The new look
I spent today working on the site’s new look. Why? Because daddy felt like sans-serifs, that’s why. I know the layout’s nothing original, but while I appreciate what Joseph Wain over at Niggle is doing with the layout, I’d prefer to know what to expect. As the content here kicks up a notch, I may revisit this–but right now I’m feeling the standard blog layout.
It’s XHTML 1.0 transitional and CSS 2.1 compliant. I love the hell out of web standards, and I spent about an hour running over the code which scrapes my Bloglines account, trying to figure out where the dropped <li> tag was in a forest of list elements. Still, it validates, with one minor flaw–no table summary for the calendar. WordPress runs that on its own, so I’m going to delve into its depths tomorrow and fix that oversight.
I don’t think I need to say it, but anyways–this site’s under construction and will rumble around a lot. It looks horrible in IE5.5 and lower, but renders perfectly in IE7b1, IE6, FF, and O8. Will test Mac browsers tomorrow. It’s bedtime.
Edit: Is it just me, or did the Textile plugin for Wordpress just start eating everything all of a sudden. I fed it the < character, then <, and each time it turned “<li>” into an actual <li> element. It’s on the curb now. Textile’s a nice shorthand (esp. for tables), but not if it can’t play nicely.