New book, new design...
- 8th July 2005 | permanent link
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I took klaut's advice and got my hands on the book she recomended. Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook writen by Danc Cederholm. I finally realised how many things I was doing wrong. So to begin with, I have redone the entire site with the mentioned book in my hand :)
I have checked all of the sites for XHTML W3C compliancy and they all came back valid. I also decided to make the site a bit more accesible by using the Phark Method for image replacement.
/* The Phark Method */
#head h1 {
height: 62px;
width: 500px;
text-indent: -5000px;
background: url('../images/head.gif') no-repeat;
}
But as mentioned in the forementioned book, it is not the perfect solution as it fails when it encounters the "images Off/ CSS on" scenario. But after reviewing the Revised Image Replacement list of methods I decided to use Phark Method.
It was the first site I built from the markup level up. I first coded the structure of the site using XHTML elements that made sense, and after that I began to add CSS to the markup. And as far as I'm concerned it came out great. I never took the time to realise what some elements represent. Until now :)
I would like to also mention Janne, whos blog stuck with me so much, that I ended up with a very similar design. Unintentially, as you might imagine and I hope Janne won't be mad :)
I have redone the gallery, wich is now Flash based with the use of SimpleViewer. For more info please check the gallery.
All in all I think the whole thing came out damn good :) And when I'll get sick and tired of this design, I'll just pick up the book again and throw together a brand new CSS. Yes I'm a beliver too, web standards all the way :)
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