Monday, July 25, 2005

CSS Website

Yay I'm becoming more frequent with this blogging... anyhow some of you have noticed how some nights I'm awake until 2am->3am... and only once it was because of a game :) But I've actually been reading up on this CSS and took a plunge into it to work on my general business website.

Anyhow, here's the link: http://www.jlrstudios.com

Things accomplished:
- Layout is complete CSS using mostly absolute positioning
- Side menu is complete CSS
- Main menu roll over effect is CSS (no image swapping)

Still need to do:
- Spice up front page... it's not all going to be text and definitely not that much text, that's just to test to make sure the text will go over the orange in case... but overall, the site's content will never extend beyond the bottom border.
- Implement IFrames for external scripts

I ran a Website Speed Report and so far the website is reporting:
Images: 34.89KB
HTML: 2.1KB
Download @ 56k: 7.39seconds
Download @ 128k: 2.2seconds

Once the site is completed, I'm estimating about a 10sec download on 56k and a 3sec download on 128k... of course that's only the first load without the browser doing any caching.

And for the first time, the website looked right the first time I loaded in IE after getting it looking right in Firefox.

PS. This is probably my first full CSS website.

I've also been working on my school's Latino Exchange organization's website. I've been their webmaster for the past two years and I just think my last design sucked, so here I go redesigning :) And for one of the few times in awhile, I'm actually somewhat happy with the logo I've put together for the temp page :) The temp page is also CSS :)

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