On a short hiatus

Posted on April 7, 2007 by Melissa Worden

I’m interrupting this lapse in posting to let you know that I’ve been up to my eyebrows in a project at work and haven’t had a chance to update the blog.

I figure that has to happen from time-to-time, but I have been reading and updating my delicious links (which I pull in at the bottom right of this page, but I think there’s a way to have them added as a blog entry when I need to take shortcuts. Not to self: Figure this out).

Anyway, I’m not only creating interactive stories for this project (via Flash, video, soundslides, etc.), but for the first time, I’m designing and building the pages from scratch using CSS. These resources have been a huge help:

>> Patrick’s list of CSS books (this link is worth a second plug — thanks again!)

>> Spring into HTML and CSS by Molly E. Holzschlag (this is a great book for a newbie transitioning over to CSS and was recommended to me long ago by Andrew Kantor)

>>O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online

>> A few tips from coworkers (and a couple of aforementioned books borrowed from heraldtribune.com übercoder Charlie Szymanski)

I feel a bit behind that CSS is a learning curve I’m trying to conquer (the past year I’ve been concentrating on building the interactive components — audio, podcasts, slideshows, flash interactives, etc.) I wrote earlier about the benefits of self-learning; I’m so proud already of my accomplishments. OK … enough sap … I’ll be sure to post a link to the project when we go live.

I’ve got some post ideas I’m kicking around and will get back on track soon.

Comments

2 Responses to “On a short hiatus”

Patrick B on April 7th, 2007 4:31 pm

Thanks for the second plug Melissa.

I’m looking forward to viewing the results of your work!
angela on April 7th, 2007 11:37 pm

Your April sounds like it’ll be like my March was. I’m also excited about seeing what you’re working on!

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