Yesterday I realized that I really need to get on with the redesign when I had to add an !important to get a CSS-rule to apply. Thanks to Firebug 1.0 beta I got a painful visualization of how inefficient the current code can be, my custom rules on top of the Sanbox “Kubrick” skin.
I will kick off this recurring series with an overview of the basic layout options we have at our disposal. It’s nothing especially earth-shattering, but it’s an important issue to think through properly and just because it seem so basic few do. You might already have heard it a thousand times, that “the web isn’t print”, until your ears fell off. But it’s so true when it comes to layout. In print you can easily sketch up a few layout solution to pick from, based on the page size, proportion and content, and call it a day. The web is something completely different as a medium: the user has complete control over the browser viewport size and font size.
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To quote Kenneth Himschoot:
Our W3C, which art on the net:
Hallowed be thy markup.
Thy workingdrafts come.
Thy Specs be done in Mozilla as they are in Opera.
Give us this day our daily XHTLM and forgive us our hacks and workarounds, as we forgive all tablebased designers.
And lead us not to invalid code but deliver us from IE5.
Amen.
Over the coming months, I’m going to tear down and redesign this site. I plan to do it slowly, making it a great practice and learning experience for me personally. What I plan to do is chronicle the process, describe steps I’m going to take, what the options are and the rationale behind my choices.
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September 21, 2006 – 22:07
Matt Mullenweg’s business card allegedly instructs people just to enter “Matt” and hit “I’m Feeling Lucky” to get to his site. Well, now I can instruct people to enter “Ironicist” and hit “I’m Feeling Lucky”… should I dare to say that it feels “ironic”?
September 18, 2006 – 18:38
I’m currently working on an article that make use of some math notation. Normally, in such cases, when you need something out of the ordinary that can’t easily be marked up as XHTML you render an image (yes, I know about MathML). It’s quite easy to render beautiful math formulae off-line. But making the round-trip out of WordPress can also be quite annoying, especially if you do a lot of tweaking and I normally do a lot of tweaking.
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A couple of days ago I stated that I hadn’t yet begun looking for a navigation link plugin for WordPress yet, because I imagined that I could write one just as quickly myself rather than sift through a zillion plugins that all do the same thing in addition to suffering from bad cases of optionitis.
But I didn’t exactly start to write a plugin after I penned that. Nor did I start to look for one.
Until today. Writing one that is.
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