This blog, simply put, is pretty much whatever I'm thinking about at the time. It could be useful, it could be pointless, it could be ranting or it just might be funny.

Thursday 19 May 2011

Of Balloons and Code

You may remember a while back that I wrote about my balloon project. I'll give you a moment to think back... right, let's get started.

Having finished all my Uni work now, I'm left at a mild loose end. So I thought what better time to get started on the I Found A Balloon website?

This was yesterday, and such is my boredom that I have now finished the first stage - the HTML and CSS. You can have a look here.

I decided to try LESS for the CSS code. LESS describes itself as a 'dynamic style sheet language'. Basically, it extends basic CSS with things like variables, operations and functions to make it a more dynamic language. You can take a look on the website for more examples - it's probably easier than me explaining it. It just makes CSS development quicker and more efficient.

I've also used a couple of CSS3 properties which you may or may not notice - border-radius to make the corners round and RGBA values for the semi-transparency. I was hoping to add the balloon and the cloud using the :before and :after pseudo-classes but for some reason that didn't work

So that's the layout and design pretty much done; now for the <sarcasm>fun</sarcasm> bit - PHP.

Someone said this morning that I wasn't a geek until I made a website for fun and then blogged about it, mentioning several geeky things. Here they are:
  • You were eaten by a grue
  • Myst
  • C-basic
  • 0100001001101001011011100110000101110010011110010010000001001110011101010110110101100010011001010111001001110011
  • Cyborgs, pff, what do they know?
Is that geeky enough for you? Yes, I'm looking at you. You know who you are.