Sunday, May 1, 2005Fear & Loathing in HTML 4.1...
For those of you who don't know, I like to design websites. My personal website is one example of this. I have also done a couple of sites that I have been paid for. I really have considered it a career, and may still do so, once my lazy ass learns Flash.
When I first started playing around with webpages, back in 1993 when it was actually considered cool and special to have one, I learned HTML - the coding language used to make websites. As time went on, and websites evolved, I didn't. My problem is that I started using a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor to design my sites. Unfortunately I have come to the realization that I have relied on that far to much. I don't remember how to code anymore. (You can see more of what goes into a website by clicking the link on the left.)
Sure, I remember the basics. A HREF, IMG, BR, ALIGN, TR, TD, UL, yadda yadda, but HTML (and now XML) is so much more advanced than that anymore. I got so used to using my WYSIWYG editor, that I felt I wouldn't need to keep up. It's like relying on getting dinner at McDonald's and forgetting how to cook.
Well, I need to know how to cook now.
Back in 1993 I was a big name on the internets when it came to anime websites. Ewink's GROOVY Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon Site was visited by thousands.
I was big shit man. And I miss it. So in an attempt to avoid obscurity for as long as possible I have created an anime blog. But in order not to just be another blog in the wall as my friend and fellow blogger Jim Rose puts it, I need to design a great, sexy site that will make people say 'DAYUM!'. Blogger handles the hard stuff like the PHP or SQL or ASP or however the hell it turns a little text box into a website. But it's up to me to go from basic (yet nice, don't get me wrong) template to something deserving of the term FUNKDAFIED.
I dug through my closet and realized that I had abandoned my HTML books back in Illinois. I quickly phoned home and found that my book was terribly outdated...
HTML 1.2.
Ummm, we're on 4.1 now. Unacceptable. So I rushed down to Borders (I love that place) and found me a quick 4.1 reference book (the title suits me well I think). I also picked up a CSS book. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets - or how the site will look; the colors, the layout; more or less the visual blueprint for the site, while the HTML could be considered the architectural blueprint. CSS is what you see in the referenced picture above.
So, hopefully over the next few weeks I can keep off of Eve and get my ass to work. Because, as silly as it might sound, I think obscurity would be a fate worse than death for me.
((You can track my progress at my anime blog, but you probably won't see any changes for a few days.))
When I first started playing around with webpages, back in 1993 when it was actually considered cool and special to have one, I learned HTML - the coding language used to make websites. As time went on, and websites evolved, I didn't. My problem is that I started using a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor to design my sites. Unfortunately I have come to the realization that I have relied on that far to much. I don't remember how to code anymore. (You can see more of what goes into a website by clicking the link on the left.)Sure, I remember the basics. A HREF, IMG, BR, ALIGN, TR, TD, UL, yadda yadda, but HTML (and now XML) is so much more advanced than that anymore. I got so used to using my WYSIWYG editor, that I felt I wouldn't need to keep up. It's like relying on getting dinner at McDonald's and forgetting how to cook.
Well, I need to know how to cook now.
Back in 1993 I was a big name on the internets when it came to anime websites. Ewink's GROOVY Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon Site was visited by thousands.
I was big shit man. And I miss it. So in an attempt to avoid obscurity for as long as possible I have created an anime blog. But in order not to just be another blog in the wall as my friend and fellow blogger Jim Rose puts it, I need to design a great, sexy site that will make people say 'DAYUM!'. Blogger handles the hard stuff like the PHP or SQL or ASP or however the hell it turns a little text box into a website. But it's up to me to go from basic (yet nice, don't get me wrong) template to something deserving of the term FUNKDAFIED. I dug through my closet and realized that I had abandoned my HTML books back in Illinois. I quickly phoned home and found that my book was terribly outdated...
HTML 1.2.
Ummm, we're on 4.1 now. Unacceptable. So I rushed down to Borders (I love that place) and found me a quick 4.1 reference book (the title suits me well I think). I also picked up a CSS book. CSS is Cascading Style Sheets - or how the site will look; the colors, the layout; more or less the visual blueprint for the site, while the HTML could be considered the architectural blueprint. CSS is what you see in the referenced picture above.So, hopefully over the next few weeks I can keep off of Eve and get my ass to work. Because, as silly as it might sound, I think obscurity would be a fate worse than death for me.
((You can track my progress at my anime blog, but you probably won't see any changes for a few days.))
posted by ewink at 7:10 PM
ewink's FUNKDAFIED Ranma 1/2 Site
1 Comments:
Can you teach a "class over the net" like all the colleges do now?
The Colonel
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