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11/11/2002 Archived Entry: "Site upgrade"

Today I finally got off my butt and did a long-overdue update of the site's visual design. It's a work in progress, so there may be some oddities... Read on:

The site now uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1), which shows just how much neglect I put into the site's design. :) It's still evolving a little, but with CSS implemented and a new templating system, I should be able to make tweaks pretty easily.

The new design looks best if you have the Garamond BookCondensed font installed. I'm working on making web-based embedded fonts available on the site in the near future, so you won't need to have the font installed. Unfortunately, that'll only work in Microsoft Internet Explorer, because Netscape's embedded-font technology requires a costly embedding program.

I've noticed that the new design seems to cause indigestion for Internet Explorer 5.2.2 for Mac OS X. Sometimes it will render the "Contents" on the left of the screen, then leave a lot of space before the body. This seems to go away if the page is reloaded. The problem doesn't occur under Chimera (the Mozilla port for Mac OS X) or on Windows. Gee, go figure: Microsoft isn't writing good Mac software. I'll see if I can figure out what causes that... but not tonight.

The visual design of the weblog pages is still embryonic. It'll get there over the next week or so, I imagine.

Posted by Lee @ 03/09/2004 11:53 PM ET

Hi, i really need your help. Do you have the Garamond BookCondensed Font for windows? I've been looking it for a long time. Hope you can send me the font type. I will appreciate it very much.

Thank you.

Posted by Rob @ 05/27/2005 10:50 PM ET

Sorry, Lee, but Garamond is a copyrighted font. If you're seeing it on this page, either you already have it installed, or you're seeing a specially processed version from Microsoft's WEFT font tool, which DRM-encodes the font so it's useless unless being used to view this web page. You can probably find the font on any number of inexpensive font-collection CD-ROMs, such as are found at office-supply stores.

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