I've been busy
You may have noticed (or not, if you’ve just stopped checking all-together) that I haven’t written here in a while. Well I’ve been busy! I, with my limited technical knowledge, helped build a blog focused on the Washington Nationals. Granted I’m a die hard Cubbies fan, as are a few of the writers on river-dogz, but there’s always room for another witty, sarcastic and highly analytical baseball blog.
You’ll notice that my website-building skills are pretty minimal (the header could use some work), but all in all I’m quite proud of myself! I even figured out how to get an image to show up in a text widget – for me, that’s a huge accomplishment. Also, changing the fonts or text size was initially a challenge but now I find myself talking about font families and scrolling through stylesheets. It’s crazy! (for me it’s crazy.)
As for changing colors, well, I’m just not there yet. I mean, can someone please tell me what this means? As I began working with code and trying to figure it all out, the colors seemed pretty self explanatory. Find the ’333′ in the stylesheet for the header color, change it to ’033′ and you’ll get a new color (dark blue), right? Wrong.
Now I find myself working even harder on my own site (I’d link to it, but it’s currently password protected), trying new things, working with code and challenging myself more and more to try to make a website not only look good, but go past the original theme and make it my own. Once I take the password protection off it’s going to be great – not just visually, but it is and will be a full collection of my writing, research, and some photos.
A final note about river-dogz - I think it would be pretty awesome to have an embedded calendar (or something similar) to show the Nats season schedule. Any suggestions for how to go about that?
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I can tell you what that means! HTML color codes consist of three bytes, representing red, green and blue, respectively. A byte can encode a value between 0-255 (inclusive), where 0 is black and 255 is maxing out that color. The mixture of the varying intensities of those primary colors of light determines the color that you see.
The color code represents these varying intensities in hexadecimal, where each character can encode 16 different values (0,1,2..8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f). Since 16×16=256, it takes two hex characters to encode a byte. So you end up representing three-byte color encodings like so:
#ff0000 = brightest red possible
#00ff00 = brightest green possible
#0000ff = brightest blue possible
#ffff00 = brightest yellow possible
#999999 = a gray
#aaaaaa = a lighter gray
#000000 = black
etc.
using just three characters is a shorthand — #aaa is equivalent to #aaaaaa, #121 is shorthand for #112211, etc.
Make sense? Try this out to get a better idea of how it all relates. You can ignore the HSV bit — that’s a different three-byte means of encoding colors that’s not used on the web.
Uh, whoops. That was me, not Valeria — I helped her fix her site and I guess I was still logged into wordpress.com as her.