Jul 06
Keeping up with Technology
Often when I get involved in some new piece of technology, I am doing it not just for some specific reason, but also to learn about the technology. I don’t want to be left behind.
For example, setting up this website, I had to learn about hosting, setting up a blog (I already have several but Wordpress is more… configurable), and, it turns out style sheets.
The style sheet aspect was interesting: I wanted to use a “glow seed” photo I took as a header on each page to give the site a consistent look and feel (read – to look cool) and so I started digging in some online HTML documentation to find out what the right IMG tag was. It is probably 10 years since I did any serious HTML editing. I found the description of the IMG tag in the documentation and noticed “this feature is deprecated – use style sheets”. Wonderful – I have to learn about style sheets.
Luckily, my MacHeist bundle had, amongst its goodies, CSSEdit. This made it very easy to get started and roll a very simple first style sheet.