{"id":1704,"date":"2004-03-17T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2004-03-17T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2004-03-17T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2004-03-17T18:03:14","slug":"slightly-tightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1704","title":{"rendered":"Slightly tightened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m learning how to do various fun things with CSS and html for work, so today&#8217;s entry is going to be all about that sort of thing&#8230;  Feel free to nod off anytime.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirst off, I&#8217;ve done some tidying of the main stylesheet for the &#8216;blog.  Basically, there&#8217;s no more futzing around with clumsy &#8216;float&#8217; and percentage width commands anymore, just nice absolute positioning that should take care of some problems with vanishing menus.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, I hope to go to a much easier interface based on some of the nifty stuff from over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westciv.com\/style_master\/house\/cookbook\/\">CSS Cookbook<\/a>.  I really like their way of doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westciv.com\/style_master\/house\/cookbook\/demos\/rollover_demo.html\">roll-over<\/a> menus and such without using javascript.<\/p>\n<p>On the software front, I&#8217;m using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrabbit.com\/cssedit\/\">CSSEdit<\/a> from MacRabbit software to do most of the actual editing.  It&#8217;s a pretty impressive piece of shareware.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now from me&#8230; More later depending on how work goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m learning how to do various fun things with CSS and html for work, so today&#8217;s entry is going to be all about that sort of thing&#8230; Feel free to nod off anytime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-technical-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}