May 5

Written by: Dylan Barber
5/5/2009 3:24 PM 

Okay sounds like a proverb or something but when I coach kids in swimming its what you do. You tell you show them and you make them do it. One of the best ways to learn right?

So the new design is blue and has these little playdoh guys I think are neat. The blog has gotten a little bit of a work over and the other pages will get some enhancements and design elements as I get to them. The great thing is most of this design work is done with CSS. I really think that I am starting to ‘get’ it. Of course I still have a long ways to go but I have to say the 960 grid system and @nokiko’s grid program have been a big helper. I put the new skin together in less than a day. Yes its sort of simple and the menu needs some color work but I ran it through the W3C xhtml checker and it actually came back with only 2 errors. One is a DNN attribute on the form tag (don’t think I can fix that one) and the other I think has to do with a div tag inside of a span tag, again not sure what to do on this but I figure I did fairly good with a days work and a weeks study.

Check out the skin test here (http://codemypantsoff.com/SkinTest/tabid/216/Default.aspx) and you can see the validation here (http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcodemypantsoff.com%2FSkinTest%2Ftabid%2F216%2FDefault.aspx%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&accept=*%2F*&accept-language=en-us&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654).

 

I would like to better align the blog titles on this page (http://codemypantsoff.com/PantsOptional/tabid/100/Default.aspx) but that is alluding me as to how to better center them vertically in the text balloon for the little guy.

 

I would love comments and help on fixing the validation errors so I can better understand where my problems lie!