Designing_the_WWW

This year seems to be a slow year. I sure hope that next year will be a year for new beginnings. I haven’t found any time to make any changes to the site or any real updates to this blog. I have once again started to capture the love of doing art and having some great ideas. The more I watch anime the more I love the style of drawings or cells in the animations. I wish to create more art work based on the Japanese style of anime or manga. However, I think I have an idea to work out for the start of the high speed end of the site.

To finish of this year, I will create the rest of the low bandwidth and start the next year with ideas for flash content. I might even think about using the new Microsoft application SilverLight. I don’t know how it works, but it seems to be just as a good alternative for flash. In the end, there will be a time where I need to have knowledge in both.

Within a span of two day, two good things happened. I was contacted to create a new website for my best friends mother. I love to help out other people in obtaining their goals. The second thing that happened was the start of a new galley. I just learned how to control maximum sizes of images using a piece of CSS code. I love learning new ways of making things work. Back to the new job contract, this job is great I don’t have complete creative control, but it a job which I can handle and use some advance construction for building. Now, if they grow and want to build a dynamic system, they will have in place a template to work from and maybe someone in the future to help them grow. I hope my programming skills a web developer will grow as well.

Let me post some of the internet explorer code or hacks for the image maximum control for CSS, to others this may be new and to advance user this may be not so new.

img{

max-width: 500px; ***The first two are standard CSS code, works on firefox, mozilla, and maybe safari***

max-height: 400px;
/* for internet explorer */
width: expression(this.width>400? “400px” : “auto”); ***This is the internet explorer hacks, its sad to say that this might not work from older browsers***

height: expression(this.height>500? “500px” : “auto”);
}

Well, this bit of code made my layout and gallery design a lot more feasible and eye popping.