The clouds are finished -- not perfect, but finished, and supported on all browsers. My About Me and FAQ pages are in presentable forms; there are no more Lorem Ipsums. My footer is clean and gives credit where credit is due, as well as duplicating the Contact link. I have some nice art on the About page that breaks out of the one-column mold a little bit, using simple CSS code inspired by a classmate's website. I have, in short, a website that is no longer just a placeholder.
There are ways it could be improved. Up until the last minute, I'll be trying to figure out what I need to figure out to improve it. But one thing I've realized about Web pages, over the course of this semester, is that they can always be improved. There is always something that doesn't work quite right: an element whose behavior you don't like when you resize your browser window, a cool idea that would take forever to implement, some text whose offset you don't like and can't easily change. At some point you have to say "good enough." If the site I have today is the site I turn in, I'll have some small disappointments. But I'll be able to point with justice to the triumph of a blog, the interesting aesthetic design with respect to theme and purpose, the incorporation of useful PHP scripts, and above all the lessons I've learned about how -- when necessary -- to work, rework, and re-rework until something looks great and does what I want it to.
Not bad, for a semester's work!
No comments:
Post a Comment