It's harder to ignore now
In the interest of personalizing this staid site template, I added a little DHTML to the mix, showing off some of the pics from my photoblog.
The code is courtesy of Andrew and Dynamic Drive DHTML.
It took FOREVER to code, because I'm on dialup at the moment, and each little page preview took about a minute to load. Using the guess and check method of HTML coding doesn't help matters either.
This is why I didn't follow through with the CS major. I'm a sloppy coder.
The DHTML itself was problematic too. You could set sizes for the thumbnail sized pics, but I have a sneaking suspicion that there's no way to constrain the larger version (seen in my right toolbar) via the code itself. So that required a little photochopping.
Still I think it looks good, though the font sizes for the heading and subheading get smaller between preview time and publish time. I can't figure out why--must be a conflicting bit of CSS. If anyone has an extra hour or two, get on that for me will ya?
Aside from the aesthetic, I want some honest criticism on my picture taking.
Have at it.
posted by Luke @ 11:53 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
You were my inspiration.
Luke,
You should make sure that a picture gets set by default instead of having the blank space on the right until one of the thumbnails is hovered over (wow, try reorganizing that sentence so it doesn't end with a preposition. I dare you).
Also, you should be aware that the George Lucas Return of the Jedi-style pan-wipe doesn't work on Firefox.
Looks nice, though. Good work. When I have more time in a day or two, I can help you look for CSS bugs.
--Mike Sheffler
I'm trying to figure out how to do that mike, I'll get back to you, I think the first picture works nicely with the scheme of the rest of the page.
I appreciate your offer of help, my CSS knowledge doesn't go much past "onmouseover".
I can't get that pic to display on page load, I'm thinking I'm just going to have to code it into the background or something . . . annoying.
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