And the wheel keeps turning...Well I'm back from the black hole of web hosting. This site has been down because the hosting company that I was using has disappeared off the face of the earth. It would have been nice to have gotten some notice of its demise but it just went dark. Obviously the business model of giving hosting for life for a single fee didn't work out. I have found a better hosting company here that I use for "real" sites, but I'm not using it for this site for several reasons. First, this isn't a business and I didn't feel the need for guaranteed uptime of 24/7. Second, it is easier to play on a local box. Third, my current solution is free (except for ISP charges...). What's all this then... So what am I trying to do this time? For those that are keeping track (all 2 of you) I was playing with different JavaScript code to make the site work. This time I'm playing with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Yes that's right, this site currently does not have any JavaScript code on it. Most of the ideas come from Eric Meyer's site The Edge. I've found it to be a very informative site on CSS techniques. There aren't any tables on this page either - again it's all done with CSS and <div>'s.
There are two images (PNG's) on the page, the top banner and the left background. The only reason the left is a graphic was because I wanted the color fade to match the banner at the top. Compatibility?You may be wondering just how compatible this site is with different browsers? Well I'm not doing anything that the most recent browsers can't handle so it should work with IE5.5 and up and Mozilla 1.x. I had to limit some of my ideas because IE does not render CSS exactly as it should.