{"id":9,"date":"2006-12-30T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/9.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T12:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T18:57:00","slug":"i-read-very-good-book-on-css","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/i-read-very-good-book-on-css.html","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a very good book on CSS programming at the local Barnes &#038; Noble: <em>Head First HTML with CSS &#038; XHTML<\/em> (which is now in my Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/gp\/registry\/wishlist\/FHDR0MLN4X7E\/ref=lst_llp_wl-go\/104-4652269-8771923\">wishlist<\/a> btw). I was inspired and started tinkering with my blog. From what I can tell, making those little clouds with the rounded corners would be a pain in CSS so I kept those as tables. But I&#8217;m ditching the table infrastructure that positions the clouds for CSS techniques. It&#8217;s not done yet, but it looks good so far. The file size between CSS and HTML appear the same so I have to ask what the point is. Still, it&#8217;s good to know the latest way to do things.<\/p>\n<p>I learned tables way back when in 2000 or so for a multimedia anthropology class (!) when I was an undergrad. Since then I&#8217;ve gotten pretty good at making a layout that doesn&#8217;t break. I guess it&#8217;s very unintuitive but by now it&#8217;s pretty natural for me to stick in an invisible gif as a spacer or put a table within a table to keep its shape. Kristin didn&#8217;t get it when I tried to explain it to her though so if I learn an easier alternative I can hopefully pass it on to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a very good book on CSS programming at the local Barnes &#038; Noble: Head First HTML with CSS &#038; XHTML (which is now in my Amazon wishlist btw). I was inspired and started tinkering with my blog. From what I can tell, making those little clouds with the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/i-read-very-good-book-on-css.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}