This morning I finished a draft of my “imitation” of the current weather site. I have all the pages except for plotting and the almanac rewritten using CSS and while there are some little style things I can adjust, it’s all there. The biggest part of this transition was making sure that the HTML content has a logical structure. Using lots of <div> tags with ids attached to them, we can go in and basically manipulate the pages in any way that we want using CSS. Its pretty cool! I spent the rest of the day doing some really basic layout sketches and jotting down some notes about what the site might look like down the road. I also did some follow ups about server vs. client side graphing this morning, and I don’t know if we necessarily want to switch given the amount of traffic we get (I’m making some assumptions), but it probably would not be too bad of a switch, but regardless each side has its pros and cons.
-Will