Rodent Regatta

In language a non-designer can easily understand, and with an example to demonstrate her point, the Scriptygoddess is planning a makeover. The question is whether or not it can be done exclusively with CSS functionality or whether tables may be required.

I’m very anxious to learn the outcome of this one, because her requirement about resizing the browser window is very reasonable and likely for most readers.

Registered users of FeedDemon 1.0 will find a new beta version waiting for you at the Bradsoft site. Along with bug fixes and new features comes the first support for Atom 0.3 syndication feeds.

I’m still grinding on ”the project,” but I downloaded and installed this one. Nick Bradbury is doing good work. I simply must learn TopStyle.

At some point – in order to complete the next set of tasks that are facing me – I need to be able to go through these tutorials. Otherwise, I’m going to be getting the checkbook out and paying for help.

At 5:00 a.m. this day, getting to anything other than entering part numbers and sub-assemblies seems like a very distant dream. Last night many labor rates and codes were changed. Labor codes are the part of a bill of materials that determine how much each sub-assembly costs from a ”piece-rate” point of view. This is sheer drudgery.

This is the project that might never end.

Andy Budd was apparently called out for having validation buttons on his web site during a brief period when the site didn’t actually validate. This morning I had 824 errors when I ran the Rodent Regatta through the validator.

I type every character of every XHTML tag required to make entries here. I type every character of every ”img src=”http…”” tag that appears here. Still, I have 824 validation errors.

Until there is a tool that conveniently allows and enforces valid entries to be written without diverting my attention from writing to markup coding, I’ll be satisfied with my error count. It’s frustrating, but that’s just the way it is going to be until hitting the ”return” key in this Movable Type text entry box doesn’t force some sort of invalid ”p” tag, which is what I’m told is happening. Who knows? Does it really matter?

There’s a set of nominations for the best weblogs in various categories right here. Though I’ve ”voted” a time or two in years past, I’ve never really thought of the awards as awards, but as sources of new sites for reading and learning.

If you’re just getting into weblogs or you merely read about certain subjects using weblogs as one of your resources, the nominees’ list might point you to something new.