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Ending the Madness: Deja Triple Vu

I gave up on the nice new XHTML-strict templates that Blogger has been providing as an easy way to look nice and be sharp.  I couldn't stand the way the sidebar and the body column fought for the available width and squeezed one or the other to the bottom of a very long page.  There may be a way around that, but I knew it would work if I committed the small sacrilege of reverting to HTML 4.01 with a modest use of tables.  This is strictly a case of what works now, and I remind the markup bigots that depricated is not the same as forbidden; practice will determine when anything I'm using here truly disappears from browser support.

Also, I hate rigid pages, and the new template had the page controlled down to the pixel.  Since many of the pretty-pretties were accomplished by wedging rounded-corner images over there, and tucking a box under here, I couldn't see myself figuring out how to get around the massive nesting of styles to make it do what I wanted.  Although Douglas Bowman's Rounders are very appealing.  I learned that wasn't simple enough for all I want to do.

The simplified look inaugurated with this post is borrowed from the old-standby Orcmid's Lair and Numbering Peano layouts.  I can dress it up more later.  For now, I have the content laid out the way I want with images and screen shots inserted the way I want them.  My one regret is that the user can't control body flow and line width by adjusting the browser when there are wide images on the page.  That I am willing to figure out.  I'll even take advice on how to accomplish that.

Making this change also means that we'll be seeing double some more.  It was already that way, just not so noticeable amid the glitz.

posted by orcmid at 9/1/2004 10:34:26 PM, rating data by NewsGator Online