What’s the point of having a website if you don’t redesign it once in a while?
I never was really satisfied with the last look. I like minimalist, but that was bad minimalist. In my opinion, this is a vast improvement.
Monthly Archive for May, 2004
We have a pair of trees that bloom for all of 5 days, then leave us lots to clean up. But boy are those 5 days worth it. Here’s a close up that Maureen took:
- Parent’s Anniversary
- Dad’s Birthday
- Mother’s Day
- Our Anniversary
- Christopher’s Birthday
So, we added another event today, as Christopher now has a new cousin. It was so cute - at the hospital Christopher wanted to hold the baby the entire time, getting upset whenever he was taken away. That bodes well for this December when he gets his sibling.
I just posted a review of “Eric Meyer on CSS” on Amazon. It should appear there shortly.
This is an excellent follow-up to “Eric Meyer on CSS.” Meyer starts us in the same place as the original - turning an old-style table-based layout with font tags galore and showing how to trim the page size down using CSS for layout and formatting. The next 2 projects (Styling a Photo Collection and Styling a Financial Report) again hearken back to the original in that you are trying to complete a specific task. Along the way you are introduced to progressively more difficult concepts.
The gravy starts with Project 4 and continues through the rest of the book. Meyer leads us through some of the cutting-edge uses of CSS today and makes them work across today’s popular browsers. When there is a problem rendering an effect in a particular browser, Meyer explains the pros and cons of using the technique.
This book is rated Intermediate-Advanced (same as the first book). Take that to heart. The projects in this book are harder than the corresponding project in the original. Neither teaches the basics. They make a great 1-2 punch and reading them in succession is a great idea. Make sure you follow along at the computer and do the projects - just reading them is helpful, but practice, practice, practice is absolutely necessary to really “get it”.
Meyer again mentions that if you have read his previous books and don’t like his writing tone, pass on this book. I find his writing style engaging. If you don’t, consider getting the book anyhow - what you will learn from it should exceed any cringing you do at the style.