I really like the feel of how I tweaked the page. It is now taking advantage of far more space and shrinks down better, which is nice. For the moment, if you are using FireFox or a current version of Opera, the menu on the right drops down all nice when you hover over the text. Internet Explorer, well, it just sits there. I am debating it I want to spend time figureing out a workabout for the broken browser, if I simply want to reward people for using good, solid, functional browsers, or if I just want to make a non-dynamic menu. It was amusing as I was tweaking various things to see just how IE would react. I had to go through about 6 perfectly good renditions of the page before I could get IE to display like Opera and FireFox...and all of them should have looked exactly alike. Oh well, if I don't get adventurous and try a workaround for IE, I will probably just go with the non-dynamic. Oh, and a sidenote, no braincells where harmed by usage of javascript. It is all CSS.
Well, I like it, but Internet Explorer doesn't.
Posted on: 2005-04-13 15:35:33, by talam
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New theme.
Posted on: 2005-02-14 15:22:00, by talam
Well, I was planning on doing a redesign today. I spent a short amount of time looking for my Wacom..found it but failed to find the pen that goes with it. Since I was planning on crappily drawn images not having the Wacom was not a big deal. So here you are. I am going to do some positioning tweaks over the next couple of days, but expect it to be very similar to this for awhile.
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Slight update.
Posted on: 2004-07-16 10:03:55, by talam
I just realized that somewhere between testing the light blue theme I am using and last night, that I messed up my stylesheet so that it looked different in Opera and in Internet Explorer. I popped up ie for something last night and was shocked to see them different. After a little digging, I discovered that ie does not handle the padding properties correctly, which makes me wonder what the hell I had been using to begin with.
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rantfest with style
Posted on: 2004-05-14 20:39:15, by talam
I have been playing with adding alternate styles to rantfest, and I think I got most of it worked out. It took longer than I wanted it to, and it took a little more work than I wanted it to as well. Anyways, right now I have two styles: black and ivory. All the content is the same, just different stylesheets. I this shows the power of cascading stylesheets in ways that just me babbleing can't.
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It is a sad day: Webmonkey is shutting down.
Posted on: 2004-03-01 00:00:00, by talam
I hate to say it, but the site I send nearly everyone who is interrested in web design to is shutting its doors. I had read a post on /. the other day about how they were closing, and it filled me with a sense of loss. When I was first playing with HTML, I was, well, really bad at it (yes this implies that I think higher of myself now). A lot my time at behind the consultant desk at IUPUI was spent at WebMonkey as I learned how to not suck at what I was doing. It taught me to respect the actual code I was writing, the placement of images, and why CSS is just damn cool.
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Valid HTML: Its the law!
Posted on: 2004-01-29 00:00:00, by talam
Really want to keep this brief, which means that I will probably prattle on for pages. I have a couple of points I would like to make, then I should be satisfied for a while. I take web design fairly seriously for some reason. I both enjoy doing it and enjoy talking about. But I also think that they are there for the purpose of communication.
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