Today was the final in-class lesson, and our main objective was to complete functionality of our own mock websites, in particular fixing the menu. This is where I ran into problems because I strayed from the original Evoke idea of having the menu near the top. Philippa advised me (rightly so) that having the menu only at the bottom is a bad idea, and so I created a menu in the header div and will in future start from that idea - the menu of course doesn't have to be just horizontal or vertical - there's certainly room for experimentation - but having a menu at the top is crucial for good functionality.
I also added a form to the website. This wasn't easy code to remember off the top of my head but I had a bit of help from Philippa's example and copied the code into my own file. The form was just a simple single-row box to type a comment or question and send to my email instantly. Many more sizes can be used for forms but I will explore those later for my main website as I need to.
After the mock websites we explored a way to make good-looking menus by using rollovers. For this, Philippa had downloaded an example from the internet that we could use the code from but change the image links, sizes and other things as we saw fit. This was again hard code to retain, so using past examples will be needed if (and probably when) it will be used on my own websites. This was also a technique I'd never seen or knew existed - I thought rollover images were always created by linking to another separate image file rather than a single one.
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