Building Web DIrectory : 1 : My Progress

The image shows where I stand as I write this post.

As posted before, view the build or the css for this homework assignment.

What I would like to do yet:

• Top access menu for login (not in wireframe). Try an in line list with position:absolute or fixed
• Home Page with login info (last idea to implement)
• Student Page with my info (in my view the homework is for a student page)
• Main menu design with tab top left corner. If I'm feeling really ambitious test out an image navigation the way I found on Ikea's web site.
  
• Figure out how to get the backgrounds of the shortest info columns to be as long as the longest info column for each row.
  
• Finish filling in the information.
• Style the main content.

Some Observations

The top nav list is almost exactly the same for IE7 and Firefox (it may look the same to you but there are a few pixels difference). In achieving this I'm afraid I've written some congested css code.

• For one, the visibility:auto property for the header div has to be there for the navigation not to disappear when the sun image (logo div) is rolled over. What? I know, that is what I feel right now. If this was for a client I'd figure out why but for now I'm happy it just looks decent for those two browsers.
• Maybe I'll rewrite the top navigation to be at the root div level and then position it absolute to the container div. Would that place it in the exact same place in all browsers or will I need to find a way to do position:fixed? I have to admit I'm getting a little too focused on the navigation placement.
  

In my web research for lists, I was surprised to realize the solutions I have been copying in the past don't even use the inline value but rather float li tags to the left to get the horizontal menu. I suspect this is so because each browser has a different rendition of the basic list as I pointed out a previous post about list observations and we saw in class. Maybe I'll post some links about lists if anyone actually reads this and is interested.

Last but not least I'm finding this a great way to procrastinate from the work I should be doing ;-)