Posted on Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:30 PM
I like designing webpages. I'm not the best webpage designer, but I enjoy doing it, so that's what is important.
I always used to create my design in a graphics program and then cut it up in pieces and use a table and make sure everything fits right and so on. I thought I had some nice designs, but with all the work to maintain that (whenever something changes, all images had to change too) and I just never found anything to put on my website. I'm a content-less man :D
Anyhoo, this week (I'm having a one-week holiday) I decided to create another webpage. I mean, I've been having a link to my "homepage" for quite a while in my vbCity profile, but all there was, was some design and absolutely no content. Now, I first created a new design, once again one graphic, which I was going to cut in pieces. It seemed that it wasn't that good. It was white + blue + black color scheme and there was like a huge void... I found it very empty.
After asking around, and the more I looked at the design, the more I started to think it was worthless.
So I created another one... once again an image.
This time I was quite happy. Stuart (wonkotsane) helped me picking out a font (I'm really bad at this and I wish I had his font-choosing talent :p), Dries (dries_neyrinck) helped me out with a few ideas too and finally Mark (drydo) told me about the magical box. CSS - aka Cascading Style Sheets. I had heard about them, and they were something that was "interesting", but nothing more to me. Until Mark recommended me to have a look at it.
I did, and after that I was able to "recreate" my image with HTML and CSS almost exactly as it was in the image.
I was thrilled, I must say.
I'm done with the design now. My ASP skills have joined forces with me again to, and all buttons are created in run-time. Each and every button can be added/removed very easy from each webpage using only three lines of code.
Man do I love programming!
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