It was originally titled “Fuck You Footer Bar, Get Down!” I’ve been racking my brain over the fact that when content doesn’t take the full page, the footer bar won’t go down to the bottom. Google tried to help but I ended up with mixed results. Sometimes it would stay down with no content, but when there is content it would stay in the middle of the page. But you know what? Screw it, I’m done with the layout.
The layout is much more complicated than originally planned but much more simple than the planned final was going to be. At first, it was simply a black and white with no image. Now, it’s a little more than that but with less than I saw for the final.
CSS is a bitch. So is PHP. So is coding anything ever. I thought it was going to be easy peasy. I’ve made some HTML websites in the past with Microsoft FrontPage. I’ve dabbled with some basic HTML and iframes with Blogger. I’ve done a simple CSS design with my MySpace account. None of that compared to making my own website from practically scratch (with help from WordPress). I first had to learn all about PHP and tags since it’s not nearly as easy as Blogger designs. Then I had to figure out how to position divs because with MySpace, I just z-indexed everything, and with Blogger… I don’t even know. But I couldn’t do that anymore with dynamic content.
I do admit I was enjoying myself until the footer problem. I just couldn’t figure it out. Something tells me that it would have to do with all the absolute positionings and div within div within div. My code isn’t exactly a clean one which is probably the one thing I really need to work on when it comes to design… It does the job well enough though.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to develop my own website without the help of WordPress. Granted, I would love to create my own CMS but I can’t begin to fathom what steps I’d need to go through. So much for becoming the self-taught web designer. I can barely get my own site up.
Speaking of getting a website up, there’s a lot I still don’t know. Fact that I got to this point is amazing. Gotta love the one-click wordpress install. Still oblivious on servers, MySQL, and whatever other options I spotted but didn’t want to touch. I created so many passwords to various things that said I needed a password that I’m not sure what the password is to some things anymore.
