As promised last week, I worked out the basics of Matthew's fixed width layout. Most of the changes are in the CSS.
I am not going to cover the complete code since that was covered in in the other post. If you're coding from scratch, you may want to refer to that post first.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
The True Holy Grail of Web Layouts
I'm way over two years old on this, but I stopped doing Web development before the following was posted. Last time I touched anything Web related at work that wasn't related to content management, I was working on a liquid layout prototype. All the research I did back then refered to workarounds and hacks in order to make it work on all browsers.
In 2007, Matthew James Taylor posted something on his Website that changed the way Web Developers and Web Designers approached the development of layouts. He came up with a truly pure liquid layout that worked perfectly on all browsers, used no hacks nor workarounds, and was XHTML valid.
As an exercise in diving back into Web development, I decided to code his Perfect Liquid Layout (Holy Grail) from scratch. The following is nothing really advanced, but a great refresher.
In 2007, Matthew James Taylor posted something on his Website that changed the way Web Developers and Web Designers approached the development of layouts. He came up with a truly pure liquid layout that worked perfectly on all browsers, used no hacks nor workarounds, and was XHTML valid.
As an exercise in diving back into Web development, I decided to code his Perfect Liquid Layout (Holy Grail) from scratch. The following is nothing really advanced, but a great refresher.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Not All Prisons Have Bars
Last night I went to bed early. I was proud of myself (I'm lacking a lot of sleep) until an inspiration flux woke me up in the middle of the night. I had to write, I had to design...
Here's the first piece. The one that woke me up.
Here's the first piece. The one that woke me up.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Tweaked Again
Don't you just love when the titles I use sound strange or bad without context?
I tweaked the blog template again. The box at the bottom of each post had a solid background that made it way too bold against the rest of the design. Background removed, border-top added.
I tweaked the blog template again. The box at the bottom of each post had a solid background that made it way too bold against the rest of the design. Background removed, border-top added.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Majestic Spirit
Out of the blue, I pulled a new composition (photo-manipulation).
I was vaguely inspired after staring at the cover art of [PS3] Resistance: Fall of Man. I didn't want to do something in the same style, but I wanted the dirty/grunge treatment in a landscape photo-manipulation. While working on it, the piece changed style entirely. What was supposed to be a dead/static piece somehow ended up with a life of its own.
Time for me to go out and shovel the doorway again. Damn snowstorms...
I was vaguely inspired after staring at the cover art of [PS3] Resistance: Fall of Man. I didn't want to do something in the same style, but I wanted the dirty/grunge treatment in a landscape photo-manipulation. While working on it, the piece changed style entirely. What was supposed to be a dead/static piece somehow ended up with a life of its own.
Time for me to go out and shovel the doorway again. Damn snowstorms...
