first blog of the new year - as if anyone cares.

two weeks in sunny spain has left me revitalised, hence:

the brand new community forum pages powered by phpBB - this will make it much easier to solve any problems with posts to the Guestbook or any discussion forum.

at the moment there are about 12 registered users - not many, nor many posts, but chorlton.web has never gone heavy on audience participation!

that is - i'd love it but it doesn't seem to happen much!!

last night i uploaded a new version of the home page - it's clean, uses pure CSS formatting, and is accesible to text browsers etc

as a sometime web designer, with a keen and growing interest in what they call 'web standards', i've been a bit abashed about the chorlton.web site for ages.

• most of it:
  
• looks messy
  
• has get several clashing styles
  
• is out of date
  
• some of the directory info is out of date
  
• it ignores some of chorlton's big plus points
  
• it wastes time on bits i can't imagine anyone looks at
  

o i could go on for ages.

what is worse, from my and an accessibility point of view, is that it uses old-fashioned coding and html, making it obsolete and inaccessible to many people, browsers.

so i'm going to use this blog as some sort of change log:

change log #1

new home page

new page puts navigation in the top right using a simple float.
links in the navbar get a blue background when hovered over. these links should really be coded as an unordered link coz that's what they are. css will then make sure that the list is not formatted as a default list (bullets & indentations 'n that)

the main content area has got the old logo bottom right - it looks much too garish and big. i need to photoshop it to make it half-transparent and reduce the size. i'm not sure it should just live in the background.
maybe we need a new logo as well, i'm just still fond of the old one

i've also just hacked the way the font sizes are controlled - css has got problems with font sizes and accesibility. the best way will be to fix the sizes, i think, and provide a 'make fonts bigger' widget.

i'd also like a 'change style' widget. all in the fullness of time

the main think is probably to save the new style as a simple template and apply it quickly to other pages.

watch them spaces