Lose Your Mind Development

The web site redesign was finished and posted a few days ago. The design is rather stark. But the restructured HTML and CSS will make it very easy to add more flair later.

Now, back to work on Printer’s Apprentice code. — Bryan

Work on Printer’s Apprentice 8.0 has been put on the back burner for just a bit while I rework the web site. There are a couple of reasons for doing this.

1. I want to improve the customer experience. 
2. The HTML and CSS needs to be more standard complient. The existing code does not look so hot when viewed with Firefox and other newer browsers.
3. The site looked good back in 2002. But the cosmetics simply don’t hold up against the bright gradients, polished round-corner, CSS-driven sites of late 2006.  Besides, I’m simply tired of how the site looks.

Revisiting a past project is also a good way to see how much you have learned! The old site has mis-matched tags and poor CSS all over the place. And I hand-coded the thing. So I can’t blame FrontPage for maligning my HTML!

The site currently uses traditional (classic?) ASP. I resisted the urge to redo the site using ASP.NET 2.0 simply because I can’t find any compelling reason to recode the whole thing. So hopefully this effort will not take to long. — Bryan