When I first set up this blog, I decided to just use one of Blogger's ready-to-use templates. I wasn't sure how much time I was going to put into it, so I didn't want to spend a ton of time creating my own template. Besides, I like pretty things but don't have a designer's eye.
I've known that I wanted to edit it into a three-column layout for a while, but never got around to it. So I sat down last night, determined to make the change. How long could it take, right? It's not like HTML's real programming. Famous last words...
It's been at least 5 years since I've done any serious web development outside of Domino. The CSS revolution has passed me by - I'm strictly a tables girl. Well, the author of this template didn't believe in tables. I know the basics of CSS; styling paragraphs and other text elements is no big deal. But absolute positioning, layers, and z-indexes are way over my head.
It took 6 hours. Yikes. Time to get a book and try to catch up, if only to say that I can.
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Not bad at all for a table girl. Not bad at all. There is one thing to change, though, for the sake of Internet Explorer, and that's to get rid of the "text-align: center" in the BODY {} selector. With it, the CSS width of the page will be about 100 pixels wider than the browser window, and you need to scroll right to see the right-hand sidebar at 1024 x 768. That may leave you with about 5 pixels of playing around to get the dots to line up properly at the edges of the left-hand sidebar in IE, but I wouldn't worry about that too much. (IE users might not be your most discerning customers. Get rid of the scrollbar and they'll never know the difference.)
Thanks for the heads-up, Stan. I don't even have IE on my machine at home (Linux). It looks pretty much the same in Firefox on any platform. I suppose I'm just as guilty as the lazy developers who only test in IE.
I'll fix it tonight.
Ah, yes... the joys of learning CSS. :) Been there, still doing that.
Email me if you need some book recommendations. :)
Thanks, Jon, although I can't really take credit for the design.
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