meaning building 2004
Posted on December 20th, 2003 in site news and
meaning building 2004 is finally at a point where I feel comfortable bringing the site quietly on-line, which means I’ve added new projects (see the practice section) and retooled a few of the older projects as well; the remaining projects will come soon enough. The foto gallery will be on-line sometime after the holidays (not sure yet what format it will assume), as will a good many of my writings from the past few years, to be indexed in the texts section of the site – not that anyone might want to read them, BUT… Most exciting for me is the implementation of Movable Type’s most excellent weblog application – very powerful and very customizable. I’m sure this blog will evolve over time as I discover the full potential of the application etc etc.
As far as design methodology, this site embodies my recent ascent, or descent, into the world of web standards and css-based design. Much insight was gained on web standards and css from A List Apart, Jeffrey Zeldman, and Stop Design, to name a few. I’ve opted for an xhtml-transitional framework with reliance on a main structural table for each page layout (i.e. this is not pure css positioning). I’ve also not yet validated my code with W3C – but I will soon. If anyone out there notices any wierdness in terms of bugs, broken links, or whatever, please drop me a line – but I think I’m good to go in most of the modern browsers.
As far as the real work of this site, some new projects are in the initial stages and will be moving forward after the new year. Particularly interesting is a community design competition for a vacant lot in our neighborhood that J. Meredith Warner and I are organizing in cooperation with the Champaign County Historical Museum – more to come later.
Enjoy.
The site looks excellent! I really like the muted tones and thin lines… very nice.
jb -
excellent update. proud of you, and have a lot to learn from your new discoveries.
- kr