July was a quiet month in Library Monk blog land, but a busy one in real life. I’m officially out of MU’s SISLT Ph.D program and our house is for sale. I’ve accepted a job at Hodges Library, IT Technologist III in Library Outreach. We move in to a leased townhouse on the 25th and … Read more
I’ve applied for a job in Knoxville. No, I’m not going to tell you what it is, you think I want everybody applying for it? 🙂 It does tie in my web design skills and library background nicely and I hope I get the job. I’ve tried the PhD thing twice now, once at UT … Read more
I just installed IE 7 Beta 2. Very minimalist approach, almost too minimal. You can add toolbars to the interface, but adding things in destroys the look Microsoft is going for. IE 7 also appears to introduce more CSS bugs instead of fixing them. Or maybe I have a hack in my left side navigation … Read more
Visually I like the new look, but the CSS behind the site is pretty complex, I’m sure it’s more complex than it needs to be. There are lots of fixes in there for browser bugs/CSS glitches. http://www.librarymonk.com/wp-content/themes/monastery/style.css Most of these fixes are for browsers that very few people still use. I’d rather the content be … Read more
I know someone who insists on using Netscape 4.7 on Mac OS 9.2. Not only that, they insist on telling other people how good Netscape 4.7 is and telling people they should design their sites for Netscape 4.7. For those of you doing the math, the Netscape 4.x line started in June 1997. The last … Read more
The Acid 2 Test is a holy grail of web standards support that designers wish browser maker would strive for. Basically if your browser can display this page as a smiley face, it has good standards support. Internal builds of Safari, Opera, and Konqueror all pass the Acid 2 Test. But the first publicly available … Read more
I came across a nice article at Digital Web Magazine that introduces PHP and tells you how to do simple, useful things. You won’t be able to write a complex script with this info, but it’s good for adding things like menus or copyright statements to every page of your site.
Web Page Design for Designers October 2003 issue has articles on CSS support in current browsers as well as in Dreamweaver MX 2004. The review of Dreamweaver wasn’t glowing but I’ll probably get it at some point since I can get student pricing at the UT Computer Store.
