Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

Crafting Web sites since 1999

I am a Web designer passionate about creating elegant, inspiring, and usable Web experiences that connect with an audience and fulfull business objectives.

GodSquad Reboot — Take 2

September 5, 2006

CSS · My work

Last month I was work­ing on a CSS Reboot of one of my sites, GodSquad.com. It is the only one of my sites that is still using tables for lay­out. A CSS Reboot is tak­ing a HTML table based design and con­vert­ing it into XHTML and CSS. Using CSS sep­a­rates the con­tent from the pre­sen­ta­tion. Using CSS has many advan­tages and I have long wanted to con­vert God­Squad over. The one stick­ing point is that one of the ele­ments of my God­Squad design has pre­sented some real chal­lenges in con­vert­ing in over to CSS. The has nav­i­ga­tional ele­ments that fol­low the shape of it. (See image on the left).

Today, I decided to try again using a dif­fer­ent CSS strat­egy. I decided to try to do some absolute posi­tion­ing to solve some of the prob­lems I was hav­ing with my first try. IE6 was giv­ing too much mar­gin or padding to the design and was mess­ing up the curve on the nav­i­ga­tional ele­ments. As I tried the absolute posi­tion­ing today, I was able to solve that prob­lem. I have one other prob­lem of dif­fer­ence in ren­der­ing in browsers that I need to solve but I am opti­mistic. I had “thrown in the towel” but now I am pick­ing it up and giv­ing it another try.

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