Texas Theme

I've been tinkering around with stylesheets and html and such over the weekend, and think I finally have come up with a theme for version 5 of this site. It's going to be a very Texas theme this time, and other than (probably over the top) Texas flourishes, very very simple.

Now I just have to see if the basic layout that tests out fine in IE6 will be okay in some other browsers. The first design was actually going to be a very complex thing fashioned out of CSS, but unfortunately, truly standards-compliant browsers like Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla 1.3 broke the darn thing, and there was no real workaround that didn't break things in other browsers. Blar.

And that's just the basic screen layout. I've done no real work on inline stuff like fonts and colors and sizes and all that crap. But the major goal is to create something that gives the user ultimate control -- especially over font size and scaling and even viewing method (which will all actually make the inline stuff much easier for me to deal with). I cringe every time I look at the absolute pixel sizes on the current design for this site (but, in my defense, it's an OLD design, and was my first effort to learn CSS and go table-less when few people were doing it -- hence, my #69 at the old list of table-less sites, which now has hundreds of sites listed).

Anyway, progress.... slow as it may be. And once that stuff's done, then it will be time to port over to a new back end powered by Nucleus, with comments and other fun stuff.

[Posted at 21:09 CST on 06/15/03] [Link]