Di-aphanous

Final Project – My Mobile Lawyer

dianeolsen — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:31:25 +0000

Week 12 – Spry Menus

dianeolsen — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:51:06 +0000

Check out my spry menus – AACC Drop Down Menu

This was a pretty straight forward way to create drop down menus, which I had been very afraid of!! The CSS in Dreamweaver made this very easy to set up and edit. The menus were very intuitive.

Creating Navigation wit Customized Lists using CSS

dianeolsen — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:21 +0000

Here is the link to my assignment. CSS Navigation

For some reason my “home” link is not showing with the proper background in the link state. It is rendering correctly in the hover state. I looked at the code and and did not see anything that stands out as incorrect. I think I will try printing out the code and then redoing the exdercise to see where I went wrong. I’m thinking that looking at the code quite a bit is going to be the best way for me to get a substantive grip on CSS.

Reading – Killer Web Content

dianeolsen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:22:10 +0000

The same rules of marketing apply to the web that apply to the rest of the world — Tell them”What’s in it for me?”, make it memorable, don’t bury the lead. The biggest difference is that on the web you have so much information to choose from that the content must be event faster, stickier, and more enticing than in any other medium. Let’s face it. We are society that complains about A.D.D. on one hand and then encourages it on the other hand by being constantly “plugged in” and bombarded by millions of sights, sounds, words, and images.

The only way to make your content work is to make it relevant, memorable, and served in small, delectable, easy to digest slices — even War and Peace gets read one word at a time, one chapter at a time!

Week 12 – Lynda.com videos – CSS

dianeolsen — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:07:16 +0000

There was a lot of great information in those videos! I wanted to keep going, but I’m pretty sure my brain would have exploded!!

The information on floating was invaluable. One thing I have always struggled with is getting things to line up properly. Now I understand the differences and proper uses of margins and padding to make things line up properly. I am also getting more comfortable with the syntax of CSS. I also like the code turning an ordered list into a horizontal navbar.

The Dreamweaver CSS videos helped to put it together. Using starter pages will make creating pages much easier. I particularly like the final assigned video which showed how to combine separate css styles for layout and presentation into a single style sheet while keeping them separated. That is going to be invaluable to me as I attempt to master (or at least have a working acquaintance with) CSS. I hate messy code!!!

Week 11 – In Class Assignment – CSS & Templates

dianeolsen — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:29:11 +0000

DigitalJenn Week 11 Assignment - templates and CSS totally rock!

Reading Assignment – DW Templates and CSS Layouts

dianeolsen — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:02:50 +0000

I enjoyed this article and practice assignment and found the exercise somewhat helpful. I am beginning to understand the structure of CSS and like the ability to start with a basicCSS layout in Dreamweaver. I am still a bit unclear about the hierarchy and the different types of tags. I wanted to set up different styles in just the footer of my practice page but was unsure how to do that. I would really like a brief in class review of the different types of tags,classes, pseudo-classes, etc. I feel like I’m picking up bits and pieces of useful stuff but still don’t have an overall understanding of the basic structure of CSS coding. For instance what if I want to set up two different styles of text for the footer — one for navigation and one for disclaimers? I know they could be h5 and h6 for instance, but where do I specify those?

I now see how CSS can free me of the constraints of using tables all the time. This article was helpful in beginning to break down the basics. However it’s like learning a new language and picking up lots of useful phrases but still having no idea about the grammar and syntax. I just need to get a handle on the structure and then put it all together. Very cool, but frustrating!!!

OLA Design Comp

dianeolsen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:37:33 +0000

FOGE – HTML Page created from Fireworks Comp

dianeolsen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:23:12 +0000

Here is my first stab at creating a static html page for foge.org.

I had some difficulty moving the slices and creating the page. There is something weird going on with my content area and my rollovers are getting cut off a bit in my slices. I didn’t have time to rework some of these issues before turning in my homework, but I definitely learned a lot through the process. I did not end up tiling the background because I really can’t remember how to do that. I am hoping we can look at that in class, as this is a technique I may want to incorporate in my final project design.

CSS Zen Garden

dianeolsen — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:55:12 +0000

CSS Zen Garden is a really wonderful way to show the power of using CSS. By having various designers put their own CSS “skin” on the same web content it graphically demonstrates the power of CSS as a web design tool. The accompanying article was very good in describing the work flow of going from design concept to execution.