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A new look
Mar 14 Sun (03 PM)
It’s only a modification, but I’ve been wanting to shape up the journal again. The brown motif was just a bit too garish and the frames and such were way too heavy. This feels a bit lighter, and a bit more me.
I’ve been considering adding some graphical elements, but I just haven’t taken the time. I suppose that if I could run Photoshop and Netscape on my machine at the same time, I might really consider it.
With this re-design I’ve even gone ahead and updated the page with the form that I write with to match. It looks pretty slick. Maybe I should post a screen shot like Dave Weiner does on Scripting News.
I really ought to test out the newer version of the regex I’ve been using to find URLs in a run of text. Say, for instance, I put in an address like http://www.depechemode.com. The period shouldn’t get highlighted. As far as I can tell, once the regex reaches a character that isn’t a letter, a numeral, or ‘/’, followed by a punctuation mark, a > a space or a newline, then that should be the end of the URL. Does that sound right?
Playing with Cascading Style sheets last week really broke down the readability of the site. I still want to start setting all the font sizes by pixel height, even if it makes it difficult for people to print out these pages. If they’re really having problems, they can copy and paste the text of the pages themselves.
Like they mentioned on A List Apart 2, This site is _mine_ and is not limited to the restrictions of “Making it viewable for all browsers.” As long as I stick to good clean code that follows standards, then I should feel comfortable.
Right now I’m downlading the 68k version of iCab, the new Mac-based web browser. It’s got a very small foot print and some cool features that will make it good for web developers as well as browsers. Check it out at http://www.icab.de.
That’s enough tech stuff for this entry. The next will be a bit more on the personal side.