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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 ...

Planning ahead

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I think next time I would like to create a basic style sheet. This tutorial at about.com seems useful for that purpose. We'll see.

Ah, syntax!

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Picking up on Collin's recommendation of Eric Meyer for instruction in CSS, I Googled Meyer and found his site, which includes information on his books as well as links to CSS stuff he's written for the web. I was happily looking around on his site until I realized that nothing ...

Filling my plate

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

I'm saving links for the project on del.icio.us

And so it begins

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

F0r a very long time, I've intended to learn CSS well enough to more aggressively design blog pages and other web sites. Last summer (or was it fall?), Jenny invited me and a number of other people to join her in putting together an RSA panel on the amateur, in ...