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I thoroughly enjoyed the assignment in 409 today, though I was worried at first that my web skills may have slipped a bit since last spring when I took IMM. Happily most of it came back pretty quickly.

I have learned a lot already in 409 and it has only been 2 classes. Prof. Habermas inspires confidence, so I am looking forward to our sessions. For guidance, I looked back to my IMM final project, which I was able to salvage after getting the word in class today that you could still access your files from Grace by using ftp. --Many thanks to whoever the classmate was that provided that very helpful tip!

I used a lot of images in the xhtml version, all through CSS by setting them as the background image to divs. I worked in Photoshop and used the hex codes to match colors so I could get a more seamless look between the images and the html coded colors. For added depth I created a gradient in Photoshop and set it as a background image to repeat horizontally.

I had some validation errors that made no sense at first, but it turns out that BBEdit uses a closing slash in the UTF tag that should not be there for html. It set off a bunch of errors but once I figured it out, the other errors went away. I also wanted to put some content on the right of the main section of my xhtml recipe but had some positioning problems. I hope to work that out in class at some point and figure out how to make it work.

I used Fugu for my ftp and Terminal to set the permissions -- it's way too frustrating to have to do that all the time with Gibson!! I also learned some new pico tricks from Prof. Habermas today, which I appreciate.

I adapted the recipe so that it would be vegan candy, as that's how I live. It sure made me hungry by the time I was finished.

See the XHTML recipe here.
See the HTML recipe here.