Updating the Resources section

Posted on June 16, 2002 @ 21:02 in General

I've been working hard on the Resources section of the site. Just thought I'd mention that in case you missed it. The MovableType blog tool proves to be very versatile. I mentioned before that with MT you can use categories to sort your entries and I've been busy putting all the references I've amassed in plain hardcoded html into that system. I'm not done, but it's real easy now to add or edit something, save the changes and the webpages are updated automagically.

A note on the redesign. I'm proud to say that the design appears to work in all major browsers (IE 5 & 6, Netscape 6, Mozilla, Opera 6) and last time I checked, mostly worked cross-platform on Windows PC's and Macs. The site uses CSS extensively so that for the most part content and form are separated. Older browsers like Netscape 4 will still display the content, but without the layout and users are informed that their browser is a bit out of date. The site also works pretty well in a text-only browser, such as Lynx, so that access for people with a visual impairment is possible.

I would not have been able to work this up without the help of Owen Briggs, who maintains several indispensible CSS tutorials here and here, and who was kind enough to answer a couple of e-mails. Glish.com's tutorial helped a lot too, as did A List Apart's archive.

Anyway, now I've got to go and clean up some of the old html pages, because you can still end up there following some of the links and they look so crappy.

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  1. I LOVE the Resources section. I am working on a project on women's online fan culture, and I am sending many waves of gratitude at you for putting this online. I think you deserve an online fan culture devoted to you for this.

    Posted by Emily on June 29, 2002 @ 07:47

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