Hello everyone!
Before I begin, I'd like to recommend Head First HTML with CSS & XTHML to anyone who wants to learn how to make basic Web pages. You can find it on Amazon here: http://bit.ly/2cHv5H. If you've followed my site and my blog, you've probably noticed how it's improved over the past couple of months. I have to give credit to the authors at Head First for the book's accessibility.
Today I finally dived into the CSS sections of the book, and with the knowledge from those chapters, I finally change the blue hyperlinks to a calm gray. I also made the headers on the page less enormous, added a new header for the dates on cartoons, and put in some line spacing for the (small amount of) text on the site. Any experienced Web programmer may scoff at how trivial these actions are, but that doesn't matter to me. I'm happy the site looks more professional even with such small changes. I'll continue to update the site's appearance as I read through the book.
Now, on to cartoons. The website is designed to host my cartoons, and yet I only have one cartoon posted (and drawn!) for the year 2009. Don't think that I'm giving up the trade, though. I registered for small class on creating comics that I think will help me create better flow. I made my first attempt at paneling with my March 6 cartoon, and I'd like to continue in that style. Rest assured, I have several ideas floating in my head about my next cartoons. Most of them are complete in the idea phase, and some are even drawn in pencil, but before I post any more cartoons to the site, I want to harbor a few more skills from this class. I'll try to update this blog with my drawings from the class every week.
Thanks for your patience,
Art
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