For the past several months, I've been working intermittently, between projects, on making this site's design completely CSS-based, and doing away with tables completely. All the sites I've been building for clients have been CSS-based, and all the while mine has remained woefully filled with tables, and I've begun to feel jealous of this fact. Until now. Friday I started using a new style sheet and display template. I still use a few tables on the photo gallery pages, but for the rest of the site (the blogs, etc.) it's all CSS. A few pages are still displaying kind of oddly and I'm trying to resolve those issues as I come across them. IE, for instance, still has a few quirks (of course). But since this is my personal site and not a client's, I'm going to ignore them for now. I'm sure I'll fix them eventually.

For those of you who are saying Table what? CSS who?, I'll just put it this way: I've done a little modernizing here at nicolasix. Upgraded the plumbing. Switched out the electrical outlets. Installed new wiring. It looks the same, but it's actually quite different and works much better than it did just a couple of days ago.

So, now that changing the design is a simple matter of switching out a style sheet, my plan is to put up a new look and feel every so often. Eventually, there may be several designs available which people will be able to choose from. But given my current workload, and my tendency to be a perfectionist about things like this, I'm betting this won't begin to happen until late Summer or Fall.

Oh. I almost forgot: I've also changed this site's URL structure. Instead of the long, unpleasant URL's I had before, I now have much shorter, easily digestible URLs that look something like this: www.nicolasix.com/257/. A minor thing, yes, but one that gives me great pleasure as it will lead to better security and better search engine indexing.

Now, back to other coding projects . . .

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