Rhode Island Advocates for Gifted Education

Rhode Island Advocates for Gifted Education

I’ve been updating the design of the RIAGE.org web site in xhtml in between other projects. I want to complete the updates before our meeting with Deboral Gist, RI’s new Commissioner of Education. I only have a few more pages to finish up. Overall, I’m much happier with the look of the site now.

I cleaned up the logo in Adobe Fireworks, and made structural changes in the layout of the pages, and the CSS (cascading style sheets) in Dreamweaver.  SEO, (search engine optimization) should be greatly improved with the reworked navigation and tags. I added some of the fun CSS 3.0 features like rounded corners on div borders and drop shadows on some of the text. Of course, as of this writing you have to be using Opera, as your browser to see the CSS drop shadows, and FireFox to see the rounded corners on the div borders. Too bad Internet Explorer 8 doesn’t support so many of the CSS tags. Nonetheless, I’m optimistic that newer versions of these web browsers will support those features soon, and in any case, the pages look good even if you can’t see those little added touches!