Blog design
Writing in CSS is alot harder than i thought. First of all, i didnt know what a widget was, and then i found out that the html and css are not all in the same spot when you are editing your blog html. Its mostly just css. Then i realized that to follow the examples that css zen garden was using i had to be able to code my html to match the style headings for the css. So it was very confusing for me. My site still isnt what i want it to be, but i haven't figured everything out yet. I eventually want the text to disappear at the pseudo white wash text background. I also want to make some links out of images, and replace them with the graffiti looking ends 170 writing on the wall to the right of the page... Basically just turn those pics into buttons. Another thing that took a long time to figure out was that its very difficult to create a new element, and placing it is difficult as well. I found that firebug was very helpful in understanding the architecture of the code for most pages. Firebug is a FireFox add-on. The way that i learned how to do what i have done, is by re-reading the tutorial on w3schools and then looking at the css/html code on css zen garden for a long long time.
Even though i have spent a long time trying to learn css, i havent been very successful. What i have so far is just some minor manipulation with padding and margins. I did the background in photoshop. The original image is actually from one of the shots that i took in Beijing.
posted by toddevan @ 7:11 PM
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