A couple of posts back I talked about the resume project my students have been working on–today we created a new style sheet for it using a background-image technique I first learned from Karl Stolley as a member of his sustainable web design group last year. The workshop went well, and now those resume’s look’s quite different. I’ve ran into a few padding issues between Firefox for PC and Safari. Don’t bother looking at it IE (yet–I’m not going to cover conditional comments until a few projects from now).
Up next for my class, the Zen Garden–I’m excited for this project. I am only going to look at the projects in FF/PC, so that should allow my class to get into one design (rather than having to worry about cross-browser compatibility, I’m not tackling this until their service learning project).
I’ve written up the first four of the six sections of my Web Standards for Professional Writing project–its at 35 pages single spaced without most of the background images. Up nex for XHTMLt: definition lists, classes, spans, and images; for CSS parent and child selectors (to go with Zen Garden), floats, and using small background images to create texture (Karl does this on his homepage, I do it as well–this one I figured out by myself! Its nice to see that I “naturally” came to do something similar to what my original standards-mentor does… what’s that thing about great minds?)
