I deleted the Wordpress sidebar, but I decided that I did want some stuff there.
A few days ago, I wrote my own mini links dropdown (click Links to see them).
Then I got the code for a weather box from weather.com.
Now I’m trying to scrape the dining menu from HUDS. This is harder than I expected. Damn HUDS, why can’t they set up an RSS feed? So Web 1.0.
Didn’t do much today besides the standard bicycle ride, but last night:
I suppose it wasn’t too hard, but all that time put in and the website…looks the same! Backend changes are mainly for personal satisfaction (and a little bit of optimization).
I’ve been working on this for a while (read: few weeks), and I’m excited that it just got publicly announced (to the Harvard senior class of course).
Here’s the link: http://harvard09.com
After finishing a redesign of the website, I decided to transfer my theme to a Joomla! CMS so that other people could easily make changes to the site content. This basically required a reimplementation of everything I had done already. But it also allowed me to take advantage of more advanced components, modules, and plugins that have been designed for Joomla! I unveil it to the senior class committee on Thursday – I hope it find and fix any last remaining bugs before then!
I’ve been working on the Harvard senior class website for a few days now, not doing much else besides eating and sleeping. It’s not that websites are terribly difficult to build – writing up a clean CSS is rather easy, once the quirks of Internet Explorer browser compatibility are worked out.
The design, however, is the hard part. Coming up with a sleek, novel design requires a lot of time for me, and I know that I’ve spent hours moving a couple lines around, trying to make the page look good. I spent a lot of time last night making a new theme that I’ve decided not to use. Good learning experience? Perhaps. Waste of time? Sure feels like it.
I went back to my third design for the site, and it’s in my Projects page. I still feel that it’s a little bit off, but I’m not sure what to do. I think I’ll let it stay as is. After all, content is more important than beauty, right?
This is my first new post on my hosted wordpress blog. My website is now entirely hosted by dreamhost, including the blog, which was previously a free-hosted wordpress.com blog. The transfer process was pretty simple, and the theme integration was straightforward, since this is the second time I am doing it.
Overall, a success!
I’ve been working on some websites lately, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how efficient <div /> is compared to <table />. In the example below, my home page condensed from over 80 lines of code to a mere 29. Of course, this was aided by better use of CSS, but I feel that it was easier to use CSS once I had divs in. There are some things that table do better though, and for me it is the vertical-text align. Trying to center align some text vertically involves creating multiple nested divs, alignment of the first inner div to 50% of the outer div, and then alignment of the second inner div to go up 50% of the text! Nonetheless, it’s a sacrifice worth making. See below for before and after screen shots.
Before: Tables, 80+ lines of code
After: divs, 29 lines of code
In theory, I suppose I could discount the meta tags to get an even lower line count.
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