I Gave Myself a Zeldman-esque Makeover.
Additionally, I redid things with a purer CSS layout. HTML is not valid, I have some url encoding issues that will go away when I add more RESTful urls to my own internal references and a couple other goofs. Although I don't know if I'll get fully compliant because Opera seems pretty insistent about BODY leftmargin and topmargin attributes.
By the by, I downloaded the
two sample chapters from
Zeldman's new book the other day and read them a bit here and there. Without having seen a TOC, from what I read, it should be a great book, I'm planning to purchase.
It's a nice throwback to some of the good-design-coupled-with-practical-advice books from the early days of the web. Add the standards angle, and I'm sold. I like to think I know a good amount about CSS and layout. The CSS sample chapter didn't reinvent the world for me at all, but I learned a couple little things that I didn't know and it was just a good read showing a practical progression. It seemed like it would be really accessible to a broad audience and, most importantly, he's not skimping on making things look decent to use standards--and that's something I think anyone can benefit from.
I'm with Zeldman when he pops off about visual context still having relevance. It does. Just not to everybody, not in every medium all the time. All things in moderation. In any event, if you want to learn to design better looking pages with web standards, I think Zeldman's book might be worth the five minutes to check out.
Piling on: have a gander at the url for the sample chapters above. Okay. That's ridiculous. I appreciate the fact that you're mapping guids from the url in your own isapi filter, but that just seems so brittle, so gratuitous. There's got to be a better way.