It is now time for me to begin a blog about what I plan my career will be. I intend to continue this blog well into my career and help others the best way I can in spreading knowledge about the web and technology as it advances in our world today.

The topic today, are something called Drawers. They are created with CSS and Javascript and they’ve provided a great many obstacles for me. The code however is simple and easy to implement. However I highly suggest that if you try using Drawers that you first learn how to do it on a simple, clean slate of an HTML page. Trying to implement drawers into an already designed website can be cumbersome and you may realize if you don’t already know how drawers work that it may not be possible to do what you want it to. The full tutorial for this Drawers technique can be found within Issue 169 of the Practical Web Design magazine (from the makers of .net). The main idea behind drawers is that you can show and hide content using Javascript by activating and deactivating div’s using the command ‘onclick’ . The headings are linked icons or text for toggling the drawer open and closed so that the content can be displayed and hidden.

Drawers are great because a lot of times you may have a lot content on your website and not a lot of room on the screen for the all the information you want to have available. Drawers can be used in many different ways, and it is up to each developer as to how they use them and for what purpose. They are definitely a new, sleek way of presenting the information on the web using only CSS and Javascript.

Until next time,

Rebekah Renford

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