May 29 2009
And Being Standards-Compliant
First things first. This website now validates for both CSS 2.1 and XHTML 1.0 Strict. That took quite a bit of scrubbing of my previous markup of silly things I did, like not nesting input elements within a block-level element or having improper markup for ampersands in the HTML (like using & instead of the correct &). Most of the errors in my markup were very minor and most can be attributed to the Twitter and Flickr widgets I was using. My CSS was nearly spotless except for a single error, my defining the list-style-type with an erroneous value of bullet as oppose to the correct disc.
I got so giddy in excitement that I walked down to Isaac’s room to announce to him that my blog’s CSS and HTML markup validates. But apparently, there are other things I can still do to make my website even more kick-ass in the back-end.
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May 14 2009
The Redesign of aheram.com
After four weeks and more than a hundred hours poring over code, reading various documentation, navigating help forums, editing content, and making a lot of mistakes along the way, the website project that is aheram.com is finally complete.
My website’s old design was something I was proud of. It was clean, it was readable, and it did what I intended it to do. The only problem was that it was completely static. I attempted to rectify that by utilizing MagpieRSS to parse feeds from my blogs onto my static index.htm to create an appearance of dynamic content. But beyond that, it lacked the functionality that I needed.
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Apr 22 2008
Adventures in Web Design
After working for five incredibly long days and producing several pages of code revisions, an updated version of Creativist Pursuits went live early Monday morning. It is nearly identical to its previous incarnation, but this time it has dynamic content.
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Mar 23 2008
Adventures in Web Design
Design by Jayel Aheram.
The redesign of Cat’s Eye was very straight-forward once I made the decision to make the photography the lone and focal point of the design. The new design possesses a simple black-and-gray background that do not distract from the photographs I choose to exhibit. The three column layout I adopted is not as rigid as it seems. Compared to last design, I can display as many photographs and content as I can if I so choose.
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