Chipping the web: November 20th

I completely agree with you Sterling. It’s like the web design project I just took on. The client gave me a list of six sites that they liked the layout on and asked me if I could do something similar. The first thing I did was look at the code used by the other sites (I was horrified to find out it used tables). Part of what I really wanted to recreate (because I could easily recreate the tabular layout using divs) was the menu. At first I was going to use the same program that the other designer used (basically googling for the first answer). When that wasn’t viable (horrid crippleware, you can design but not compile the code) I sought out an alternative solution (CSS popup/out menu). After about 2 hours of googling, and going through code examples, I finally found what I was looking for (turns out my HTML editor had a CSS menu creator as part of the program, hehe). It wasn’t easy but in the end I was able to turn out good, compliant code that works in all the CSS capable browsers I was able to test them in. I may not be the absolute greatest web designer but I feel like that what I am able to do, I do well.

Sorry for the ramble.