CSS Zen Garden Jabberwocky

This project was an interesting project. We were given a pre-made HTML sheet, and were instructed to customize the website using only the website's CSS. The idea of this came from a site known as CSS Zen Garden, which basically does this on a very large scale and creates a very large amount of different website layouts using only CSS off of the same HTML template. Click Here to go to the actual CSS Zen Garden Website. The specific HTML text we were given was the text from Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll. The first step of our project was to draw a sketch of what we wanted our website to look like once all of the CSS was applied to the website. To the right of this post you can see the sketch that I originally drew up for my site. After opening up the HTML in Dreamweaver I then modified the various different divs to set all of them to be placed and coloured as I pleased. I also added the image of the Jabberwocky's head into the background of the text, and added a spooky forest background to the entire site, as you can see below. The hardest part to designing the site was probably getting the Jabberwocky's head to stay where I wanted it to be placed, mainly because of the long antenna that it has. I learned from this just how much stuff CSS truly can do, and how to harness the true power of CSS to manipulate the design of the site without even touching the HTML. This project in the end took about 2 or 3 days to do I think. Once the general idea has been put into your mind, it's a matter of finding which things need to be edited and applying it to the entire site, until you get the desired design for your site.