CSS Poem

Today's in-class exercise was done out of class, as we had our first quiz to complete. I had a lot of fun creating a page containing a poem and adding css style. I always have considered Paul Simon a poet, and thought of his song "Night Game" from "Still Crazy After All These Years."

I tried to mirror the feeling of the song, which is about a pitcher who dies during a night baseball game. I used Photoshop to create two images of a ballpark and a pitcher, with a gradient and feathering to fade it out to black.

I used a black background and made the text gray, sans-serif. I positioned everything using divs, spans and some relative positioning. I added a link back to my homepage with white font so it would stand out and show clearly how to return to the index. I wanted it to be unobtrusive and fit in with the theme, so I placed it at home plate.