Yeah, although I’m rather bewildered at the moment - HTML makes sense to me, CSS not so much. PHP, I can sort of understand… I’ve self-learned other languages in the past, so I guess I just need to get stuck in and get to that eureka moment where it starts making sense on its own.
Just wanted to check something with the experts and experienced folks here…
It’s been my suspicion for a while now that the banner takes up too much space on the screen - pushing the actual content down. What do you think? What, if anything, do you suggest to remedy this?
I’d probably re-render the shrimp graphic in your logo to be a little smaller to improve the dimensions of the banner somewhat.
And this is just my preference, but I’d bring the banner inside the web page border to visually tie it in with the rest of the page, maybe with a different background color. Something along the dimensions of this Autoblog header. It’ll also make your graphics look a little crisper if you can re-render the logo at a smaller size.
Thanks.
My new layout will have a vertical menu in a box at the middle left - I’m thinking that if I move the graphic to the top left corner and run the text alongside it, I may be able to make use of the space better (difficult to describe).
Funny you should mention the crispness of the graphics - I only just noticed what looks like jaggies on parts of the image - it’s not actually pixel artifacts, it’s part of the design - the red orbits have a sketchy outline - except that when scaled to this size, it’s indisinguishable from ordinary jaggies - so it needs dealing with.
There’s also a heck of a lot of wasted screen space on my current site (imposed by the previous editor) - while this does lend a clean look to any particular view, I need that space for content - so I think I’m going to be going for a broader body area
What part of CSS is throwing ya for a loop? Do you get it conceptually but don’t know how to use it in practice?
Yeah, it’s just unfamiliarity, for the most part. Unfamiliarity with the classes and their attributes.
Differences between the syntax and naming conventions vs inline styles and properties threw me at first, but I think the way to deal with that is probably not to use anything except CSS, then there is nothing to confuse me.
Struggling ever so slightly with the way it handles alignment, overlapping objects and priority (some objects seem to push others out of the way, some seem to just get stomped on).
I was going to say this is going rather well, but I just tested my layout in IE and it’s horrible. Works fine in Firefox…
Ah… If you specify a width as a percentage, IE assumes you mean a percentage of the whole page. Firefox treats it (correctly) as a percentage of the container element. Grrr.
Oh well. Fixed it, I think.
Here’s how it looks at the moment - I still have a lot of tidying up to do (lots of redundant objects in the CSS and lots of bits not used on this test page still need to be made compliant with the theme), but I like this so far:
http://atomicshrimp.com/cmsroot/index.php?s=content&p=testpage
(BTW I plan to make use of that space under the menu for featured/recent items etc)
No place for comments on your (totally kick ass) website. My favorite, the printer ink cleaning pit. Also interesting using the can o’ food as a lamp, neat.
Thank you.
BTW, that printer video earned me a fat stack of cash - it went viral on a bunch of social networking sites and technology blogs and rocketed to 170,000 views (for which I get paid $5 per 1000)