CSS Zen Garden project

I have finished my csszengarden assignment and have submitted it to the site for acceptance/rejection. I had a lot of fun with this assignment but it was a bit frustrating as well. The formatting was my biggest issue but I feel that I've made some positive strides in that area. What I liked is that I went with a less "zen-like" design and went for the more "in-your-face" design. I used a graffiti theme and played around with different designs in that area. My first attempt was a brick wall with painted content, but the brick wall was too overwhelming. I then broke the wall into pieces and that worked much better visually. I adjusted images and such to keep them small and the page loads quickly. It also validates. This may have been the assignment that I feel I learned the most from, but it also made me realize how much I have to learn. There were some GREAT designs submitted in my class that shows even more clearly the power of understanding CSS as well as knowing how to apply it to make a page do exactly what you are looking for. We are now working on a group project that is targeted towards other AI students and then later can be used by the public at large, if they were so inclined. I'll be adding more on that once we have made additional progress.

week 5

have continued working on csszengarden submission. It has been fun playing with but a ton of work. Even creating the images was a bit time consuming. However, I'm happy with the idea that I came up with and am now working on actual structure. The page is almost ready and I'll be posting again upon completion.

week 4

This week we had a couple of assignments to work on. We read about grids in design and redesigned the page that we had been working on, but by applying an underlying grid to the layout. I liked playing with the CSS to get different results but have run into some difficulties. I'd like to be able to set up a 2-column page that is fluid to fit around whatever content you include. The smallest column would govern the size of the other column and then the larger column would have a slider for the remainder of the content. However, I wanted to stay away from fixed sizes so that you would have a template that would wrap around your content with minimal editing. It appears that you have to have a fixed size for this but I am looking further into this.

I've also begun work on an assignment to submit a CSS sheet to CSS ZenGarden as a mid-term assignment. This will be a difficult assignment that I'm curious how I'll do on it. I've started by looking at some of the samples that have been accepted already to get a base idea of how to approach my proposal. The plan is to have some fun with it even though this will be the most difficult assignment to date.

On a personal note, I'm just back from vacation and had a GREAT time!