CSS

Our class is covering CSS this week.

I suspect that CSS would be useful for customizing the blog template. Since customizing Wordpress templates and using it as a content management system (CMS) is popular, I'm having second thoughts about picking Blogger for my class blog. I do want to customize my template for my primary career-related blog over at Wordpress.

If I change the colors, I should keep in mind that 1 in 20 people have some form of color blindness, according to our textbook. They cite a website called Vischeck that helps designers choose colors that will still be legible even to people who can't see color the same way.

One of the good things about CSS for designers is that if you use an external CSS file, if you need to change the color or other attributes on a website, you may only need to change it in one place instead of finding every tag in the HTML code. (Sometimes you need to use inline styles to overrule the page styles.) One of the good things about CSS for end users is that their browser doesn't have to waste time downloading repetitious style information embedded in each page.

Last week I did my XHTML homework at home using my text editor, but this week I'm at TechShop and will use Dreamweaver just to get some practice with this software.