Considering the way this week got away from me, I decided to finish it up with some reading on the basics of CSS. So I went back to “HTML & CSS: Design and Build Websites” and did some digging into pseudo-elements, pseudo-classes and attribute selectors.
I also realised that I’d been inadvertently using filter:drop-shadow to add a drop-shadow to my header text when I should have been using the text-shadow property. I tweaked the measurements a bit and I think the current version looks better:


Given the way my schedule is going these days, I think I’ll finish the book before I jump into anything more complicated.