23 June 2001
24 Count, CSS2, and Cutrufello
Paul Gross, the lead singer from 24 Count was looking through the mail-list info they collected from the Fitzgerald's show, recognized my email addy from an earlier post on their message board, and emailed yesterday, which I thought was pretty cool. He wanted to know what Callie and I thought of the performance. Of course, I raved about it. I also exchanged a few emails with his girlfriend, who does their booking. What a nice bunch of people! And talented to boot. Proof that all of the bands I like are not constituted of ingrates! Some of them can even manage to put together a nice website. :)
I've been enjoying our bootleg minidisc of the show today, despite the occasional MAJOR sound foulups, courtesy of the people at Fitzgerald's. It was really BAD. A few times, they cut out Paul's vocals entirely. He lost his acoustic guitar a few times. I don't think the dude EVER got the bass player's setup right. And the occasional LOUD distortions were NOT caused by the band. Paul offered to let us cut a soundboard MD at the next show we see. Have I mentioned how nice it is to discover a talented band that is not constituted of ingrates? Yes, I guess I have.
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I've spent today learning more CSS2 in the ongoing redesign of the website. I've had the concept and graphics for the redesign worked out for a while, but I wanted to use this redesign to teach myself some advanced aspects CSS2 as well as to write a standards-compliant site. So, I've been puttering around, learning differents ways of presenting the layouts like I want, and the benefits/drawbacks to doing them certain ways, as well as the continuing problem of browser implementation of standards (interestingly, all 3 major browsers, IE 5.5, NS 6, and Opera 5.1, do a pretty good job with standards compliance, but each one has a few CSS2 problems and each one implements minor things differently. Accounting for that is a learning experience in itself). Plus, much like moving was a useful time to throw out lots of crap that I never use anymore, so too the redesign is a useful opportunity to consider what I want to keep on the site and what can go. This time, I'm tossing a bunch of stuff! Finally, I have to figure out how to deal with the older stuff in terms of whether it can be ported over to the new design (the greymatter stuff can easily) or not (much of that stuff -- aside from the journal -- is slated for the recycle bin!). Overall, I'm pleased with how things are progressing. The new look is going to be crisp and clean (and gray, very gray).
An evening break from it will involve catching Mary Cutrufello in a rare appearance at Rudyard's (or anywhere, of late). It should be a damn fine show.
[Posted @ 07:16 PM CST]
