Zen Garden

Retro Theater
Trevor doesn't like this particular CSS that much, and I don't blame him. I actually think it's quite a clever design, however it doesn't fit the content of Zen Garden because there's too much content for that particular design. I think the Retro Theater design would fit well as the website design for my local Park Theatre



Wilderness
Dayne, Trevor, and I like this page. It fits the content onto the page properly, and resizes well to 800 resolution.


Edo and Tokyo
When you first go to the page, the image at the top is significantly overwhelming. Also, on a 1024 or larger resolution, there is a large amount of white space on the right side, because the entire page is aligned to the left. The text is awkward to read because the background color isn't dark enough for white text.


Dark Industrial
I like Dark Industrial for its design. The colors fit well and the text is well spaced. The sides have a lot of blank space, but it's tasteful.

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I worked with:
Dayne Kilheffer
Trevor Mumaugh

Learned that Alt+PrintScreen takes a screen shot of the selected window

Second ICE for Web Design

My second attempt at any serious X/HTML coding went marginally better than my first. I remembered a lot more of what I was doing, and a lot more of what was so amazingly frustrating about CSS. CSS is great for aligning blocks dynamically do different parts of a window, but there's very little support towards centering things. God forbid I want to center a nested element horizontally as well as vertically.

I'm sure there's some way how, but the naming varies from variable to variable, and some obvious ones are lacking. Sometimes you need to say middle, sometimes you need to say center. And horizontal-align doesn't exist.

I ended up making what I felt was a pretty good template for future web pages. I plan on reusing the one I just made for a different class. The web page seems rather empty for now, so I threw in some filler text.

I also have some residual files in my account because my FTP program no longer seems to do anything other than upload >,<

First ICE for Web Design

The last time I did any HTML coding was fall quarter of the 2006 school year, which means my web design skills were very rusty. I remembered very little CSS, and a few simple HTML commands.

The first ICE gave me a few problems trying to remember where to find things, and how to order things. Once I managed to find the DOCTYPE info I had to remember the rules for HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.0. I managed to create a website with very little CSS.

my first attempts at using CSS on my original file went poorly because I'd forgotten to use 'id="xyz"' and instead had used 'class="xyz"'. One problem I never figured out how to fix was the small space between my image of a chocolate candy and the border around it. In firefox there is a slight space that is beige. I'm not much of an artist, so I decided to put a border around the image so that the white to beige transition wasn't noticeable.

My HTML 4.01 recipe page is here
And my XHTML 1.0 recipe page is here