Doing this exercise really tested my ability to format a good looking webpage. I had troubles from the very beginning when i tried to center the background image and still have the text placed appropriately over it. The seemingly abstract methods available for doing this always confused me even though i knew i could do it. I eventually got the setup to be a semi-centered static stylized form.
I learned that separating most things logically into divs can be easy, but can be confusing if not not planned out first. I hit an annoying moment when my padding and margins were messing everything up when i changed one div. I also had a strange problem where a picture i was putting into a div (the background picture) was being cut off at the top and bottom. After some messing around, i got the picture to show by setting the height of the div, letting the picture fill out the space.
I targeted this page mostly toward a minimum 1024X794 something pixel resolution because it is very common, and anything smaller would make things difficult when laying out the poem with the picture the way i wanted.
The Poem page is here:
Poem Page
It is also linked in my Index drop menu
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