After a crazy week or so I finally found some time to get to the computer lab with my Dreamweaver 4 for Dummies book and try to translate it to CS3. So far the translation's been pretty easy.
I tried to change the page size, but I can't tell if it actually changed anything.
Then I learned how to put the date and time on a page. I don't know if I'd ever use that on a web page... I guess I just don't see the point on anything other than a blog maybe. Well, I guess you could put "last update: [date]" on your page if you wanted to.
In order to play with text I put a simple nav. bar on top (Home About Us Contact Us Blog Shopping Cart Wishlist). I didn't want to change the format because we were talking about how people make things headers that really aren't headers and they shouldn't do that. I don't really understand why, to be honest. Anyhow, I didn't want to mess with that, so I just played with font, colour, size, and alignment, which might be just as bad, but I don't really know. I made the nav bar text into it's own style.
I played with the page properties. I added a background image. That was terrible. I couldn't read any of the text. I did find an image that wasn't as bad. I kept it for the time being, but I probably wouldn't use one on my own site.
I'm kind of curious to know what a tracing image is and how it works.
I made a table and filled it with images and it looked pretty good in dreamweaver, but as soon as I tried to preview it, it said only the image names where the picture should have been. I tried saving the page to my i-pod (in lieu of a thumb-drive), where the images were saved, but then it couldn't find my page. But it's too late for me to go crazy over it. It's getting late. I'll see if I can get it to work tomorrow, or I'll just start fresh since it was really just an experiment today anyway.
I tried to change the page size, but I can't tell if it actually changed anything.
Then I learned how to put the date and time on a page. I don't know if I'd ever use that on a web page... I guess I just don't see the point on anything other than a blog maybe. Well, I guess you could put "last update: [date]" on your page if you wanted to.
In order to play with text I put a simple nav. bar on top (Home About Us Contact Us Blog Shopping Cart Wishlist). I didn't want to change the format because we were talking about how people make things headers that really aren't headers and they shouldn't do that. I don't really understand why, to be honest. Anyhow, I didn't want to mess with that, so I just played with font, colour, size, and alignment, which might be just as bad, but I don't really know. I made the nav bar text into it's own style.
I played with the page properties. I added a background image. That was terrible. I couldn't read any of the text. I did find an image that wasn't as bad. I kept it for the time being, but I probably wouldn't use one on my own site.
I'm kind of curious to know what a tracing image is and how it works.
I made a table and filled it with images and it looked pretty good in dreamweaver, but as soon as I tried to preview it, it said only the image names where the picture should have been. I tried saving the page to my i-pod (in lieu of a thumb-drive), where the images were saved, but then it couldn't find my page. But it's too late for me to go crazy over it. It's getting late. I'll see if I can get it to work tomorrow, or I'll just start fresh since it was really just an experiment today anyway.
1 comment:
I really, really love the colors of your blog. They're really pleasing to the eye, nothing is too garrish and everything seems to fit with the next thing. I also love that you used justification of your text on this entry! :) I guess I'm not the only one who appreciates neatness. I think you should do that for all of the entries... it makes it look boxy and spaced really nicely. Your layout wins for awesome simplicity in action. I would suggest adding some content to the sidebar, too! Some of your fave links, a little about yourself... something like that.
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