Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Moving ahead with scripts

We covered a lot of ground today in class. We worked on nesting divs, which was very helpful, especially if you want control over your page design. Then it was time to work on image optimization, thumbnails, and a script to open a full-size version of a jpg.

I expanded my thumbnail script to incorporate a slideshow of four thumbnail images, using a tutorial on banner rotation that I found in Javascript Demystified by Jim Keogh. I had to do a lot of rewriting to get what I wanted, but I was happy with the results. I added css to remove borders from the image links and underlines from text links. I also did a bit more image processing to tie the design together, repeating colors and the leaf imagery and using the color from the title as the anchor link color.

All in all, I am finding Javascript a lot easier than Java.

No comments: