Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Modern
Bernie Mac
I just wanted to take a quick second here during my lunch break to say that over the past few days, I've brought my blog into 2009 in a ton of ways. Not like a lot of people show up here, but it's still fun working on HTML/CSS/JS. The fun thing to realize when looking at web pages is even the simplest looking ones (maybe like this one?) are often running a lot under the hood.
If you have Firefox, go to View->Page Style->No Style. If you know anything about HTML, you'll see that the entire page is designed through CSS. Little things like what I'm listening to in each post went from 3-4 lines of code down to half a line of code. Now on all pages but the main page, there are little breadcrumb buttons to help navigate in the upper left hand corner via JavaScript I wrote (why doesn't Blogger provide this?).
On the right side of every page is a Flash version of my 360 gamercard, a dynamic Twitter box that updates when I do, and a labels box. Like I said, it doesn't seem like a lot is going on, but if you look at the code behind everything, it's pretty impressive for a little Blogger site that I update every other month or less, haha.
I just wanted to take a quick second here during my lunch break to say that over the past few days, I've brought my blog into 2009 in a ton of ways. Not like a lot of people show up here, but it's still fun working on HTML/CSS/JS. The fun thing to realize when looking at web pages is even the simplest looking ones (maybe like this one?) are often running a lot under the hood.
If you have Firefox, go to View->Page Style->No Style. If you know anything about HTML, you'll see that the entire page is designed through CSS. Little things like what I'm listening to in each post went from 3-4 lines of code down to half a line of code. Now on all pages but the main page, there are little breadcrumb buttons to help navigate in the upper left hand corner via JavaScript I wrote (why doesn't Blogger provide this?).
On the right side of every page is a Flash version of my 360 gamercard, a dynamic Twitter box that updates when I do, and a labels box. Like I said, it doesn't seem like a lot is going on, but if you look at the code behind everything, it's pretty impressive for a little Blogger site that I update every other month or less, haha.
Labels: blog, web design
