More CSS menus September 13, 2007

CSS menus are more tricky, and much more time consuming than they look.

My aim tonight was to get add some nice effects to the menu on my online cv (formerly known as my website). I wanted to add a ‘hover’ effect, so that the menu buttons change colour, and text is highlighted when a user points their mouse at them.

That’s going to need a little more work, as I’ll need to create some new images for this purpose next week. (And that means going up in the loft to find my copy of Photoshop, which needs reinstallation after a recent Windows reload).

For this evening, what I managed to do was to create a basic hover effect – the link text changes colour. I’ve also added some navigational items to the menu, so that users know where they are on the site – not that it’s all that difficult to get lost with only 6 pages, but it’s the principal I’m concerned about.

Curved corners cracked July 4, 2007

There is hope yet for my career in web development. The ‘curved corners using CSS’ technique is in the bag. What’s more, I’ve added a nice border round my box with curved corners.

In the end, I used the Webcredibles’ approach, though I had to adapt it slightly for my site. To get a full understanding of the issue, I found two articles on A List Apart incredibly helpful and well written: sliding doors of CSS and creating custom corners. Thanks chaps!

Thanks also to Andrew who offered me help on this.

I’m off on my holidays in a few days, but think I will spend a little more time doing some funky CSS stuff on my site, before moving on to a new subject. I’m not sure what yet, but PHP skills seem to be in demand at the moment, so I’m considering applying myself to that as a subject for the next few months.

Web work #1 May 14, 2007

It’s Monday, so it’s website night.

I’ve got the basics of my website done. Now I need to make it look nice.

Tonight I’ve been working on curved corners, which I’m planning to use in lots of ways. I found a good tutorial from the webcredibles on how to do curved corners using CSS.

Sadly, I’ve finished the night with no demonstrable evidence of curved corners on the site, so the rest is going to have to wait until next Monday. A bit frustrating.

Evenin’ May 8, 2007

No promises, but this is what I think I might write about:

• lovely food, probably cooked by Mary and me, washed down with some lovely booze
• why I hate Walker’s crisps
• my struggle to put my education to good use in the IT business
• how to wind up BT – forever
• my latest consumer campaigns
• wild and crazy music
• online gaming
• living in Bexley, which is in Kent and South-East London, strangely
• working in Lewisham (maybe)
• yogurt fights, chair racing, elephant shaped flower-beds, why mice are irresistibly attracted to me and other stories from my creatively mis-spent, but not wasted, youth.