Year: 2003

UO WoW, blah.

Well, if you haven’t heard already, I’ve been approved for the apartment I was looking at. I just have to get an apointment and go sign the lease. Then hopefully I can move in this weekend or early next week.

Week of Welcome (dis-orientation programs at UO) began today. Got my ID card, registered my bike, got info on lots of stuff, and info about the transfer interest group I want to register for. I get to do the registering tomorrow. Now all thats left is getting a job, and getting through the school year….. ugh.

soooo tired….. zzzzzz good night.

Football with Web Standards

I went to “Good Times” bar again last Sunday to watch the Vikes kill the Lions, bringing the Vikings’ record to 3-0 now! Dante Culpepper (Vikings QB) left the game in the middle because of a bruised back.. I read the following about it in the paper today:

“Do I look hurt?” Culpepper asked as he limped away from Minnesota’s locker room. “I thought I looked cool, like Fred Sanford.”

In unrelated and more self-important news.. I’ve been working really hard the last few days to completely rewrite my site again, this time using structural XHTML, and slightly flashier CSS (albiet with the same layout). The new iteration of my site should be fully accessable to visual browsers, as well as text browsers and screen readers. I don’t expect many blind visitors to my site, but if I become blind tomorrow, I’ll still be able to enjoy my website. Anyways… you can see the results thus far here, and please (someone, anyone) let me know what you think!!

Relating to this last point, and my previous entry.. I bougt yet another book. This time it’s a CSS reference book.. read more to find out about it (and a brief review of the Zeldman’s book).

Continue reading Football with Web Standards

I bought a book.

Yea, you read that right, I spent money on a bound stack of paper. Woo-woo…

Anywho, for you non-non-believers out there (those of you who think I can read) The book is called Designing with Web Standards and it is by a man named Jeffery Zeldman.

I guess what I wanted was a nice reference book of XHTML 1.1 and CSS 1&2 tags and attributes. Reason being I’ve got a few HTML books (based on HTML 2 era code), *and* they’re in Minnesota. Well, this isn’t what I was looking for. It appears to be comprised of methods and theories on how to make websites with standards, and the future of the internet, and internet devices in mind.

I got the book, because the book I was looking for didn’t seem to exist. Also, I’d heard many good things about the book I did get, and it seems like it’d be a good hunk of dead tree-matter that every [self proclaimed] web-designer should read. If you have any suggestions on recent reference books for XHTML 1.1 and CSS 1+2 please leave a comment for me, I’d appreciate it.

Back to reading I guess… Have a nice day.