Tag: CSS

bookmark_borderSlashdot shocker

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I’ve not actually checked to see if my site is currently compliant with any XHTML or CSS standard, I would imagine if they are not it is redundant ‘covering’ code anyway… that aside I do try and keep up with the goings-on in the CSS design ‘area’, and A List Apart is a great place to start.

It was with some intrigue that I spotted the article “Retooling Slashdot with Web Standards”, which includes the line “underneath the hood you will find an old jalopy” (OK, deliberately taken out of context). What follows is an interesting look at converting a site to CSS based design AND achieving compliance. Interesting stuff.

bookmark_borderDesign update

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OK, tweaked a little, but still having ‘issues’ with the archive pages. This is by no means finished though, especially for users on Mozilla Firebird (as suggested by my good self last week). Site looks fine in IE 5/6, OK in Mozilla (but not correct) and flat out sucks on Firebird. Netscape? Don’t make me laugh.

So the next step will be to try and create ‘valid’ CSS and see if that helps things, so be warned that the site will continue to be tweaked over the coming week(s).

bookmark_borderFour hours

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Not that I’m counting but that’s all the sleep I got last night. Hence I’m knackered and can’t really be bothered doing anything. I’ve struggled to do anything productive work wise, and the redesign has stalled (no thanks to finicky CSS mind you…).

So it’ll be some telly and then bed methinks.

Ohh and I seem to have been switched over to the new Blogger Pro and subsequently have lost my post from earlier today… so here it is again…

7:50 A.M. So you wanna be a writer
Writing a book : an interesting article and has some even more thought provoking comments.

“It’s such a pain to write books, it’s such a bother to go through the publishing process — what kind of person is willing to put him/herself through this? Answer: a very narrow demographic — the obsessed and the ambitious. Exceptions allowed for, this would seem to mean that most of the books we’ve interacted with over the years have been written by people who are nuts.”