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Learning Report 2!!

This time, I learned how to make cool light-up links for my page.

Where I learned This Trick

I learned this trick from an article by Trenton Moss at Sitepoint.com It is trick 9 in the article.

What I Learned

I have learned how to liven my site up with links that change color when they are hovered over. I also had to learn about colors and a few more style manipulating fields.

I had to find a site that could give me the color numbers so I could use my own colors on my page. The original background color was a pretty hideous orange color.

Mostly, I have learned that I need to figure out what all of the things in the example at SitePoint do. The example was not very long and it basically just gave me the script I needed to make the button happen. Now I need to figure out what the script is actually doing.

Implementation

I have scripted this trick into my modularized footer. The home link at the bottom of each page now looks depressed when the user hovers over it. This trick will be seen on the navigation bar at the top of my site when I get the modules arranged the way I want.

For now, the buttons are on the bottom of the page. After I arrange the site a little more, this home button will replace the word "home" which is currently acting as a place holder in the top nav bar. I will then script the other links in the nav bar to work with their associated links.