DIY Geekdom, Day 4: Header and Headaches - but Learning

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DIY Geekdom, Day 4: Header and Headaches - but Learning

Here’s day 4, working through Chapter 5 of Ian Lloyd’s XHTML and CSS book. It got confusing today which, since it forced me to step back and review, was good.

Added: background picture to navigation box, header background picture, “world-changing students” feature page.

I found a Firefox add-on called “Screen Grab!” which captures entire pages, not just windows, so I don’t have to cut up the pages anymore

Here’s the home page, which still needs an improved color design, and will hopefully get it later. (I really want to get students to do this so they have a real-world web-design project under their belts, with credit. I’ll probably leave it this boring and ugly and invite Any Teen in the Flat World to flex their skills with a make-over.)

And here’s the new “World-Changing Students” feature page, for Those Who, I Pray, Get Involved. It features some of my Korean students.

So that’s the end of Chapter 5 - 222 pages. Chapter 6 is Tables, Chapter 7 is forms, Chapter 8 is finding a good host, and Chapter 9? It looks very interesting: how to hack Blogger’s blog template to add a blog to your website. Chapter 10 is “Pimping Your Site” with free stuff, and Chapter 11 says, in essence, “Now go learn Java, php, mysql.”