Wednesday, 19. August 2009, 22:45:08
Santa Rosa, Zapino, ZAP, zapworld.com
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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...).
Sunday, 29. July 2007, 08:14:58
Free Clinic, layout, Sonoma County, 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)--
Read more...
Thursday, 27. April 2006, 05:30:33
CSS3, web, layout, columns
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Although CSS3 has not yet become the specification for the web, there is one new development which seems very exciting for the purposes of layout: an attribute selector tentatively called "column-count". This attribute allows the author to format text to flow into a predetermined number of columns of equal height, the way you can do with a desktop publishing program like InDesign or Quark. Mozilla Firefox/Seamonkey is already experimenting with this attribute. Unfortunately it only works in Mozilla browsers as of this writing, though I'm hoping Opera jumps on this too. As I said in another post: who cares what that atavistic browser parody, IE 7, 8, whatever-- does with
their product.
Anyway, here's a sample
Lorem Ipsum example of the
column-count attribute set to "3". Take a look at it in a basic text editor; see how basic the markup is. To view the style in action, however, you'll have to be in a recent vintage Mozilla browser.
Anyway,
I'm thrilled. But then, I'm easily captivated by shiny objects and other trivial things.
Friday, 14. April 2006, 07:41:03
css, New York Times, webmaster, layout
I've been working really hard on layouts using as much CSS as will display properly across browsers, and I've been trying to go for a very clean, polished look. I'm not always successful, so I decided to see how they did their layout at, say... the NY Times (I mean, these people have several
fonts named after them
fergodssake... so they must know something about layout & design, right?)
OK, so I check them out, and downloaded their two main stylesheets, and lookie what I found at the bottom of
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/css/common/global.css: (for those following along at home, scroll to the
verry bottom of the page, and check out the webmaster's comments:
/* move this crap to section front if needed, what a mess... - James
ul, ol {
padding-left: 0px;
margin-left: 18px;
_margin-left: 22px;
}
*/
Now, far from criticising, I actually find it refreshing that someone, at this level of their profession, can find it frustrating to deal with the demands of a high-powered client who
wants things to be a certain way... regardless of whether it will work with the unyielding demands of the technical environment.
Anyway, you can go to the URL listed above & download the stylesheet for yourself (and you might as well download the HTML file and
this stylesheet while you're at it.
Enjoy
"Never trust a newspaper that doesn't have a comics page."
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