Rodent Regatta

With even a passing interest in how things get done on the Internet, you should take a look at this list of links.

I think there is a technique for keeping track of where you are on a website called ”breadcrumb navigation.” The technique uses HOME >> PAGE A >> PAGE B >> at the top of the web page to indicate where you are.

Then, there are menus. Some of them actually leave the button highlighted so that you know where you are at any given time.

I’ve got to learn how to apply these CSS techniques. In particular I want to apply the CSS rollover menus.

It’s been a day of study and trial-and-error. Four new domains pointed to new name servers just yesterday are already resolving correctly.

The more I study, the more I become convinced that standards-based web design is likely to become as important an individual skill as word processing. If you can’t produce a simple site that validates and set up a web server for collaboration, you might get left behind. I’m not yet completely confident in any of these areas, but I’m digging hard to learn what I can.

Movable Type, CSS, XHTML and techniques taught by those who are good with these tools are feeding my studies. TopStyle Pro is also on the list of things to learn to be more effective as is NoteTab.

It’s a long day, but it’s beginning to pay off.

In my excitement and haste, I failed to give credit where credit is due this morning. I attributed a list of links to Dan Rubin, when I should have complimented Didier Hilhorst on the work.

Here’s the story. In the upper right-hand corner of the site is the Author Key. Each entry at the site is posted by DH or DR. I simply overlooked it.

Many thanks to Didier, and my original post has been updated!

I’d like to be good at designing templates for Movable Type weblogs. I’m not. I’d like to take a default template and really know how to modify it to change the width of the weblog or the style or the look. I can’t.

When I look at the portfolios of the people I consider really savvy designers, I wonder what’s insulting to them. Are they insulted if someone says, ”I’m planning on using Movable Type as the CMS for a new business. Would you design the templates for me?” Is there some unwritten set of rules governing what these ”best of the best” designers charge that puts them out of reach to all but the Wireds and ESPNs of the world? How many zeroes have to be in their design proposal before it’s worthy of their time?

Have any of them stooped to developing Movable Type templates or is that beneath them?