Rodent Regatta

If you’re slogging through the effort to learn CSS/ XHTML/web design/standards…you know, all that…the treasure chest at the end of the rainbow exists at Paul Scriven’s site.

Me? I’m still arguing with myself about whether there is any chance at all that I can upgrade this site to MT 3.0/3.1 without rendering it invisible for weeks.

Andy Budd wants to know which of these should be used:

• Web Site or Website?
• Site Map or Sitemap?
• Log-in or Login?

He gets plenty of answers.

Here, we’ll be doing it this way:

• web site
• site map
• login
• and, just so you’ll know, email

I’m not guaranteeing I’ve stuck to that until now, but henceforth, let it be writ.[Confirm this at dictionary.com]

Dan Cederholm produces entries at SimpleBits every so often called SimpleQuizzes. The latest one, Part XVII: Addresses, is produced by Dave Shea and asks how a multi-line address should be marked up. As of this writing, I see 122 comments/responses.

Picking from a stylesheet provider’s list of options yields a design that looks fine. The only problem is that you are likely to encounter that design at another site.

Alex King has led the way in producing templates/designs for WordPress users. At this site you can preview the designs much as you would at the CSS Zen Garden. Simply scroll down the sidebar until you see the list of styles. Pick one and the style switcher will render the site accordingly.

I can admire these, but I certainly can’t produce one!

Francey Designs has produced a new design for a site called Second Symphony. All the right pieces are in place: XHTML, CSS, PHP, Movable Type, etc. It’s great looking, too!