As will hopefully be obvious to you if you’ve been here before, I redesigned this blog. I just one day looked at this page and realized I couldn’t stand to look at the thing. Probably just some coincidental confluence of images and text conspired to make the thing ugly, but it was driving me crazy so I decided to change it, and in the process learn a thing or to about CSS, which heretofore has eluded my understanding. Somehow I got the mistaken notion that CSS would make things easier for me, and therefore what I thought would be a simple night’s work turned into days. The end result is that I had to look at this new design so much that I’m now bored silly of it too. Oh well, at least I can now say I have a table-less site, for whatever that’s worth (not much, as etherfarm reckons). I only tested this on IE6 and Mozilla using Windows, so if you’re using something different, I’d appreciate it if you could add a comment letting me know how it looks on your system/browser. Thanks.
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Hi there,
It looks super smashing great in IE6 and Opera6 on NT. It degrades fairly well in Netscape 4 too (the content is readable, but obviously there is no real layout -things just plop one after the other).
I’ve been reading this site for a few weeks now, and find it very enjoyable/informative (the pictures are superb too). Thanks for writing it! And, erm, photographing it! Or something.
Tristan
[Optional: About the etherfarm thing. To my experience, valid xhtml/css means that the page displays fine in Mozilla, and usually okay in IE but not always. The idea behind ‘valid’ pages, as I understand it, is to provide future compatibility. If future browsers are designed to W3C ‘recommendations’, valid pages should look fine. But yes, as always, there are still a million problems with everything. I’m really getting to hate the word depreciated]
Tristan–
thanks for the bug checking, and for your nice comments on the site as well. It’s always nice to know someone is looking.
The most frustrating thing about redesigning the blog was getting the thing to look right in both IE and Mozilla, and so I’m all about browsers being built to some unified standard. I shudder to think how it looks on N4, but maybe I should head on over to evolt and fine out.
kurt,
found your site via the good ol’ referral list. i think your site looks great! nice and clean…great job [and for the record, I’m viewing using Chimera on OS X 10.2].
And yeah, I know that code validation is intended for future browsers. My whole thing is this: I’ll code for those browsers when they get here. And even though I and everyone else is holding our breath, they’re not here yet.
Regarding looking at your site in NN4: don’t do it, particularly if you live in a city with tall buildings with open roof access.
resonance,
thank you for chiming in on chimera (geez, that was lame of me). your comments are appreciated, and your NN4 comment brought a well-needed chuckle just now. thanks for stopping by!