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At the end of March I landed a six page coding job for the new design of Hotels.vc, which has a tabbed navigation much like the one I coded for the scribas.com project. No sooner had I started on that job then a two page job I was expecting, came in from Clarihon Web Services for their Poland Hunting project. Okay two jobs at once, I can do this… then my friend Lori of Zenful Creations asked me to track down a problem on a page she was working on. Then a one page coding job from another client I do work for, came in. My plate was full….

The Hotels.vc job took longer then expected, in part because I forgot about Easter, and had to take some time away from work for family events, and in part because of minor miscommunication on what was wanted. Other then that, all jobs were completed in a timely manner.

I also had time to get the new design for Sea Land Sky online and finished the Reboot design for

Wyrd Chaos which will go live on May 1st read more…

In the middle of all this fun, I also turned 51. Looks like it will be all down hill from here. So while I’m waiting for the next job to come in from Clarihon Web Services, I’m doing a little work in the yard, and trying to update some of the blogs (like this one) that I have.

If you have visited here before you will notice that FrogLace WebDesign has a new look. Another change is that the site is now being run on the WordPress platform. One of my reasons for doing this was to allow me to update my Portfolio. Something I was not keeping up with, using the older layout.

Speaking of Portfolio, the coding job I did for Mortimer Chocolate site design back in late 2006, is now live. I also just finished a design and coding job for the same client for Local Administration Management.

This new layout is v 3.0, and though I liked the clean feel of the white layout (v 2.0), I seem to be swinging back into an artsy look in my personal site designs. This first showed its head with the redesign of ParkerTorrence.com [p] [w], back in October of 2006. Last week I finally had enough time to port that new design onto WordPress for use on my personal weblog (something use even less then this one … there never seems to be enough hours in a day).

I have a few other websites I’m currently redoing, one should be done soon, while the other is done, but I’ll be using it for the May 1st Standards Reboot this year (more on both of these subjects in a latter post).

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Part of my interest with web design in general and css in particular is that there is always more then one way to do anything. For most things there is not “one right way” there is “what will work best for this design.” This interest keeps me trying out new things, to keep my knowledge base fresh. One of the things I have been trying of late is the “negative margins method” of centering the content for a design.

If you do not know what the “Negative Margins Method” is:
You take the wrapper div and set it to 50% left then set margin-left to half of the value of the design layout width.
… example …
#wrapper {
width: 720px;
position: relative;
left: 50%;
margin-left: -360px;
}

Simple, elegant, minimum code, what could go wrong?
Many of the designs I code are fixed width, with 770px being the average size, so from time to time I have been employing the “Negative Margins Method” often enough that it had become a habit and not a thought. Habits can have a way of biting you. So it was that I was coding a design the other day and used the “Negative Margins Method” without thinking about it. My design mind was looking more at the other aspects that I needed to code, then the pros and cons of the “Negative Margins Method”. Was I surprised when my client contacted me and said that “the left side of the content was vanishing when the browser window was at 800×600.” It only took a second of looking at the code to discover why. the layout width of the design was just under 900px wide which meant that even though the width was set to the correct amount, and a scrollbar was present at the bottom of the page, the “left: 50%” placed the design so that 50px of it was un-viewable.

I rechecked my references and did not find any where that limitation to using “Negative Margins Method” was noted. It looks like I will be taking that tool out of my tool box.

Now a few words about Image Replacement.

I think that Image Replacement of Hn tags is one of the greatest ideas. Depending on my needs I use the Pahark or the Gilder/Levin method. What I don’t do very often is test in the Netscape 7.2 browser. So it was with some surprise when I was informed that one of my code jobs had created strange blue lines all over the layout.

Everywhere I had employed the Pahark method with a link I had a blue line showing up in the Netscape 7.2 browser. The fix was simple, a global text-decoration: none for my links. Just something else to keep in mind when I use Image Replacement for links.