Web Develoment Blog
New Site: JSU Researcher
This is a very basic site for the Jackson State University academic journal called, The Researcher. It only has limited content management, but will be hosted on JSU's website which will give it an instant boost in the search engine rankings with a .edu domain name. I went with a professional bookworm design with straightforward content. I wanted to keep it clean. Check out the site in it's development area, click here. Posted Sunday, November 4 at 11:08 AM Making Floats Fill a DivIf you've ever run into the problem of floating an image or div and the having it stick out of it's containing div then you know frustration as well as the next guy(or gal). I used to just declare a static height but that's really not the way to go and it might even be impossible if the content in that div is updated regularly. In order to make the div recognize the height of the floated element you need to place an empty div inside the container div, but beneath the floated element. Then you simply need to style that div to "clear: both". It's really that easy. I have no idea how many countless hours I spent trying to figure that out. Too many to say the least. It's especially handy when you've got multiple horizontal sections such as on my page here. Technorati ProfilePosted Sunday, September 2 at 4:21 PM This Casa is WiredYou may have noticed that even though I'm now in the first world my posting rate had fallen off their for awhile. Well, along with all of the luxuries that the first world has to offer it also comes with a lot bureaucratic crap. For instance, Comcast payed to have our apartment wired. So I call Comcast and ask for their internet service, they say that my apartment isn't in the database even though the apartment next to me is. Apparently this is because it's a brand new apartment and didn't exist before, yet somehow I feel they should know I exist since they installed the wiring... Posted Friday, August 24 at 6:45 PM A New VillagerWell, my attempt at full time freelancing has failed. It turns out you need a cushion of money to sit on while you drum up business and get things rolling. I'd planned for that somewhat but I hadn't planned on... Posted Thursday, August 23 at 7:22 PM Workaround for 100% height divsOne of the major headaches that I came across when making my transition to tableless web layout was that I would often want a graphic to repeat all the way down a page, but setting the height of a div to 100% doesn't work as you'd expect. The problem comes in when you start to scroll. The height: 100% attribute only means 100% of the initial display of the page. When you try to scroll down it cuts off the below what you can first see on the page when it loads. Essentially your div is only 768px or whatever 100% of your screen height is. I was surprised at the lack of solutions to this problem, but I've recently seen people espousing the same fix I came up with as well. Posted Monday, August 13 at 8:31 AM |
