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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 http://www.blosxom.com], but with a few new plugins, including
[blox http://www.blosxom.com/plugins/display/blox.htm] 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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