Week 2 Exercise: Index Page

The in class exercise for this week had us create an index page with some basic information such as a pic of ourself, our name, links to our blog, in class exercises, and projects. Also, all the formatting for the page had to be done with CSS.

For this exercise, I chose CSS Layout 37 (Fixed Width) from Code-Sucks.com.

I used the right column to hold my information about myself and my picture. The left column, I used as my links. I plan to improve these as the course continues as I feel they could look a little better. I used the navigation bar to contain the drop-down menu of links. This is somewhat repetitive with the link in the left column but I also wanted to give the user the option of using whichever one they feel more comfortable with. The content section will house more information as the course moves along but for right now it just contains the Under Construction image. The Footer at the bottom of the page contains the date the page was last modified, a quick copyright with my name, and the XHTML and CSS Validation image links.

In general, I like the look and feel of the page but I do want to improve it throughout the course.

Here is the link to my index page: Index