I've made it halfway through Zeldman's book, and I'm liking what I'm reading. But, naturally, there's a very non-silver lining.
The cloud hovering overhead is the whole issue of transitional coding. I buy into the concept, but in practice I'm less sanguine: there are not-infrequent occasions when sites using CSS completely munge on me.
In some instances this may be due to outdated browsers, since I'm surfing on multiple platforms, with multiple brand browsers, in multiple versions. There's really nothing I can do on this aspect - I'm always going to have users on older equipment and software, and it's been a hallmark of Snurcher's from the beginning that that's okay. Users should be able to get in, get want they want, and get out, with only the smallest modicum of fuss necessary.
In some instances, perhaps even the same ones as above, it may be due to poor CSS coding. In theory, this is completely avoidable on a well-designed and implemented site. But this is also my first time out of the gate, CSS-wise, and managing a site the size of Snurcher's perfectly would be a tough first assignment.
And yet, now that I look back on this Winter's redesign, all I can say is, "Ick! Look at all those FONT tags! All those ALIGN and BGCOLOR tags! All those nested TABLE structures!"
Sigh. A little knowledge is *such* a dangerous thing...
Posted at March 9, 2004 12:55 PM in Science & Tech