CSS (as in the coding language) is definitely in the top 3 of my private enemies. I bitch and moan about it a lot. Back when I started the adventure of web designing it was all html and embed tables were the thing. Admittedly I was about 13 at the time so it must have been circa 1998. Everything was nice, neat and easy, and it was enough to know where to read up on a certain html attribute to impress your friends.
Not any more. If it’s not flash – which I intend to stay clear of for ever more – it’s bloody CSS, and the grammar of this language makes very little sense to me. Actually the very template you’re looking at is written very very weirdly and took forever to hack about. I was getting stuck every 5 minutes and had to, while cursing heavily, ask my more CSS-literate friends to help me out.
But the unfortunate souls who can only afford to pay their web designers with beer have to resort to CSS-illiterates like me, to get things done. Enter my mum. The first of keen, who’s been a renowned journalist whole her life, these days runs a little PR/Publishing company. And you can’t have that without a website. Enter me. I took a deep breath and indulged into the CSS pain swearing in advance, because i knew it will be a long, bloody battle…
And then – it took a day and a half. Admittedly I was working on a ready template using Dreamweaver, which makes things easy peasy but the main victory is that the grammar entered my limits of understanding. And so I got where I wanted pretty quickly (time was of essence here).
This is the start product, a very nice template called deep red:
and this is the (almost) end product which is called my mum template:
eat this, CSS!
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CSS is no match for you now. I know where to look for CSS help in future. I can also provide beer to seal the deal hehe ;) The site looks great, your mum must be chuffed, well done :)
Dan added these pithy words on
Sep 18 08 at
10:05 pm