September 25, 2005
Over the weekend, we were glued to the TV set keeping an eye on the path of Hurricane Rita. Fortunately, we didn’t experience much more in Dallas than some moderately high wind and ominous grey storm clouds. In the late afternoon on Saturday I went out on the patio with my camcorder to catch some of the action. View a 49 second video (QuickTime, 4 MB, no audio) of a cardinal, dove, and squirrel hanging on tightly while the wind whipped between the buildings.
Edit: I decided the video could use a fun soundtrack, so here’s another version with music (QuickTime, 6 MB, with music). The music is Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee. I don’t know… it just seemed to fit.
Categories: General
September 21, 2005
Well, I’ve gotta say that creating sites with purely CSS-based layouts (table-less) is… well… really hard! It’s not so much a problem marking up the content with valid, semantic XHTML code and styling that page with CSS. It’s just that things start to go haywire when I start to add the structure of the page with floats, clears, and other layout elements. I end up spending huge amounts of time trying to figure out why a small section of the site looks vastly different from one browser and/or platform to the next. And sometimes really mysterious things happen… like an entire section of the page will randomly disappear until I roll the cursor over it. Ugh!
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Categories: Accessibility, Web Standards
September 4, 2005
I had an interesting experience this afternoon. While I was shopping for produce at my local Whole Foods (health food store), my brother, who lives in Australia, called my mobile phone. He had some CSS coding questions.
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Categories: General
September 4, 2005
There have been many online resources that I’ve found extremely valuable over the past couple of years of learning about Web standards development. I thought I’d take some time and share them—with you and with myself for later reference.
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Categories: Resources, Web Standards
September 1, 2005
I was having some difficulties with the header throughout the site. If you increased the text size quite a bit (to simulate what a visually impaired user might experience), the main navigation links along the top-right of the window would cover up the logo on the left.
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Categories: General
