Maria's Sweet Treats

In class for the last couple of weeks, we have been putting what we have learnt about HTML into practice, to create our own websites. We had to make our own website, for a company called Maria's Sweet Treats, a cake store that supplies mini desserts for parties and other events. It was interesting, but very hard to do. HTML is very rule-oriented, and very fiddly, and if you don't close one of your brackets, you're totally screwed. It's very time consuming and detailed.

Huan got us to download Kompozer, which is a free application that helps you write your own code. While it was great when we were making tables and headers, when I started trying to do more complicated coding, often it would not recognise it or just disappear the code that I'd typed in. I attempted to use background images within a table with text over the top (impressive, I know), but Kompozer would not let me resize the background images to fill the cells. I tried and I tried, and sweated over it for a couple of days, until I just had to let it go and move on with my life. I think that if I was going to do coding on a regular basis, I would probably purchase a more sophisticated application, like UltraEdit or Sublime Text. They're not terribly expensive, Sublime Text is $70, but I don't really need it.

Anyway, here is my website: Maria's Sweet Treats. Check out that sweet fixed position navigation bar! That one took me ages. Hopefully it's all working: when I first loaded it onto the server I realised that I'd saved my images onto my computer and then used a link for the image from there, but I needed to use the image link instead. So I fixed it, loaded it again, took another look. Then I needed to fix a link. So I fixed it, loaded it, looked again. Designing a website is incredibly time consuming and really detailed. One of the customers at the cafe that I work at was telling me that he's recently hired a company to build him a website, and it's going to cost him over four thousand dollars. Originally I thought that this amount was ridiculous! However, after going through the stress of trying to get this website to work, I've changed my mind, and decided that they totally deserve that money.

Update: I don't know why the home button on the home page isn't working. It works just fine on my mobile's browser. I suppose it's kind of redundant anyway, it only refreshes the page, but it's annoying that it doesn't work. I think I'm just going to have to accept that it doesn't work, and leave it alone, and move on to other homework. Like figuring out how the cloud works.