December 13, 2002

Eureka!

The site has gone from a custom PHP blog­ging system I was writ­ing to Move­able Type.

It’s sur­vived a server change to Dreamhost, and an upgrade of Move­able Type.

Now, I’ve finally gotten my CSS design to work.

I wanted a liquid design that would shrink well, yet would also fea­ture those neato inter­sect­ing lines you see.

I tried absolute posi­tion­ing, rel­a­tive posi­tion­ing, and just about every com­bi­na­tion of them you could imagine.

I was get­ting tired of trying to make it work at just about any res­o­lu­tion and was going to give it one more try before I gave up and fixed it at some­thing pre­sentable at 640×480.

But then I looked around on the Web some more and found Blue Robot. His layout reser­voir had the per­fect code to use as the foun­da­tion for my design (two column, right menu in case you couldn’t tell).

I just set up per­cent­age mar­gins on the left, right, and bottom on the BODY tag and I com­pro­mised a little and fixed the size of the words “heisel.org” at the top so that I could absolutely posi­tion the sidebar.

So now it works (at least in IE5 Mac, IE5 and 6 PC, and Mozilla Mac and PC).

Now it’s time to get my resume up…

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