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Earlier tonight I finished

March 8, 2001 by Michael Boyle

the initial run at a new layout I’m doing for another project (you can see it soon, don’t worry). It’s pretty simple, really, but it does rely on positioning a minimum number of things exactly in the right spot. If they’re not there the whole idea breaks down. Anyhow – even though I did it in plain old tables, same as always, it still took a while to get it right – and it’s still not perfect in NS 4.7x. So it occurs to me that I could do the site entirely in CSS, perhaps – make the best of a learning opportunity. Lo and behold, Eric Costello has been following the work people are doing in this regard very closely! So I’m going to give it a try. The problem I foresee is that all of the layouts/designs I’ve seen are very airy and light. That’s great – but for this project it’s not exactly the vibe I’m after. So it’ll be a bit of a different kind of challenge, I think. Chunkier.

Tags: CSS, Design, Layout

Ohmygod! My friend

March 8, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Ed (who, appropriately enough, works as an ed) seems to think there’s a ball in the sky. Sheesh – what’s next?

Tags: Friend

Over at Onfocus

March 8, 2001 by Michael Boyle

, Paul Bausch writes that he’s reading McLuhan‘s Understanding Media. I like to know that people are still reading McLuhan – although it’s easy to just ignore old-time theory like his, at another level his (and contemporaneous theorists’) work delineates the very conceptual borders of the world we’re living in now. Like it or not.

Tags: Media

On that note

March 7, 2001 by Michael Boyle

, yesterday I finally managed to overcome my phobia of the blank page (and my usual inability to execute the design ideas I have in my head due to sheer incompetence) and developed a solid mockup of montrealstories.org. I’m very happy with the direction things are going in now, and it looks like I can get the site launched in a few days or a week, depending on some pieces that have yet to come in.

Tags: Design, Montreal

Astute readers

March 7, 2001 by Michael Boyle

will notice that I’ve upgraded the list of links over on the side there. I added Consolation Champs, David Hudson’s Rewired weblog, and (finally) Brad Graham’s Bradlands. I’d been thinking of ditching the whole list – it’s so old school – but then again, it’s useful to me. So it stays.

Tags: Blogging, Links, Web, Wired

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