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March 12, 2004
Slapnose: Now Table Free!

I've made a few changes to the blog here. They're subtle, some completely invisible, but it still took me all day.

The background is a different color, and we have a keen fadey edge thing going on. The sidebar now extends all the way to the bottom, eliminating that pesky float, and all the IE 5 Mac incompatibility (well, some of it).

My blockquotes are now featuring a striking gold background.

Most importantly, and ironically most transparently, this page is now completely table free. Huzzah!

Why is this important? It's all about separating content from design. With no dern tables, I'll be able to change my design much more easily, the code is much more readable, and it's just the right thing to do. Soon perhaps I'll throw up one of them style switcher jobbies to demonstrate.

Also of note is the new "MoBlog" thing on the sidebar. It's just a little gallery for photos I snap with my camera phone.

Please let me know if all of this looks like crap on your particular setup. It's a distinct possibility.

In the next couple days I'll update the rest of the site with these changes. It's all so exciting.

(thanks to http://simplebits.com and http://alistapart.com for inspiration and help.)

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nice work. i'm getting really into clean simple semantic markup with css as complex as necessary. My own site is not a great example right now, but I'm doing it right on a soon-to-launch freelance project. It's funny how we've gone from dirt simple HTML with Mosaic to crazy-talk HTML with NS4 back to simple HTML with today's browsers. Sort of like life. Or something.