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HTML, CSS, and Positioning

Abi Rendon — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:28:40 +0000

As many may have noticed I now have a brand new layout and I’m really digging it. It didn’t come with it’s share of problems though and I’ll point them out here.

I started with the base layout, it’s called Aeros it was put together by Joe at thebuckmaster.com.

I didn’t change too much but I did make some changes that I think make this layout a cut above the original.

I started out and immediately decided to pick a new background image, I’m not saying the defaults weren’t decent but I personally couldn’t stand the blurry background. I am now using one of my favorite desktop images as my background, it’s called Coastal Sunset by nauHs.

I personally don’t like fixed width layouts either so that had to change. I adjusted the body container…

#rap {
margin:0 auto;
width:90%;
}

I also had to change the #headmenu and #header div width to 100%. to fit the new dynamic layout.

I tried to make my changes entirely in the CSS but unfortunately to make the content area fit properly I had to add a new div (all pages with this post bit), in addition to some extra CSS to use positioning.

the html… (don’t forget to close the tags)

and the CSS…

.list_postcontainer
{
float: left;
clear: left;
width: 100%;
}

Next remove the margin_bottom and width attributes from the .storywrap class and add…

margin: 0 auto 15px 35px;

Next just add the following attributes to the .datecomrap class and you should be good to go.

clear: left;
position: absolute;

I think I also adjusted the side bar to use 18% width instead of the fixed width it used to be, I personally think that dynamic layouts are the only way to go, having a fixed width just makes your design look bad or weird in other people’s browsers.

Joomla?

Abi Rendon — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:21:24 +0000

NetRiver is officially using Joomla as a CMS solution. Because of this I’m working on a way to automate installation and templating from our development team. Currently it takes me about 3 hours of modification to successfully template a Joomla install.

I’m working on a way to automate most of the process and basically get those 3 hours of my time back to put towards other things.

So far I’ve made a base SVN trunk for our Joomla installs. The trunk has a default basic template and a set of our “supported” modules. We currently have a similar setup for our Chambergate product and I’m going to be maintaining our joomla base install. Hopefully the way I’m doing it will make it easier to roll out mass updates for people and also allow us to document a set of static features.

You can check out my default install here

I Heart Chinese

Abi Rendon — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:31:26 +0000

I was recently contracted to do work for a fellow goon over at the something awful forums, so far it’s going pretty great.

The project is called “I Heart Chinese“, it’s a really neat idea. Teaching Chinese with online flash animations, it’s online learning but in a fun and easy way. So far I’ve been working on the base system, the base system is built around my own database abstraction layer working with ADODB. It’s also using the smarty template engine, no particular reason other than it helps keep the code managable.

I’ll be updating as I write more, but so far it’s hard to show any recognizable progress.

An actual layout!

Abi Rendon — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:48:15 +0000

So I’ve decided to actually make my actual site finally. I haven’t really fleshed it out but I plan to put up details regarding all my current projects and basically just talking about my life and my work as a web developer.

Nobody will be reading this for sure but I’ll make sure to keep whoever wants to know up to date with all the happenings in my travels and the problems I run into while coding my language of choice, PHP.