More on The Zen of CSS Design...
Again, the book is
The Zen of CSS Design
by Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag. And the companion web site is
http://www.CSSZenGarden.com.
I'm really liking this book and I recommend it highly for anybody
doing any web development. For one thing, it's really well
written. The authors can go from the touchy feely aspects of
light and shadow to the grubby details of getting around browser CSS
incompatibilities without missing a beat. I like how they use
each example page as a springboard for discussion. And the Zen
Garden designs are inspirational and fun.
So inspirational, that I've decided to move my little corner of the
interweb from "HTML 4.01 Transitional" to "XHTML 1.0 Strict" gradually
as I update things. (Although this blog is "XHTML 1.0
Transitional" and will remain so, because blogs are so much more
practical that way.)
BayProg
So a couple weeks ago I rewrote all 26 pages (!!!) of the
BayProg
site as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Anything remotely presentation-like
has been moved to Style Sheets. The frames have been torn down
and replaced with "Server Side Includes" material. Lists of
items are presented in a nicer and more consistant way. The
menubar implementation has moved from JavaScript to CSS, and it uses
"Image Replacement" for the images. I also did a nicer
implementation of the album dropshadows.
Overall it went pretty smoothly, and now the BayProg is a bit cleaner,
slicker, and should be compatible with mobile devices.
ARP Synthesizer Patents Article
Two additional ARP synthesizer patents have been discovered; the
patent for the ARP Avatar Guitar Synthesizer (thanks MikeI!) and a
patent for a low-tech polyphonic keyboard (thanks Armand
Pascetta!). So I wrote up reviews of those, converted the
ARP Patents
article to XHTML, and prettied it up a bit.
So there ya go.
