Thursday, February 07, 2008
The Daily Daniel
Today I was working on getting a decent-looking starting page up for my portfolio. I've spent some time developing a theme, so I know what I want it to look like, but I'm still not entirely sure what is supposed to be on it.
I worked on getting a skeleton of my page up today, so I can get something accomplished while I'm trying to figure out what to put into it. I used a template I built for some earlier web pages, but of course I have to convert it. One of the problems with this is that, while I understood exactly what I was doing when I put it together, I don't remember too much of that.
This resulted in having to look up how to use CSS (or cascading style sheets for the rest of us) to set an image as a background. The effect is neat, because I can use pictures in each of my boxes if I want, but it took me some time to figure out that the scripts look for files on based on their directory, not the directory of the page that calls them.
We were "thinking aloud", which meant as long as I was working on the same task, I was flattered with the attention of people wondering what I was doing. This resulted in a pretty good conversation with Leah about CSS, although I'm not entirely sure I explained it correctly.
I'm hoping to have a better idea by next week about what in the world I'm going to put in the page.
I worked on getting a skeleton of my page up today, so I can get something accomplished while I'm trying to figure out what to put into it. I used a template I built for some earlier web pages, but of course I have to convert it. One of the problems with this is that, while I understood exactly what I was doing when I put it together, I don't remember too much of that.
This resulted in having to look up how to use CSS (or cascading style sheets for the rest of us) to set an image as a background. The effect is neat, because I can use pictures in each of my boxes if I want, but it took me some time to figure out that the scripts look for files on based on their directory, not the directory of the page that calls them.
We were "thinking aloud", which meant as long as I was working on the same task, I was flattered with the attention of people wondering what I was doing. This resulted in a pretty good conversation with Leah about CSS, although I'm not entirely sure I explained it correctly.
I'm hoping to have a better idea by next week about what in the world I'm going to put in the page.
# posted by Daniel-san @ 1:01 PM 
