Tuesday, March 18, 2008

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 >,<

2 comments:

Amy said...

<.< >.>

...Don't you have Dreamweaver to help you cheat?

Tim said...

nope, handcoding, takes waaaay too long