Old Ex Cathedra

I wonder how many people are hung up on starting their next CSS web page because they have a nice box of tools and lots of good techniques, but don’t have a nice, easy, well-defined process? I know I was. Russ Weakley of Max Design came to the rescue a couple of days ago with his tutorial on making CSS layouts with colored boxes.

Proof of the pudding? Here’s our old main web page, and here’s our new one. I rolled out of bed around 6:30, did the title (which took about an hour), went back to bed until 9:30, got part-way through the site layout, went out to get a haircut and lunch, worked a little more, took another nice nap, scanned the photo, and finished about an hour ago.

I’m big into a spiral development process, and a couple of times when I got really lost I dropped back 10 yards, put back the colors, and kept going. While I ended up with something that’s almost a perfect clone of Russ’s design, I moved everything around at least once.

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