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.
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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