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A good bit of redesign

chris on 2005-Sep-19 10:46 AM

Pardon the dust on my site -- I'm in the middle of a pretty substantial redesign. Most of the pages you'll see (news, static content) look generally okay. A lot of the behind-the-scenes stuff (like the form I'm using to enter this news article) still looks like ass, but that's not as high a priority.

This has been my first large use of CSS, and since I have neither color sense nor the patience to do all this stuff from scratch, I borrowed very heavily from David Wheeler's site. His site looks great, and the last time I saw it Bricolage looked really sharp so I figure he knows what he's doing.

So for the general layout of the site I entirely ditched tables. It seems to work ok on my main three target browsers: Firefox 1, Safari and IE 6. (It's funny how 'my target browsers' and 'the browsers I have access to' coincide...) I've also been looking at losing tables for laying out forms but that seems to be a little more cutting edge than I'm comfortable with, although I think I'll modify everything to use the 'label' tag that accompanies a form input. Fortunately, the way OI2 builds up forms is semi-programmatic, so I may be able to modify one or two templates and change all the forms as a result.

More on this soon...

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Remember Me?

Chris,

Remember a friend/acquaintance from your West Potomac days? I ran into an old friend and believe it or not your name came up. I figured I would Google you and see what came up. Given your advanced computer skills circa 1987 I figured you would have some sort of website. I lost track of you when you went to Pitt. Glad to see you are doing well. I am married and living in Falls Church. Working for a company called ESRI which you may be familiar with from your transportation planning days. At any rate, thought I would drop you a quick note. The magic of the Internet never ceases to amaze..

Regards,

Eric Maier

Posted by Eric Maier on September 21, 2005 4:42 PM

Hey I am Eric Maier Too

Just to let you know that i am eric maier too.

Posted by Eric Maier on February 25, 2006 5:04 AM

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