Adventures in Web Design: CAT274

My OLA buildout is up here:

http://bcts-potomac.aacc.edu/cat/cat13/aacc_ola_comp/ola/ola-home.html

overall, I’m pretty pleased with it so far. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to implement the horizontal rules, and properly formatting the professor information in the sidebar is proving to be something of a challenge. I have to hand-code the header tag to keep all of the text in the sidebar from switching to a header, and when i do, it spaces out the header from the rest of the text a lot more than I’d like. I’m impressed with how well the DIVs worked out though. I think I’m getting a hang of this.

The reading this week involves CSS as well. I have to say, though that I don’t think any of the reading was nearly as informative as one trip to the CSS Zen Garden.  It’s really impressive to see CSS in action at the hands of professionals.  I’ve been looking at all of the different layouts and trying to figure out how they set up their DIVs and how they kept their spacing consistent.

The CSS Zen Garden can be found at:

http://www.csszengarden.com/

other reading includes:

Understanding CSS http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/understanding_css.html

CSS Page Layout Basics http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/css_page_layout_basics.html

The Difference Between ID and Class http://css-tricks.com/the-difference-between-id-and-class/