4:36 PM - (no subject)
Wow... between the two classes, I'm a bit overwelmed. I've got readings, websites, and essays. I don't think I'll get as much time as I'd like on any of them. My core website design has been done since last night, but I have to generate a lot of pages and fix a lot of links to get it "clean" for peer review. Since we're dealing with usability this time, it has to have correct links. I helped Denise understand how to do some different layout elements in CSS. One issue she had was centering content. That is a tricky matter since IE5 didn't respect auto margins. The correct approach if you don't care about IE5 is to do this:
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
width: (some value here)
Of course this only solves horizontal positioning. Vertical centering is a nightmare. There should have been a method in CSS 1 or CSS 2 to easily horizontally center something. The W3 proposes centering by treating a block level element as a td. I think that is lame. We shouldn't use table layouts, but we have to for vertical layouts in a simulated way? Its a hack.
You're asking yourself how I can rant about this when there is work to be done. I'm waitning for 27 pages to print on my slow, lowend printer and unfortunetely its hooked up to WIndows this semester. I could do more with the websites. Perhaps I will.