Style 5:The College Dorm Look, or mom & dad will never see
this page. (I hope!)
Here we go, the bold, defiant home page of the college student,
freshman variety. Actually, this page is based on the
graphics and a question posed by Theresa Nelson,
a college student at Oklahoma University in Norman.
The problem that Theresa was having had to do with right
justifying text and images. This is a way of formatting
text so that the right margin is straight and the left margin
is ragged.
This is an example of
text that is right
justified
The reason that we need to format our page this way is
that we have a background image that contains a message.
The text in the image also consumes about half the width
of the screen!
Theresa also would like to see her picture on the right
side of the screen, the links right justified under the
picture, and the e-mail & counter graphic under the
links; right justified as well. Oh, and of course our
page must adapt to our reader's particular resolution.
Once again we will draw on the power of tables to get
most browsers to do our bidding.
In this example page,
we create a table that uses 100% of the screen with the
tag <TABLE WIDTH=100%>. Then we simply use the
<TD ALIGN=RIGHT> tag to force everything in that cell
over to the right.
In doing this style of page it is important to keep the
following things in mind:
Do not use TEXT=#FFFFFF (WHITE text), but a color
that would be readable if the browser can't deal
with the background image or black background color.
Consider placing the saying or in this case, lyrics
in real text at the bottom of the page. If you want
to hide it, just use the <FONT COLOR=#000000>
tag to make the text black. This way somebody with
a primative browser, or one with graphics turned off
won't lose your message.
Your parents may find the page, sell your furniture,
rent out your room, and cancel your credit cards.
Note: Theresa is changes her page about once a month,
so go see
You Have No Power Over Me if you have a moment.
Note: Theresa graduated from college (summer 1998)
and seems to have become more conservative. ;-)
- Bruce