arkitrave :: log

After quite a bit of time putting off school assignments and feverishly coding CSS, the site is at a low level of functionality. Many pages need to be built, but the five areas of the site are defined and links are working. Notice the different colors for each area; the rollovers on the main navigation follow this color scheme.

This is all done with CSS; different images exist for the active states of the navigation bar. I used separate images rather than pixy et al’s rollovers, since only the active condition needed to be different - the gray inactive buttons all use the same image. This seemed more efficient. The states are determined by a body id and link id rather than using a current class for the nav links. I’m fairly happy with the graphic look and the CSS seems to be functional in Mozilla and Opera. I will fight with IE at a later date.

I am using the recently discovered behavior: hack to get IE to hover on arbitrary elements - each navigation button is built with two images which slide over each other to fit the text, so I needed the hover to work on the a: element and the li element of the nav. The li hover is achieved with this behavior: hack, and works beautifully.

I have to catch up on my schoolwork. Getting this log styled is going to be a pain; MT has its own templates and I have to customize them. So it will be ugly for a while longer.