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ZAP Newsletter

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NOTE: I just updated one of the links in the message, this is actually about a year old.

I've been a very busy busy boy, getting up to speed with two versions of Drupal (5.7 & 6.2) at ZapWorld, and moving to new digs in Santa Rosa. I redid most of the front page at zapworld.com (among many other things), but I just finished the April (May?) newsletter, which allowed me to indulge my more (but not most) creative side. I did pretty much everything in a text editor (for those CSS purists, it should be noted that few, if any, email clients display divs correctly, so I had to do my layout with tables), but I also did the two prominant banners, for the header (pictured below, with a link to the full page) and the Zapino, an electric scooter modeled on the ever-stylish Vespa. For the header banner, I even used one of the photos I took last summer in Glen Ellen (as one or two of my dedicated reader will surely recall...).


Welcome to beautiful suburb-o-politan Santa Rosa

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New picture album, featuring the town of Santa Rosa, self-proclaimed home of the late Charles Schultz, creator of the famous Peanuts cartoon series (Charlie Brown, for those unfortunate souls who live in countries far far away, without access to our fine American™ Cultural Traditions)

(self-proclaimed, anyway, by the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce. Schultz himself lived in Sebastopol, located one town over. And EVERYONE knows that Snoopy drinks ROOT BEER.)

...red wine, indeed...

:rolleyes:

Launched a new website...

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There isn't much to see so far (my contacts are a little slow getting me things like "content"-- something I'm beginning to suspect is somewhat endemic to this crazy web-building biz...), so this is just the layout (and temporary at best)--

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New place! (in physical space)

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Just moved into a 2 bedroom townhouse in Santa Rosa a couple of days ago. I have an internet connection in the place, but no router, so as soon as I get that hooked up (oh, and a desk...), then... I'll probably never leave home. Anyway, I've got to find a new job to pay for all this, so I'll be keeping this short (so I can cut out of here quickly & run).

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Worked on some CSS last night, trying to pare down a 3 column layout to the barest essentials. Because the

tag has proven so ineffective as a layout device, I'm back to using tables to block out the desktop real estate. I heard the W3C was trying to deprecate tables as a layout device, but apparently (due to wildly inconsistant implementations in different browsers) they are actually expanding the table specification in CSS.

I have a pretty good 3 column layout that works consistantly in the three major Windows browsers, so I'm going to be working on some sample sites soon.

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