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Fri
Sep
24

2004

A Few Textpattern Styles

For now, you pretty much have to know CSS to change the look of a Textpattern site, as there are very few pre-fab options out there. So I thought I would offer a few simple copy-and-paste options to change the style and look of the default Textpattern installation: Textpattern Styles.

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Mon
Mar
11

2002

Arrogant CSS Authors

Arrogant CSS Authors – You’ll have to scroll down this table-based page to get to the content: "I do not understand some people’s insistence that web pages should, indeed must, be laid out in Cascading Style Sheets."

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Mon
Feb
18

2002

Hurdles CSS Must Overcome

Hurdles CSS Must Overcome – The debate continues as Dave lists 5 things he thinks are holding back the adoption of CSS. Rebutting this could get long and geeky, so I’ll move it off the front page, for those who just came by for kitty pix.

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Thu
Sep
06

2001

Gulag CSS

Gulag CSS – I’ve witnessed much pain and suffering lately, and I fear some of it may be my fault. I built a web site using Cascading Style Sheets for compliant browsers (ala the Web Standards Project), and while under the influence of marathon code binges, I may have evangelized a bit about the sweet life at Gulag CSS.

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Fri
Aug
24

2001

CSS Evangelism

A List Apart: Practical CSS Layout Tips, Tricks and Techniques – If you’ve been building a largish site based entirely on CSS for compliant browsers, as I have of late, you’d wish you’d seen this article a couple of weeks ago. My surfing habits have been abysmal recently (no willpower), as is amply demonstrated by this weblog’s lack of recent linkage. Otherwise, I might have seen this when it came out … a day after I started building aforementioned site.

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reidstott: Feeling burned out today. Too much Independence, I guess.

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12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards — Including this reality-based advice on CSS hacks: “Given a choice between making excuses to a client about why something looks lousy in their browser or just fixing it, the latter decision settles up a pending invoice with far less pain and delay.