Website finished

Well today is hand in day and I think the website is finished.
It has been a pretty cool assignment to do and I have enjoyed it. I think it has been really good in the sense that last year I began learning about CSS in John's Tutorial classes and this year doing Digital 4 I have been able to develop on that knowledge and I feel as though I am starting to get the whole CSS layout thing which is cool.
I think the website came out alright there are a number of issues mainly just the index page sometimes when it loads the slide menu at the bottom stuff up which is not so cool and I am working on a mac so I can't test the website in IE and I dont have fire fox so testing in that hasn't been that often only at times at tech. Other than that tho I quite like it and with some further development(mainly just content layout with images) I think it would look quite nice. Also while I remember I couldn't figure how to get the main content section of the site to stretch while holding the footer in the correct place so each separate page has had to be given a different style with hight for that box which is a little bit silly cos it should stretch but I guess it is something I need to work at getting right in my next website or when this one is done being marked.

here is the working version online.
TNC

And I will hand in a USB with all the files on to John today.

Website Pretty much finalized and these are the options

So I have been playing around with having a sidebar navigation and what that would look like on the layout and I have also been trying to find a beeter way of displaying the support and events.
So herre are some links to different examples.

http://www.arctosdesign.com/rudadub/index.html
http://www.arctosdesign.com/rudadub/template.html
http://www.arctosdesign.com/rudadub/template2.html
http://www.arctosdesign.com/rudadub/template3.html
http://www.arctosdesign.com/rudadub/menu_test.html
http://www.arctosdesign.com/rudadub/about2.html

Navigation Menu

So today I have been experimenting with navigation menus. I have moved the navigation menu to the side of the content instead of it being above it like John suggested. And I have been playing around with other menu styles that will add effect to the page just because I am aware that it is a you site therefor needs to have a few bells and whistles that look impressive(well atlast for my skill level appear impressive). So searching the web I found a few potential scripts and examples along the lines of what I was wanting they may even be helpful to the rest of the class hence why I am putting the links here.




And this is a sweet recourse for CSS Javascript Menus.

http://www.noupe.com/ajax/13-awesome-java-script-css-menu.html

(just a good CSS resource in general)

So not sure what I will do yet I am just customizing the first one and seeing how it feels on the page.

Updated Blog

I finally had a bit of time to personalize my blog a bit. I din't Want anything complex and infact don't have time to make that either just a nice clean image that relates to me but also just looks good. And I am happy with how it is looking. I will properly still come back later on ad change text colors around a bit more add a footer image(only a small wee rudadub that when clicked takes you to the top of the page...Its getting a bit long Im finding.
I also added a slideshow with some of my work its not my favorite works or even meant to be amazing at the moment its just there so I can get a feel for the blog nd where I want to take it in the future (I would also love to know how to style the thing cos it doen't really fit in that well).

As for an update on the actually website progress. John my tutor recommended that I try play around with the navigation instead of horizontal make it vertical so I will give that a try. otherwise he said he was happy with the wor so far so I am just continuing to work away at it. I have finalized the drop down menus sorted out the problems I was having there so the overall CSS is done its just a question of styling the elements that will be introduced in the other pages. So at the moment that is what I am doing. I am creating the needed CSS for the template that will cover all the other pages as the home page is a little different having those four columns of type.

Ok well I better start my art history essay.