Vos Virtual Network » hacks http://vvn.net/wp Jazz Like Code and Music For Life Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:46:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Re-tooling my homepage with cool CSS hacks http://vvn.net/wp/2006/03/11/re-tooling-my-homepage-with-cool-css-hacks/ http://vvn.net/wp/2006/03/11/re-tooling-my-homepage-with-cool-css-hacks/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:01:57 +0000 admin http://vvn.net/wp/?p=9 Continue reading →]]> This morning, I was looking at some cool multi-column CSS hacks over on glish.com. One of the articles talked about a makeover the author did for Noah Grey. I’ve been reading about the concept of doing a CSS and web-standards makeover since reading how Wired magazine did their makover about 4 years ago… So this is not a new concept for me. I really like the concept of following web standards. Normally I follow web standards for simple layouts… but then I fall back to using tables if some shlocky old browser will not behave… It’s just that everytime I try it, it works great for one or two browsers, and then some other browser really messes up the layout. (Feels like I am confessing my sins.) So over the past few years, I have studied the concepts of cascading style sheets ( CSS1 and CSS2 ) and web standards, and tried to find the perfect layout techniques to do 3-column layout — without tables inside of tables and all that old cruft.

I enjoyed the CSS articles from glish and I really like the new Noah Grey web-site because it is a really clean page layout and I think his music page is interesting (but I have never listened to any of the music, so can’t recommend it.) [Note: J.V. says be careful what you recommend.]
This also led to a couple nice articles and example layouts over at bluerobot.com, and the cool 3 column layout example.

So I’m getting ready to re-tool my vvn.net homepage with some cool new CSS tricks — but I also need to fix some broken RSS feeds and test with some more browsers. I’ll let you know when the major upgrade is complete.

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