eye twitch

Ever find your eyelid twitching, kind of like in that freaky eye glasses commerical where the eye is talking? It happens to me...

Like right now. I've been staring at the computer display for most of the last five hours trying to figure out why the CSS thing I was working on last night doesn't work properly.

It seems that in CSS (that's Casscading Style Sheets, by the way), you can't just plop down a footer at the bottom of your page like you might do in regular HTML. Nope. CSS doesn't understand that in the page flow when you have a multi-column layout, as I am working on.

So, now I'm basically looking at CSS hacks (great, now I've gone from one CBS prime-time drama to another) and trying to get them to work the way that I need them to in order to put the copyright footer at the bottom of the page, below both columns.

Very, very, very frustrating. That particular hack doesn't quite cut it because it assumes that the same column is always longer than the others. On the West of the Lake site, that won't be true since the photo on the left makes that longer on pages where there is less text than on the right. I guess I could drop the photo, but I kind of like it there.

I'm kind of glad that I don't actually do this stuff for a living (well, you know, like in a full-time job... I'd gladly try to do it for a living, if I thought anyone would hire me) because it's eternally frustrating.

Perhaps I should just go back to HTML. No, never!

But, I should do something else now for a while, just for the sake of my eyelid twitching...

Posted by jonathan at July 20, 2003 03:44 AM