Digital Analogue

Time for an upgrade

It's been a loooong time since I've done a site upgrade. This place was already looking pretty dated a few years ago, and time has not treated it well. It had gotten to where I hesitated to post links because I knew I'd get the inevitable "Comic sans? Really?", among other snarky comments. And of course the web has long since moved away from coloured backgrounds, even light ones; pretty much anything other than white (or off-white) is hard to find among sharp-looking websites. But if I was changing things, I wanted to do more than just a trivial font change and a switch to a white background; other elements of the layout reflected an older web, and the last time I did a doc crawl on this stuff it was still the heady early days of CSS2, so probably more than ten years ago. You might be surprised to learn this, but a lot has changed in ten years.

So I'm working on a new design. A few minor changes will roll out early (where they show up directly in the HTML), but I want to wait to slide in the new CSS until I've tested it on multiple browsers. Soon, though.

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." --Robert Heinlein