mrxak's Assorted Webspace is announcing the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
power cinema cd-keyI used to use JavaScript to make the cool little sidebar link thingies on my site (and you can still see it here), but I decided that my life would be much easier without it. I'm now using CSS to better manage my various sites and have interesting special effects. Not everything is quite yet how I'd like it, but at least most of the pages have been updated.
There are a few other changes, which you can read about on the main page of mrxak's Assorted Webspace.
Enjoy!
Posted by mrxak at February 28, 2004 12:00 AMWhere did you learn CSS? I'd like to learn myself.
Posted by: Stardog at February 28, 2004 04:09 AMWoo! CSS! Good for you. Now go validate yourself [http://www.w3.org/]. As for learning CSS, try HTML Goodies [http://www.htmlgoodies.com/]. 'twas recommended to me by the emporer himself... err, I think.
Oh, and I'd just like to note that it is possible to achieve the effects you got with JavaScript with CSS, as well. So ha.
Posted by: phantompenguin at February 28, 2004 09:40 AMFor learning CSS, I find [http://www.htmldog.com] HTML Dog much more useful than HTML Goodies. Amazingly useful, in fact; so much that I wish I'd known of its existence when I was learning the stuff myself! Other things with might come in handy:
- [http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/properties.html] Basic CSS properties reference
- [http://www.westciv.com/style_master/academy/positioning_tutorial/">CSS positioning tutorial
- [http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/box_lesson/boxes.html] Box model examples
- [http://www.alistapart.com] A List Apart: Design magaziney thing
- [http://www.csszengarden.com] Inspiration
I'm also working on my own guide-type thing: you can check out what I have so far here: www.squibix.net/dan/web-tutorial/. I haven't written much on CSS specifically yet, but I do have a walkthough on making a page using XHTML and CSS.
And phantompenguin is right, you can indeed do that menu effect using only CSS. Easily, even!
*Ugh, no html. I wonder if html is on in my own blog's comments...
Posted by: Danny at February 29, 2004 01:33 PMUh guys, I AM using CSS to do the menu effect. The only place I'm not is for The Haiku Archive, just because I haven't gotten around to it yet.
Posted by: mrxak at February 29, 2004 05:51 PM