thirtyonethree

I have decided to throw in the towel on a CSS Reboot design of GodSquad. (A reboot is taking a design laid out with tables and converting it to XHTML/CSS for layout.) I just can’t get a significant element to look good in IE6. I think I am going to settle for some middle ground and convert some of it over to CSS and clean up the current style sheet. I am disappointed that I did not get it to work. It is always good to fool around a bit and try new things. I learned some things in the process and I am more convinced that I need to do a redesign to be able to move it over completely.

I also started working on some design ideas to redo the homepage of campuscrusadeforchrist.com. I have been wanting to do that for awhile. I don’t like the present one. I am pretty happy with the direction it is going so far. See my work in progress>

Today was my fourth day of trying to move a design from using tables to layout the page to using XHTML/CSS. Each day I am able to solve some problems and learn something new but I am still not there yet. I am frustrated that IE6 renders things so differently from a standards compliant browser like Firefox. As i siad the other day, most people are still using IE6 so the design has to work in it also.

I think I tend to forget how much time I spend working out the CSS each time I have done a design in it. I have done 4 different sites in XHTML/CSS and two of the sites I have done a second design so I have done a total of 6 designs that are tableless. I really like using CSS but it does add a lot more hassle at times because browsers render it differently. I hope IE7 does a better job and makes life a little bit easier as far as designing for it.