Tuesday, June 1, 2004

Website Development, Take 3

	A few days ago I started work on a new website. This is the third serious site I've started on, hence the "take 3," and it's coming along nicely so far. (The first two were Zelda sites that never got anywhere close to being completed). It's not really large-scale, but it's not just something thrown together in Dreamweaver like most of the piddley little sites I've made. Like I said, I'm actually taking this one seriously. Really, what made me start work on the site was the fact that I wanted to learn CSS. And to learn, I needed something to practice on. And the best thing to practice on would be a new website designed with CSS. So, with a Mozilla window open to W3C's CSS Tutorial, I opened up Notepad and started coding. Making up a site layout totally on the fly, which has since been tweaked in various little ways, took me nearly twelve hours, but I've come up with something that I'm pretty happy with. As for what I'm going to actually have on the site in the way of content, I've decided to use it as a place to put up my various writing and graphics. So far I've got the banners pages done, and now I'm working on the GBA reviews page. Maybe this site will motivate me to write more, since I'll always have somewhere to put it up for people to read. On the PS2 front, I still haven't gotten any other games, but I did go into GameStop and look at their used games. They had a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics for the PS1 that I'm interested, though I didn't see a price for it, but none of the used PS2 games really stood out to me. They are, however, selling new copies of Final Fantasy X for only $20; that works out to me only paying $5, since I've still got that $15 gift certificate, which is not a bad deal at all. I think I'm going to get a copy pretty soon here. Edit: I uploaded a little preview of how my page is coming along so far; you can find it here, but beware the ads. With the use of absolute positioning, they actually cover up parts of the pages, and they also screw up the HTML validation, so don't expect that to work. Also, the Final Fantasy page is the only banners page I uploaded -- the other links don't go anywhere -- but everything on the FF page should work fine. Tell me what you think of the layout.

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