Author: Jason W

Part 4: Coding a Drop Down Menu

I’m still doing my best to master the fine points of building a drop down horizontal navigation menu. In my earlier posts on this topic I was building them with divs. Now I’m trying to do my best building them with ordered lists from memory – as in not having to reference W3Schools or some

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Author: Jason W

External JavaScript File

Now I wish to try to create an external JavaScript file. I think it would also be a good time to mention again I’m writing all my code just in Notepad – nothing fancy. Also, remember I’m following the W3Schools JavaScript course. I noticed that the code is written different when placing it in an

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Author: Jason W

Learning JavaScript Part I

I’m going to take some time off from CSS, I feel at this point I have at least a good foundation. My South Ataria Island website has been very helpful in building a knowledge base, but right now I feel it is more of a design project than a conduit that is helping learn more

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Author: Jason W

Multi-Image Background

I just recently finished up coding a nice “About Me” page on my South Ataria Island website. I want to share with you my thinking behind the background for that page, it isn’t rocket science but if you’re new to CSS like me hopefully you’ll find this helpful. I wanted the background to have columns

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Author: Jason W

Author: Jason W

Author: Jason W

Author: Jason W

Offset Text Inside a Box Effect

I’ve recently completed an overhaul of the ‘Macross Hotels’ page. One small feature I wish to elaborate on is the text blocks I used for the hotel names. I wanted a block of color with the text aligned all the way to the bottom right edge, below is a picture of the effect.

Author: Jason W

Part 3: Coding a Drop Down Menu

In Part 2 I built a skeleton drop down menu just to illustrate the basic principles. In the following I want to fill out that skeleton and build an entire navigation bar. Remember, we are starting with here which is a drop down menu built with divs (not with an ordered list). Part A: Dummy Text First

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Author: Jason W

Coding ‘Best Restaurants’ Page

I just completed (for now) the ‘Best Macross Restaurants‘ page on my South Ataria Island website, I based the design on this LA Eater website. This was a task that has taken me about a week to do as I turned a simple layout into something far more complicated. Below I’ll share some of the

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