Drew McLellan, Dreamweaver pundit extraordinaire, has written an excellent article on creating CSS layouts using Dreamweaver 2004. The CSS is provided for you to scrutinize at your leisure; the article doesn't slow down to explain the code, but moves through the various processes … [Read more...] about CSS layouts and lists
Web Design
Search query poetry
Reading through the search queries on this site affords endless amusement, especially if you rearrange them like refrigerator poetry: NaNoWriMo TypePad Orlando Bloom zen calendar spank Boston dead people movable past "what possible use?" Tivo archives Buffy viable … [Read more...] about Search query poetry
LJ snafu fixed, I think
The LJ feed should be working again in about half an hour. If you get three months' worth of posts all at once…. sorry. Mea culpa. Update: Oy. That sucked. Back to normal now. … [Read more...] about LJ snafu fixed, I think
Zen beauty
At first, I liked the idea of the CSS Zen Garden but wasn't really taken with any of the designs there. I adore two of the newest ones, though: Atlantis and Zunflower. … [Read more...] about Zen beauty
Bye
I'm taking a break from the net for a little while in order to focus on writing. I'll be back… eventually… … [Read more...] about Bye
Authorlink
It's not often that I find a site so awful I feel the need to point it out in public, but today I ran across one of those exceptions. Authorlink, a site supposedly featuring resources for writers, is so terribly organized that, if they hired me to redo it, I can't even say where … [Read more...] about Authorlink
Netscape dead; long live Mozilla
This has been talked about everywhere, but I know some of my readers don't keep up with tech news, so here you go. As was expected once AOL settled their lawsuit against Microsoft in May, they've laid off the remaining Netscape team and killed the project. However, they've also … [Read more...] about Netscape dead; long live Mozilla
The importance of the humble bullet point
I was skimming over the IMDB home page this morning, and the top two headlines caught my eye: * John Leguizamo Weds Schwarzenegger Pumps Up American Soldiers I didn't see the bullets at first—not the first time that's happened on this page—and I read "John … [Read more...] about The importance of the humble bullet point
Redesign complete…
… more or less. It's taken me a few hours to get all the small things right, and even now I'm missing some things under the hood (like accesskeys and, oh yeah, validation). I actually find it harder to redesign site-wide in Movable Type, not just because I never know … [Read more...] about Redesign complete…
Transition
Buckle your seatbelts… … [Read more...] about Transition