CSS all the way

In February of 2003, I relaunched my website with a CSS-only design. No tables. Last fall, I redesigned to the current design and started using a single main table again. Well, I’m proud to announce that I’ve gone to a CSS design again—maintaining the current design but eliminating the table and added CSS instead.

What does this mean? Essentially that this website is using some of the latest methods available. For one thing, it makes future redesigns even easier—just change the CSS file and the whole design can change.

Special thanks to Faust for his cogent CSS ideas.

I’ve also changed the background image for the time being but that may change again as well. It’s an actual scan I made of graph paper and reduced to one infinitely repeating cell.

In other news, I’m nearly done reading William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. I’ve been a big Gibson fan ever since I first read Neuromancer during college in 1992. I’ve read all of his books. I remember Neuromancer as being spot on at the time—as if Gibson had written it last week instead of 1984. You’ll remember (or maybe not) that in 1992 the big computer news was Virtual Reality. That was what was going to take over the whole world. Well, it wasn’t to be—obviously it has applications but it’s nothing like what they were hyping back in the early 90’s. Of course Fall 1992 was when I first started using email (e.g. the Internet). I was living abroad and it was my only contact with my college back home since phone calls were so expensive. And fast forward to 1994 when the World Wide Web broke, and everything changed.

At any rate, I’ve tested this new CSS design in IE6.0 and Firefox 0.8. Let me know if you encounter any display glitches in your browser of choice.