eye twitch
Ever find your eyelid twitching, kind of like in that freaky eye glasses
commerical where the eye is talking? It happens to me...
Like right now. I've been staring at the computer display for most of the
last five hours trying to figure out why the CSS thing I was working on
last night doesn't work properly.
It seems that in CSS (that's Casscading Style Sheets, by the way), you
can't just plop down a footer at the bottom of your page like you might
do in regular HTML. Nope. CSS doesn't understand that in the page flow
when you have a multi-column
href="http://www.westofthelake.org/index-new.shtml">layout, as I am
working on.
So, now I'm basically looking at CSS
href="http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flexiblelayouts/">hacks
(great, now I've gone from one CBS prime-time drama to another) and
trying to get them to work the way that I need them to in order to put
the copyright footer at the bottom of the page, below both columns.
Very, very, very frustrating. That particular hack doesn't quite cut it
because it assumes that the same column is always longer than the others.
On the West of the Lake site, that won't be true since the photo on the
left makes that longer on pages where there is less text than on the
right. I guess I could drop the photo, but I kind of like it there.
I'm kind of glad that I don't actually do this stuff for a living (well,
you know, like in a full-time job... I'd gladly try to do it for a
living, if I thought anyone would hire me) because it's eternally
frustrating.
Perhaps I should just go back to HTML. No, never!
But, I should do something else now for a while, just for the sake of my
eyelid twitching...
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