These pages have been redesigned to rely more on CSS (cascading style sheets) for the page layout. The web pages were all laid out using the HTML tables. CSS, now more mature than when I originally designed these pages eight years ago, is very convenient for building page design. But I'm new to this layout method, and so you will occasionally find pages with text on top of text, a "feature" of CSS.

I found the O'Reilly book, Cascading Style Sheets by Eric Meyer, invaluable. But I was inspired by the book CSS, DHTML & AJAX by Jason Cranford Teague.

I have also revised the Table of Contents (on the left column) so that it better reflects the heirarchy of the pages. In fact, that was a complete rewrite to an object oriented programming style. I will be doing more with the those routines soon. (I want them to generate tooltip popups with the description of the pages.)

The Blog (formally called the Journal) is still the antique Perl based engine Blosxom, but with a few new plugins, including blox and a few to enable using my table of contents module.

Still to be done: the Photos section which entirely generated on the fly by some of my Perl code.

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