My friend Frits, sent me another lovely poem which can be viewed here.

I will be creating some new XHTML templates over the next few days.

Stay tuned.

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Just when I thought I was done with tweaking this site…

I’ve just installed some cool WordPress plugins and was able to do some tweaking to the plugins I already had.

• Fixed ContactForm so that the CSS it wrote to the WordPress pages is now in my main template CSS file. No more messy code!
• Installed QuickTags for comments. Now we can click a button to insert html into the comments
• Installed Static Home Page plugin which I will activate once I write the content for an intro page

That’s it for now. It’s a holiday weekend here in Canada so I think I will try to get in some R&R! Right! If I can tear myself away from this computer, that is.

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There are defintiely pros and cons for either. I tend to design both styles depending on the needs of my client.

Fixed-width designs tend to give the designer a little more control of the layout. The trouble is some designers are creating fixed widths for 1024 x 768 resolution, completely forgetting that a good percentage of people, like myself, have their monitors set to 800 x 600. I have it set that way because frankly, it’s easier on my eyes.
I wear specially tinted and magified glasses for the computer as it is. I don’t need more eyestrain! So when a designer creates a fixed width design, it should still accomodate those users with 800 x 600 resolution.

Fluid designs are great because they are more accessible to users with various other devices. The design stretches across the screen in higher resolutions and with just a couple of CSS tweaks, you can make the content stop stretching beyond a certain width.

I can’t wait until all browsers conform to the current web standards. Then CSS tags like max-width might actually work the way they’re supposed to. And then maybe more designers would create fluid designs more often.

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