Lotto winner!

I was having such a crap day yesterday I thought - maybe all of my luck has gone elsewhere, so I did something I never do - bought a ticket in the Oz lotto. And I won! I got 3 numbers and a supplementary, which means I probably won enough to buy myself a sandwich at lunchtime tomorrow....I can feel the tide turning...

Tonight's class was about JavaScript. I enjoyed it as I am supposed to be including JavaScript in my final project and despite the fact that I researched it when I wrote the micro/macro thing, it all looked Greek to me. When we looked at it during the overview earlier in the semester, I hadn't got my head around XHTML and CSS yet, so it just looked like extra, confusing letters and symbols. The good news is after tonight, I sort of get it. I honestly felt my brain stretching when Alastair was going through it, but that whole thing re the full stop being the point that separates the action from the thing being acted on makes it easier of me to interpret the code. I'm not saying I'm ready to go out and start scripting like crazy, but I think I could at least read what I might end up borrowing for my project...

I also found it really useful having a chat with Alastair re my options for forms on my site. I think I should have swallowed my pride and started asking questions a long time ago...also helpful was his review of my micro/macro analysis with some useful feedback. Not to mention Wang Wei's feedback! That was a lovely surprise, with some constructive feedback as well as some kind words. Now I just have to find time to go back and amend the analysis...

I finished the XHTML pages for my final project on Sunday. Except for the navigation bar. Both top and bottom. I am thinking about having the navigation bar stay in place at the top of the page, by anchoring the div, but not sure if I should then not bother to put the old style link navigation along the bottom of the page. And what's the story with copyrights or disclaimer things at the bottom of the page? I clearly don't have copyright on the page. But maybe the client does with her logo? NFI...

Anyway, I thought the navigation bar was going to be a series of pictures (buttons) with links. Then I noticed the 'buttons' in the JavaScript examples tonight, set up as an ordered list and wondered if that's how I should have it set up. I whacked them in there like that for the mean time, plus divided up the XHTML into what seemed like logical divisions (incl naming them). Well, on the home page, anyway. It's going to be my test case - once I've worked out what I'm doing on that, I'm going to roll it out to the other pages.

I have to say, I think there's a latent nerd in me. I'm starting to enjoy the coding - even more than photoshop at the moment, as I feel more confident about fumbling my way through the code, or at least confident enough to know where to look to find out what I'm doing wrong. Photoshop on the other hand is just a vast, mysterious set of tools - they seem like they could probably do some interesting things, if I just had some time to faff about with them for a few days to work out what that is exactly...

I've also discovered I quite enjoy blogging. I might just have to start one of these up once this semester is over...sure beats a paper diary...