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I have been thinking of adding colour to the sides of my blog page. I like how you shade from dark to grey in this theme (I note your own blog goes from light to green). Do you need an image to do this or is there html code that fades from one colour to another?
It is an image and CSS. What I have is HTML that looks like this:
<div class="widget">
<h3 class="widget-header">Elsewhere</h3>
<div class="widget-content">
<ul>
<li></li>
The image that you see on the sidebar widgets with the faded color at the bottom is the background image of the header. To make it fade into the rest of the widget, I used the CSS statement margin-bottom: -50px; in the stylesheet property for the header.
Sorry, when I said sides I mean the very sides (ie. page background), not the sidebars.
Though your comment about negative margins is useful. I only know basic html but playing around with my blogger template helps me understand a little more.
I think the concept of 1 versus 2 versus 3 versus 4 numbers next to margins (etc.) and what they mean takes a little time to get used to.
I think html should have taken its lead from WordPerfect code, at least what was shown to the user. It attempted to be logical, not just pragmatic.
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By the way, preview is useful, edit and delete would be helpful, but when submitting the page should not acknowledge the comment with a redirect link, it should go straight to the post (with comments). Is this your coding or moveable type?
Well, that sort of thing isn't HTML. It's CSS, which is a separate spec from HTML. Once you learn some of the basics of CSS, it'll start to really make a lot of sense.
The beauty of the structure of a modern web page is that it is modular. The HTML describes the data and general structure of the page. The CSS stylesheets tell the browser most of the important details about how to tweak the actual look of the page, and the JavaScript files that are imported add behaviors to the page.
HTML is meant to be simple, but flexible, something which WordPerfect and Microsoft Office are not. The beauty of HTML is that raw HTML is a very simple, straight-forward metalanguage for describing the data that you want to present to the user. When you combine it with CSS, you can create some very complex and attractive displays that go well beyond what WordPerfect can do.
It's both. I configured Movable Type to behave like that, but I've been thinking about changing that since it doesn't really serve much of a useful purpose anymore.