DIY Geekdom: XHTML, CSS, end of Day 3

More education. Less schooliness.

DIY Geekdom: XHTML, CSS, end of Day 3

More transparency as I learn what I’m sure to many of you is basic, using Ian Lloyd’s book from Sitepoint Press. (And I wonder if I’m going to kick myself for doing this, rather than putting this energy into simply learning Dreamweaver, which was installed on my new MacBook yesterday. It doesn’t hurt to know standards-based XHTML and CSS, I guess.)

Day 3/Chapter 4: Made the “feature” photo float in-line with CSS, added a “navigation container” from the wizard Ian Lloyd made, tweaked some padding and formatting, and changed a bit of wording. I especially like the Kurt Vonnegut quote from “Man Without a Country” added to the bottom of the page:

“The good Earth - we could have saved it, but we were too damn cheap and lazy.”

–maybe that should be part of the tagline?

Anyway, here’s the homepage as it evolved over the last 3 days:

Day 1 (end of Ch. 2):

Day 2 (end of Ch. 3):

Day 3 (end of Ch. 4):

And here’s the bottom half of the hompage (I just love turtblu’s picture from Flickr):

And the very bottom, with the Vonnegut blockquote:

What’s nice, too, about this bit of fun is that it serves as proof that I’ve learned this stuff - without having to pay a school to give me a piece of paper “certifying” my qualifications. Another empowerment - beyond the academy (sorry, but grad school made me laugh so often) - brought to you by web 2.0.

Unless the institution finds ways to invalidate the obvious by requiring me to cough up money for that piece of paper, anyway. I wouldn’t be surprised.

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