September 29, 2013: I haven't been documenting my site building progress regularly. There has not been a lot that I have done other than fiddle. I am including an "about" page and have played around with the index page, but am still not very happy about it. I have made some minor changes so that the various pages still make sense in landscape view at least on a 7 inch tablet - I do not have a smartphone so am unable to check that out.
I have finally started to get some "AgeingGracefully" content started and the personal importance of the site has at last become clear to me. An "About" is now included. I do not expect to log any further entries to this page unless I make a really big change.
September 7, 2013: Decided to remove the dark bar from the rhs of this page and replace it with a box. Used the 'dl' tag for the first time and it works neatly for this application. It took me a little bit of fiddling to get the box the way I wanted it to appear. I hope not to revisit the format of this page again.
Changed the "not_found" page, which hopefully will never be found. Used the fuzzy background to the not_found box just for fun.
August 30, 2013: Cleaned up the css files and put some comments in so that I do not get lost in the future.
I decided to just use a new (throw away) email address and obfuscate it sufficiently so that it is not picked up by web crawlers, and I included a Creative Commons thingy on the index page. I may embed this in the grey background so that it does not scroll.
Re-wrote the Index page, I am still not happy with it and will give it another rewrite some time in the future.
August 26, 2013: I've reduced the number of css files I need and commented the various parts of the files so that I don't get lost when making future changes.
My original index.html page has been dropped and my former home page is used as index.html; at he same time I dropped the meditation page and changed the name from be_still to jambalaya. Some links to meditation.html remain - I have yet to get rid of them.
August 19, 2013: I spent perhaps a day trying to figure out why the w3shool link was appearing on a separate line (on the All About Me page). I eventually found that the formatting of the link was inheriting formats from the links in the navigation bar. Eventually settled for a distinct class. This is not the best way of doing things, and I will (I hope) later get around to fixing the problem more elegantly. The navigation bar in itself took some time even though I'd previously devised one maybe three years ago.
Have been fiddling with a dark vertical bar on the rhs of this page with the intention of making the links a little clearer. I can spend fruitless hours on this sort of thing. I'm just going to let it remain as it is while I get on the some of the content.
I learnt the basics of html and css from the w3schools web site. I constantly use it to refresh my memory or finding 'howto'.