the mood of the page. I have also altered the intentions as well as the activated and non activated hyper text links. Furthermore i attempted adding custom styles to the box1 and box2, however i ran into several problems. When i inserted the html tags it would sometimes seem to change the make up of the entire page and not be restricted to the contents of the box 1 or box 2. I feel that if i were to see someone adding custom styles to the boxes i would be able to do it with the knowledge that i have gained from reading the tutorial. This assignment was insightful and fun, i have certainly learned valuable tools in the web editing genre.