Haha, yeah, ya caught me working, but I'm doing design crap right now, and I would rather jump off a bridge most of the time, so CSS is a good relief. But yeah, I searched for a long time using things like "columns to the end of the page" and other dead ends, and ended up doing hte right combination of equal and columns to nail down a ton of resources the first time I ran into this. If you keep on top of blogs too, you'll probably see solutions you dont need now but refer to later, thats how I found Faux Columns with A List Apart. I had saved the feed article at some point and came back later to it. I'm not a big fan of Faux Columns, but nothing really plays nice like that does in all browsers. Your definitely going down the right path. Do all the hard impossible stuff thats fun for you on your own page where you can make mistakes and play, and do what the client wants the rest of the time. You'll just keep adding to your bag of tricks and rounding out your experience till you feel like you can do anything a designer throws at you. Cheers man, good work on the Meridian page!
posted Jul 31
In case I miss anything: ---http://veerle.duoh.com/blog/links/ (Those are chalk full of good css links) ---http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fauxcolumns/ (A great intro to the method I mentioned earlier) ---http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/css/pvii_columns/index.htm (A good discussion on whether to hack or to script the solutions for the issue your facing).
posted Jul 31
Haha, yeah, this is like, as old as css as far as problems with extending columns to the bottom of the page. The quick and easy way is to make a background image and make the Body or Wrapper element have a repeat-y background image. The harder and more complicated way I will find some tutorials for ya. They get a bit complex, not too too complex, but annoying issues none-the-less. I'll BRB with that. The terminology your looking for is Equal Height Columns.
posted Jul 31
Man, that's one sweet page you have here.....skillz!
posted Jul 28
Awww...there's that favorite tree picture of mine up there. Profile looks great. You certainly have weathered the storm over the last year...stay strong, friend.
posted Jul 28
hey thanks for the comment m8! I'm glad you liked the layout, although I'm a bit sore it doesn't look good out of firefox or safari (haven't tried opera yet). If you need any info on the layout, don't hesitate to ask keep on rockin!
posted Jul 26
Good job man. Works like a charm in FF. Give it a check through in IE6, I've got a feeling its not gonna work properly. To fire off your stars, your using the :hover property correct? In IE6, the :hover selector is only going to work on an anchor tag [a href="#"]. You can do the same thing your doing now, just move it all to the anchor tags and you'll get it across all the browsers. And again, way to go on catching it yourself. Once you start thinking about every element as a layer or container with other layers or containers inside, you'll seriously start to be able to harness CSS while keeping your xhtml ultra light. Anyways, way to go man!
posted Jul 26
Hey man, good lookin out, every now and then I get buried under a contract and never get the chance to come up for air, lol. Contract is coming to a close and I'm just that eager to get back to helping out and coding again, lol. So your culprit with the padding is going to be, well, not using plain old padding, haha. Instead of text-indent (that only affects the first line of text) go for padding: 0 0 0 65px; or whatever works best for you. No, as far as that animation goes, I think you just need to swap the background gifs out. Make two of them, one in a still state, one in an animation, and on hover, swap it to animated, normal state keep it at the still state. Not sure how cross browser that is, but if the browser doesn't like it, it will degrade nicely and just keep the star still. So for the main issue though, drop the text-indent your using for your span elements, and rock the padding. Totally diggin the new layout by the way. And thanks about the beard, haha. Been tryin it for awhile now and as long as I dont jack up the chin strap part, it works well, haha. Take care man, hit me up with any other issues you have.
posted Jul 24
With photoshop finally on my new laptop, I've decided to create a new design for my profile. So back to the default until it is up.
posted Jul 19
great profile ! i am very impressed ! bravo ! encore !
posted Jul 18
Whoa...haven't checked in with you in awhile. This profile design is amazing! (but then...i'm really just a pirate at heart...so OF COURSE, I'd love it) :-)
posted Jul 8
haven't heard from you in a while, hope all is well!
posted Jun 4
Haha, you put way too much faith in my CSS, I'm thinking you just haven't found the all stars out there yet ;). But thanks, regardless! Means alot, I put too much time in the presentation of that CSS alone, lol. I'm totally digging the map stuff by the way. Very Pirate's!
posted Jun 1
hey man, ultimately what your describing to me is that your trying to change the link text once you get down to the nitty gritty of it. Unfortunately you cant really do that. From what it sounds like, you want to have the link text there, but to say what you want it to say. Now you could fake it, with images, and still have the underline, but if you were to put the image of text with the underline, you would be able to tell if it was an image or not anyway because system text looks different between operating systems (if you cut an image of windows text to fake, on my mac, it'll look like I have a small piece of windows text all of a sudden, not to mention the fact that nobody could select the text). So without css3 being around, its an impossible feat =/ sorry man. Generally, accessibility wise, thats a bad thing to do anyway, it would be changing content, and css is all about changing presentation only, so your screen readers and search engines wont read one thing while your css is telling it to be another thing. Basically your limited to changing link text out with images, and hiding the text, or changing the link styling to look differently, but content can't really be changed, and for good reason. As far as my job stuff goes, I definitely did, I'm back out into the freelancing / contracting world again. I forgot how much fun it is, lol. I'm actually full time for the next couple months doing UI Design for People Click. I've been charged with the responsibility of bringing their messy, programmer designed application up to speed with a good looking, but easy to use interface. It's a blast man, lol. Good luck with your profile changes, looks cool so far, but unless you or someone else knows some wizardry that I don't (and thats likely) I don't think your able to get the text to still be text and change it with CSS. Take care! Ken
posted May 31
thesonisshining says:
I love that font. I used that font awhile ago for a friends CD cover art I worked on.
posted Jan 21