The Whitehawk

No, I wasn’t slacking off today

I redid the entire header and made sure it displayed the same way on both IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Which was no easy thing to pull. So a part of that design is invisible because I had to find a way to discover the user agent of the browser and parse it.

But those of you who go to the test page with Opera or IE will see a second CSS file attached to it in order to fix a slight placement issue on the menu.

Normally I wouldn’t bother, but since the proper effect of the menu requires pixel-perfect precision, to match with the light-blue line of the header, I had to resort to this method. I refuse to use any CSS hacks for it, and I aim to complete this site without using any hacks at all.

I was hoping on finish styling the content tags today, but then an Opera-using friend of mine reminded me that the design was broken on it so I’ve decided to rebuild the header instead.

Since I changed the logo of the site I also decided to increase it’s width a little (right now it’s 800px) to better align the logo with the rest of content.

Depending on how that change goes and how the site ends up looking afterwards, there may or not be some more changes to the design. At this moment, I’m almost willing to scrap it all off because it went through so many changes the past few days that I get the feeling that some elements don’t fit with one another.

This is just a test post for me to style some code.

• List item 1
• List item 2
• List item 3
• List item 4

And now an ordered list

1. Testing 1
2. Testing 2
3. Testing 3
4. Testing 4

A blockquote

Even though I know it’s safe here, without my sword I cannot sleep. A friend would not just follow another’s dream… a friend would find his own reason to live…

Some code…


if (safe_here()){
echo "Without my sword I cannot sleep";
}


And finally an image

Welcome to the Live Design blog guests.

This blog will exist to serve only as a “dump” of the latest versions of the design implementation. Consider it the webdesign equivalent of the Nightly Builds of the most popular Open-Source programs like Firefox or Pidgin.

This is the way I’m planning to do this. Every day I will post a new article with the “changelog” for that same day, and those of you who want to participate or comment on those changes may post something in the comments.

The *only* thing I will be working on today is the site’s structure. I will not be integrating it with Wordpress unless I manage to do that very quickly. Before I start putting any design elements or start to integrate it with Wordpress I want to make sure that it’s transitional, and works well on as many browsers as possible.

I will be use a ready-made structure, possibly from bluerobot.com or another similar site. I think it would be a bit stupid of me to try to reinvent the wheel when dozens of designers across the globe have already spent many hours trying to find a solution for the most common design problems.

I will obviously give credit to the layout-maker somewhere on my website. And if I don’t manage to integrate it with wordpress today I will setup a very short-lived html site with the structure. I will also share any problems and problem-solvers I find throughout this whole process, so that I might give something back to everyone helping me out with this.

So I’ll see you all tonight, and once again THANK YOU VERY MUCH for coming with me on this journey.