Sunday, May 11, 2008

Time flies when you're having fun...

OK, I've been coding for almost 9 hours now (except I did stop to have lunch with mum, and my bit of blog earlier today...). I keep having a-ha moments with CSS. Lots of faffing about today but my home page actually sort of all fits together now. Still needs tweaking (and the proper text/pictures) but I think my template is done!

I couldn't get things aligned and stuff was jumping about all over the place until I put it all in a big container. Suddenly things stayed in place. I'm going to have to go back and clean up some of my code though, I experimented all day and there were quite a few non-functioning attempts i think I've left scraps of behind...

I managed to resist looking to see how the experts have done the three columns of text without tables. I suspect I've done it the hard way, and there were moments today where I was questioning why i was bothering to reinvent the wheel again, but now I'm done, I feel I actually get it. I know my page isn't the most exciting and creative thing I've ever seen, but I'm bloody proud of it, actually. Not bad for a first go. Besides, its only an intro page for a small business. Must try to keep things in perspective :-)

I might check out the proper way to do it tomorrow...now I need to get back to the ordeal that is photoshop...who would have thought I would ever have said that!

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