daKitty - more stuff

#1

Good morning,

I cleaned up my test page from yesterday. Visually it looks exactly the
same, but it degrades very nicely with CSS off and the comments are much
better.

http://hall.j.m.home.att.net/samples/layout2.html

The new layout actually looks very clean in my editor as well - a
surprising bonus.

--
Farlo
Urban Fey Dragon
"Imperial" States of America
(The Land of Confusion)

#2

thanks

Interesting.

I'm curious, why is the first sentence all in caps?
That little thing kind of sits like a bone in my throat, considering just
typography.
Are you mimicking something?

In a 'freeform' I'd maybe put the first word in caps...

"Farlo" <hall.j.m (AT) att (DOT) net> wrote

Quote:

Good morning,

I cleaned up my test page from yesterday. Visually it looks exactly the
same, but it degrades very nicely with CSS off and the comments are much
better.

http://hall.j.m.home.att.net/samples/layout2.html

The new layout actually looks very clean in my editor as well - a
surprising bonus.

--
Farlo
Urban Fey Dragon
"Imperial" States of America
(The Land of Confusion)

#3

"DaKitty" <Imgonna.com (AT) something (DOT) net> wrote:

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I'm curious, why is the first sentence all in caps?
.....
Are you mimicking something?

Yes, the layout is almost straight out of the last issue of TIME
Magazine, with some adaptations for media. I was going to dupe "Popular
Mechanics", but like I said before, they do some things that do not adapt
as nicely to a web page.

*shrug* It's not original, but I like it.

Maybe I'll grab ahold of National Geographic next ...

Quote:

In a 'freeform' I'd maybe put the first word in caps...

Yes, you are right, that would look much better.

--
Farlo
Urban Fey Dragon
"Imperial" States of America
(The Land of Confusion)

#4

"Farlo" <hall.j.m (AT) att (DOT) net> wrote

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"DaKitty" <Imgonna.com (AT) something (DOT) net> wrote:

I'm curious, why is the first sentence all in caps?
....
Are you mimicking something?

Yes, the layout is almost straight out of the last issue of TIME
Magazine, with some adaptations for media. I was going to dupe "Popular
Mechanics", but like I said before, they do some things that do not adapt
as nicely to a web page.

*shrug* It's not original, but I like it.

Maybe I'll grab ahold of National Geographic next ...

In a 'freeform' I'd maybe put the first word in caps...

Yes, you are right, that would look much better.

so, how come you do those? is it a coding practice?

#5

"DaKitty" <Imgonna.com (AT) something (DOT) net> wrote:

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so, how come you do those? is it a coding practice?

Yes! Practice for both coding and layout.

I get to see how a pro does it in print, and gain practical experience
adapting it to the web. Plus, now I have a template for one
"professional" layout - which of course I will adapt and modify until I
like it even better.

Why should I reinvent the wheel, when the work of scores of excellent
designers leaps at me from every printed page, every picture, every box
.... ?

That's the idea, anyways.

--
Farlo
Urban Fey Dragon
"Imperial" States of America
(The Land of Confusion)

#6

"DaKitty" <Imgonna.com (AT) something (DOT) net> wrote:

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I do civil engineering 8-5, or had been for years, I'm code-exhausted

I had my fill of numbers and program loops for a while.

Do you do any drawing? It just occured to me that a side benefit of your
career might be some hefty drafting/drawing skills ...

--
Farlo
Urban Fey Dragon
"Imperial" States of America
(The Land of Confusion)

#7

"Farlo" <hall.j.m (AT) att (DOT) net> wrote

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"DaKitty" <Imgonna.com (AT) something (DOT) net> wrote:

I do civil engineering 8-5, or had been for years, I'm code-exhausted

I had my fill of numbers and program loops for a while.

Do you do any drawing? It just occured to me that a side benefit of your
career might be some hefty drafting/drawing skills ...

Yea, I do all kinds of drawing. I'm an artsy fartsy kind of a nut

Definitely drafting, hand or cad.

Photoshop, flash, any graphics program, really...
I LOVE 3D stuff.
I'm good with 3D modeling, cause I've been using cad, AutoCAD since it was
v. 2.6 (1988).

Got something in mind

?

#8

DaKitty wrote:

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I LOVE 3D stuff.

I did some 3D animation with Studio Max at college - absolutely loved it,
but I'm not very artistic :-(

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Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au