New Design
May 1st, 2003 4:55 pm

Well, I am working on cutting up the new design as we speak. Once I get the code ready, then we can load in the MovableType templates, and voila! I also got the forums back to the way they looked before. Frankly, it matches well with our new design, so my planned skin may not come about.

Jetteva did most of the work on this design cribbing a few things from another template he had. We will attempt to be 100% XHTML compatible and 100% CSS, but I can’t promise anything right now. The new design is a great deal more detailed and graphic heavy, so I may cheat and use a few tables here and there.

Speaking of CSS and tables, SitePoint has announced their new book: HTML Utopia: Designing Without Tables Using CSS. I downloaded the sample chapters and it looks pretty interesting. I was thinking last night about how CSS and XML/XHTML have really changed the landscape of web design. I sat wondering what the next big watershed change will be. Hopefully, I will think of it and can be paid millions to write books and give seminars. It’ll be like winning some lottery, only greatly legitimized.

Stay tuned for the new design!

Posted in Site News by Alex Ezell
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Jetteva
May 2nd, 2003 8:38 am

Up till now we have always stuck with a more straight forward “design-less” design to our site. We always used the excuse that we weren’t designers and we didn’t want to do a full design for fear it would look really bad. But I worked on a design for awhile, and with a lot of help from Taranis and Cosbysweater, we came up with something we really like. It will have a real “urban decay” feel to it.

We hope you all like it when the backend gets plugged into the design.