I’m thinking about redesigning Vanilla Sugar Web-Design. It’s not the professional look I’m going for. I’m going to keep the color scheme, but change the way the banner looks. I may even add navigation links in the footer. I’ve been adding links to all my websites in the footer anyway to make it easier to get around. I just finished doing that yesterday.

I want Vanilla Sugar webdesign to look a bit more professional than it looks now. I didn’t put much time or effort into the sites design at all. I mean my web-design site actually resembles my blog to a degree. So for todays agenda I need to:

• Redesign Vanilla Sugar Web-Design
• Redesign a new top banner
• Rewrite and improve index page of site
• Possibly Add a navigation in the footer

This may take a while to finish. I need to design the banner using Paint Shop and come up with a new layout for my site. I’m so glad I used CSS for Vanilla Sugar Web-design because it will be easier to change the entire sites layout.

Added at 11:49pm…

I’ve finally finished redesigning Vanilla Sugar Web-design. It looks a lot more professional and I’m happy with the results. I actually did a web search for “webmaster”, to see what webmaster service sites looked like. I wanted to get an idea of how to design Vanilla Sugar Wed-design.

While surfing I learned a new css trick! The z-index property. It makes text and images overlap. I decided to use this to give the top navigation a cool look.

I actually added two top navigations to organize the links better. I first put my links about the site (Home, FAQ, Contact, etc,) at the very top and the other links overlaps the banner and main text field.

What took so long for me to finish is that I added required field-forms to my form on the quote page and I would purposely not fill out one of the required forms to see what happens. This took me to an ugly default error 400 page. Which I feel is totally unprofessional. The error page would not even say why you got an error. How would someone know that they missed filling out something? So I created a custom error page, but I couldn’t get it to point to the page without using .htaccess.

.htaccess should only be used when it really is an error, like a missing page or broken link. Not a missing form field. After about an hour of trying to debug the problem I finally figured out what tag to use in the form fields which was right in front of me. Duh!

Anyways…

I’m thinking about redesigning the Strawberry Web Builder too. I’m not really feeling the layout either. I like the background and the banner, but it’s just the main-text part that really bugs me. Can’t think of how I should change it though. I wanted all my layouts to be different and unique, but that layout just seems sloppy to me. I guess tomorrow I’ll think of something.

Goodnight.