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.

Godalming Joigny Site

Sorry its taken so long but life has a tendency to get in the way. You can see my progress with the Godalming Joigny site below. Internet Explorer users - these may not work properly for you so please get a proper browser.
Test 1
Test 2
Test 3
Test 4
Test 5
Test 6
I've now, after a few frustating hours, fixed the Internet Explorer issues in the final version. I've pretty much finished the site but it won't be online for a few days. I'll post a link when that happens.

Two Best Friends

Once upon a time there were two best friends called MySQuirreL (MySQL) and PHilliP (PHP). They lived together in the magical kingdom of Serverland.

In a castle lived a Web Magician who wanted to build a dynamic database-driven website and he told HenryTML to do this. HenryTML couldn't do this on his own so he summoned MySQuirreL and PHilliP to help him.

After it was built and uploaded to the Great Server Tree, a computer in our world was running a browser and the browser told the computer to look for the right website files in the Great Server Tree and bring them back.

When he was told to, PHilliP asked MySQuirreL for some data and MySQuirreL looked in the Great Database. MySQuirrel found the data and gave it to PHilliP, who gave it to HenryTML. The browser translated what HenryTML told it and showed it onscreen. The Web Magician saw this and was glad.

And they all lived happily ever after!

THE END