Archive for April, 2008

Alterations

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Today I decided to see if I could help Julia create a left sidebar for her law blog. I found Blogger Buster, which offered a most promising tutorial on creating a three column blogger template. And yet, after following the instructions, I thought, exactly, here's what I ended up with: Harumph. Not ...

div

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

I think <div> is the key to what I've been looking for. (Like, how to create those web sites that look like blogs. Or blogs, even.) Mandarin Design (which is, I think, another of the sites Marcia sent to me) offers many nice ideas for using <div> to create design. ...

Back to patience

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

So, ok, I went back to the tutorial. When I looked at the style sheets over at Zen Garden, I realized I could use some more basic syntactic understanding before borrowing from the experts. Today I worked with boxes and positioning. So here's what I've got now:

Short cuts

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I have grown weary of learning CSS. Or, I should say, I have grown weary of building my own style sheet from the ground up. So today I visited Zen Garden, where graphic designers are invited to submit css designs. Visitors to the site are invited to look at the ...

Playing with fonts

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

I continued with the css tutorial today, learning to manipulate background images and change fonts. Here's what I've got now:

My first style sheet

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Using the helpful tutorial Marcia pointed me to, I've now created a very, very basic style sheet. And when I say basic, I mean it has a background color and a header color. But it's a start, and I'll continue adding to it as I continue through the tutorial. Here's ...