Rebooted Baby!

Posted on May 1st, 2005 @ 12:35 PM EST

After a hectic week of juggling between projects and working on this site, the redesign of XHTMLed is complete! Now I can finally get some sleep! All of the pages should validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0. The site has been thoroughly tested in Safari, Camino, OmniWeb, Firefox, Mozilla, IE 6, IE 5.5, Netscape, and Opera and everything looks good in all browsers except for the following:

  1. Borders in the Photographs section are not vertically lining up in Safari.
  2. The hyperlinks in the footer of the page do not work in IE due to a bug in IE’s implementation of style filters. Unfortunately, there isn’t a fix for this that I know of unless I use a GIF instead of a PNG image. The PNG image has a much smoother gradient compared to a GIF when it is used over top of a background that isn’t a solid color. So if you are still using IE here’s yet another reason to switch to Firefox.

If you notice any problems besides the ones listed above I’d appreciate it if you would post a comment or drop me an email and let me know.

Since I just decided to redesign the site two weeks ago, I didn’t have much time to work on the site. I started last Sunday and am pretty happy with the end result after scrambling to put something together to meet today’s deadline. I didn’t have a chance to add a bunch of new features so it is basically just a facelift, although I did add a Links page and made it so the last five links that have been added will appear in the sidebar on every page. There is also an RSS feed for it that you can subscribe to in your news reader as well. I also got rid of the atom feed for the main entries and have permanently redirected it to the RSS 2.0 feed.

If you like my design please head over to CSS Reboot and also May 1st Reboot (my site is on page 15) and give me a good rating. :)

Here’s a screenie of XHTMLed v1 in case you’re new to the site and would like to see what it previously looked like:

XHTMLed v1

Posted in Web Design • Comments (3)

Comments

1. Posted by Phil Thompson on May 01, 2005 • 12:47 PM EST (760 days ago)
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your design looks really sweet. I’ve never been here before so I can’t pass comment on the old design but, it’s nice to see someone using XHTML/CSS and not creating a boring boxy style site. kudos.

2. Posted by aliotsy on May 01, 2005 • 11:48 PM EST (759 days ago)
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Wow…I really like this design. Your consistency for the retro 50’s theme really shows the thought that went into it. Just gave you 5 stars on the CSS Reboot. :)

3. Posted by Andrew Kaufmann on May 10, 2005 • 10:15 PM EST (750 days ago)
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Dude, the site looks sweet. I love it. Great use of fonts. Well done buddy!