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!