Today I chose the CSS template that I expect will govern my site from here to the end of the course. It's called "An Ocean of Sky" -- a simple, functional template with one column and a nav bar at the top. My choice was governed by the nature of the project. A literary website should have a clean, uncluttered look, and my needs are not very complex; in particular, I don't need local navigation menus, sidebars, or other frills that take up a whole column of my nice whitespace. This particular template also gives me room for a picture between the nav bar and the content, and I think that something abstract and slim could give the site a very distinctive look. I haven't played yet with color or font, but I've figured out how to do that sort of thing easily. CSS is pretty cool.
In experimenting with "An Ocean of Sky," I got a couple giggles. The template's developer made a couple mistakes; he misspelled the word "navigation" in naming an element, and, having done it once, he was obliged to do it again every time he called that part of the code. He also forgot to make one of his nav bar headings into a link. Seeing developers make mistakes gives me the confidence I need to make brand-new mistakes of my own!
I've created five basically identical pages: News (my index), Verses, About Me, FAQ, and Contact. In the end, these pages will all be rather different. I expect News to have a simple blog, Verses to use the PHP script I mentioned in my last post, and About Me to have some multimedia; if I have time and can figure out how it works, I'm going to try to implement an automatic feedback form on the Contact page. If all goes as planned, I'll have some experience working with the bells and whistles I'll need when I'm developing web pages "for real!"
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