Rodent Regatta

I saw a link to this site somewhere today. I added the RSS feed to my news reader. However, I’ve now forgotten which site I was reading. They deserve a link. This is a great CSS tutorial.

Chris Lott at Ruminate posts something he calls Linklogs. This week he points to something called Checkershadow Illusion. It further links you to some other illusions. For a rookie designer this is clever and educational stuff!

Cameron Moll, a Textpattern user, is listed on Eric Meyer’s list of Luminous Beings. The request was for CSS-savvy folk who might tackle a book-writing assignment that Eric had to pass on. Don’t miss the comments with Cameron’s entry.

Why do I visit Cameron’s site? I’m considering the move of a 4000 to 5000 entry Movable Type site over to Textpattern with an update of the design. Cameron’s site shows the kinds of things I’d love to build in.

Chapter Six of Designing the Band wraps up the project and provides some information about total hours and costs for designing such a site.

I don’t like the time it takes for my site to ”rebuild” after an entry. However, that’s not the worst thing I’ve ever said about Movable Type. The worst thing I ever said about Movable Type and the company behind it, Six Apart, is that they had become too quiet. That, more than any other factor, led to the noise level about their release of MT 3.0.

All of that – except the rebuild times – seems to be changing. Mena Trott has posted several entries today that sheds a much greater light on what the company has been doing and how much depth the company is building. They are getting what appears to be excellent advice about early stage funding and organizational structure. I wish other software companies would take notice of the approach.

Now, about those rebuild times…