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I know this is a really really noobish thing, but I couldn’t, for the life of me, figure out how to get a couple of things centered on a website I was working on. I looked all through my copy of CSS: The Missing Manual, but it didn’t describe it anywhere. So I did some searching online and found an about.com page that said the easiest way to center something is to use margin: auto; This works great for all browsers except IE6 and below. For that I just gave the same div text-align: center; and everything was great. I don’t know why I didn’t figure it out before, but it really makes sense now. It is putting the same amount of margin on either side of it.
Ok, it is time for me to put the rubber to the road. I have just over 4 months before I get out of the Navy and I need to seriously learn more about design. Luckily I just got some books in the mail. The first one I will be reading is “The Principles of Beautiful Web Design” by Jason Beaird. I will post updates of some of what I learn. I am sure I will learn much more when I go to college, but I at least want to provide a good service to the clients I have while I am working my way through college.
It is time for a redesign. I have had the same look to my blog for about 2 years now. Time to change it. I am thinking of possibly going with a three column layout this time, but I haven’t really decided yet. I submitted my site to a couple placed for some reviews but I would also appreciate any readers who are willing to offer suggestions to do so as well. Just leave your tips in the comments and I will happily see what I can do about adding it to the design. Since I am currently deployed and stuck in the middle of the ocean, I have a bit of free time. A redesign/reboot is one of the things I want to accomplish before I return stateside. I submitted to Performancing.com for their professional review and I hope I get selected. I am also thinking about submitting it to UBlogMe. So we shall see how everything goes in the next couple of months. I am a little said that I missed the May, 1st blog reboot day, but at least it inspired me to move forward with my redesign.
I’ve seen many of the blogs that I read talking about a new social network called Virb. Seems like they aim to combine MySpace, YouTube and Flickr all in one place. It is very Web 2.0′y from what I can see so far. That isn’t really good or bad, but at least it’s keeping up with web style unlike MySpace. I will be messing around with it as much as I can in the next few days and will try to offer a more complete review. The thing that makes a social network good though are it’s users. At least their invites for the beta are pretty viral right now which could be good to build the network. Who knows, maybe they can pull a Gmail and keep it in private beta long enough to get an amazing user base. Speaking of the invites, I got mine from a blog and in that spirit I have 10 invites for people who leave a comment with a valid e-mail address.
If you are already a member feel free to add me as your friend when you check out my profile. I look forward to learning more about this site and seeing it develop.
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