Re-Design/Overhaul/Revelation
Shortly you will see the results of the past 14 days of work on this website. The CSS has been completely overhauled as has the design, and I am in the process (slow and laborious I might add) of converting the inspirations and past updates to be compatible not as much with the new site design but with standards compliant HTML. The site is now fully standards compliant; an accomplishment that will make it work both now and in the future. Thank goodness!
As for the design, there are some things worth noting. The triple colon up top is a nod to Jeffrey Zeldman and is not a blatant act of thievery. Continuing on: I agnoized over whether or not to go fixed width; IE 6.0’s royal screwing upage of the box model (notably its incorrect application of margins) is what finally made me decide that it wasn’t worth the hassle of coming up with some other weird application of the two column float method and I made the columns fixed width as well. Perhaps someday I will change over to a more liquid layout; thankfully the standards compliant frontend and my new-found awareness of uniform tagging will make whatever switch that occurs in the future relatively painless.
Another thing I’d like to share: the colors and in some part the design of this website were inspired by my old Pioneer SX-850. Both a search for a color scheme and my complete satisfaction with this amp made me decide to use these colors. I predict CSS themes will be added in the future; but first I need to make everything on this site work. If you are not seeing the new design now, you will in the next couple of days.
Next, I have not written one formatting tag in this update yet. Thanks to some advice from d. at waferbaby, I decided to use PHP to detec line breaks and spaces and then accurately render them upfront here. This is a great way to do things because the database stores more of what it was meant to: PLAIN TEXT. These are realizations I should have come to long ago, but the last version of this website was my first database driven site, and I realize that learning these things by experience takes time.
Therefore, this is alex’s website, version 9.0 beta renamed ajmicek’s. There were, I must add, 8 other versions of this website - honestly! Thus, what you see is truly the product of the evolution of my virtual home online. I look forward to talking to you all through this medium in the years to come.
Now go exploring!