There Can Only Be One Webmastar...
Nitroadict . 2 comments . permalink
February 10, 2009 at
3:41 PM
Pure-CSS is proving to be a huge headache in maintaining this site, & I haven't even really written anything, so that speaks volumes about the so-called "Semantic" approach.
This is especially true when I have at least 10
So, I'm going to scale back the excessive CSS use & use the dreaded, reliable Tables method. However, even table advocates remember what a headache nesting is, so I'll go the sensibly Hybrid approach & only use DIV's when absolutely necessary.
In other words, I'm becoming a better designer. Horray?
In any case, the layout will remain largley unchanged; it was a simple one that was easy to emulate with the use of tables anyways.
The one big difference will be that anyone using older browsers (IE 5 - 6, Netscape 4.8, etc.) will not be SOL (Sh*t out of Luck), which oddly enough, the grand "mastar" plan of the semantic web has a double standard for, & only likes to give plain HTML to those stuck @ the office with Windows 2000 & a burdened budget.
It's also been a bit of time since launch, & I still haven't implemented the finishing touches for the site:
+ Further CSS compression to ensure bandwidth costs (parsing it with PHP, instead of simply linking it via PHP)
+ Finalizing the "project" I've been working on (the one I've been using this site as sort of a test-bed for) that will help with the above, as well as being better organized in general.
+ Finishing the sidebar with a tag list and/or a tag cloud. This might be ditched because I already have a labels list beneath each post, so if it feels redundant, this won't be used until I get A.) mucho traffic & B.) another site design in a year or so
Obviously, the elephant in the room is original content , but the only time I've ever had time to not let offline life interfere with online life was back in High School when I didn't have any obligations.
That will take a little while longer :\
But hey, I'm not kidding myself into thinking this blog will go anywhere either, so at least there's no false advertising :p
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This is especially true when I have at least 10
DIV's in a given page (actual number: ovar 9,000, all roughly the same line length, doing a terrible job for my eyes in separating the parts of the page, come editing time. So, I'm going to scale back the excessive CSS use & use the dreaded, reliable Tables method. However, even table advocates remember what a headache nesting is, so I'll go the sensibly Hybrid approach & only use DIV's when absolutely necessary.
In other words, I'm becoming a better designer. Horray?
In any case, the layout will remain largley unchanged; it was a simple one that was easy to emulate with the use of tables anyways.
The one big difference will be that anyone using older browsers (IE 5 - 6, Netscape 4.8, etc.) will not be SOL (Sh*t out of Luck), which oddly enough, the grand "mastar" plan of the semantic web has a double standard for, & only likes to give plain HTML to those stuck @ the office with Windows 2000 & a burdened budget.
It's also been a bit of time since launch, & I still haven't implemented the finishing touches for the site:
+ Further CSS compression to ensure bandwidth costs (parsing it with PHP, instead of simply linking it via PHP)
+ Finalizing the "project" I've been working on (the one I've been using this site as sort of a test-bed for) that will help with the above, as well as being better organized in general.
+ Finishing the sidebar with a tag list and/or a tag cloud. This might be ditched because I already have a labels list beneath each post, so if it feels redundant, this won't be used until I get A.) mucho traffic & B.) another site design in a year or so
Obviously, the elephant in the room is original content , but the only time I've ever had time to not let offline life interfere with online life was back in High School when I didn't have any obligations.
That will take a little while longer :\
But hey, I'm not kidding myself into thinking this blog will go anywhere either, so at least there's no false advertising :p
