This past Saturday/Sunday, from 1am-1am, I participated in an HTML/CSS writing contest, namely, the CSS OFF. The purpose of the contest is to use the given .psd to create a super-cleanly written website, in 24 hours. I can’t even remember how I heard about the contest at this point; I’ve been doing so much CSS-related web browsing in the past few months, it all runs together.

I decided to do the contest because of the great feedback the judges give you. Not having gone through school for web design puts me at a disadvantage when it comes to knowing the most current and “correct” way to do things.

I used microformats for the first time! and I’m looking forward to using them in the future. It may be said that I have a slight geeky crush on Tantek Çelik (this started after reading Zeldman’s web standards book, where he talks about Çelik’s work on IE5/Mac. I found out about Zeldman because of my slight geeky crush on Doug Bowman. Okay so maybe I have a slight geeky crush on all of them…this post is getting off-topic. The point is I think all this web standards stuff is wonderfully important, and these guys are the professors. I can only begin to hope that I pass.)

Check out my competition entry at www.aliglia.com/cssoff. I’m most proud of the way it handles text resizing. Things that could be better:

-microformats were missing some class names (specifically for links)
-a 1px-off problem with the nav in Safari (rrrrrggggg)
-should’ve made a rollover on “Get a Free Inspection”
-should’ve made “Contact Us” in the bottom-right a link
-too much space between the content and the footer
-could’ve made the footer a gradient

I’m totally out-of-control anal. My kindergarten teacher wrote on my report card: “Alia begins projects with a very unique enthusiasm, but has trouble completing them.” Uh oh. Something to work on.  I think 24-hour contests are right up my alley.

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