Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Re Do Everything

I’ve been buried knee deep in CSS and HTML code for the past little while I’m I’m *very* close to being done with my site’s re-design.

You may notice that I’ve added a couple of categories, “iMovie Mondays” and “Favorite Entries.” These are obviously pretty self explanatory. I’ve been sorely tempted to nuke the “fiction” section since it’s glaringly empty and I’m too a-scared to post anything. But, I’m going to leave it up in the possible vain hope that I’ll grow a spine someday.

Anyway, CSS is pretty amazing. (It’s the wave of the future, kids!) Though as usual, I’m about three years late on that party. If you are serious about writing any kind of CSS code, I heartily recommend CSSEdit. Combine it with BBEdit and you’ve got yourself a really nice little code writing environment. I bought it mere minutes after downloading the try-out version. For me the hugest pain in doing CSS code was being able to see the changes I’d made to the CSS code and how those changes would affect the layout, etc. I’d have to upload the CSS file to the server, flush my cache and reload the page. Lather, rinse, repeat ad infinitum. Ugh. CSSEdit has a very nice “Live Preview” which makes editing the CSS code about as painless as possible. And I’m pretty sure it uses WebKit as its internal rendering engine, so whatever I write will look nice in Safari.

IE is another matter entirely, of course. But no one uses Internet Explorer anymore do they? Oh, wait… Man, what a pain in the booty.

Anyway, the official “Ransom Note Typography” re-launch date is September 23, but I might just pull the trigger early and then start working out the bugs.

Now I feel know how Microsoft feels when they roll out new software!

Ship it now and patch it later!

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