The All New and Fast Weblog
January 14, 2003 03:07 AM
Presenting the all new nilesh.org/weblog. Or so... nothing much visible on the body. You need to do look under the bonnet. I have done a complete recoding of the weblog not only to lighten it up but also to add new features. Here are the new things on Nilesh's Weblog -
- No Tables - pure XHTML 1.0 and CSS based layout. Finally I managed to eliminate tables after many attempts. The purpose is to seperate design from content.
No GIFs - Again after several attempts to remove gifs and spacers from my site design, I have finally moved all my images to the more superior PNGs and JPEGs. Well, it's a matter of a few more changes to remove all remaining traces.
Text Sizing - Now with the help of the buttons on the left side menu, you can increase the font size of the page text. That is if you have felt the need to using glasses to read this weblog. And your preferences get saved too. So you do not have to change font sizes again and again.- Print Styles - If you do a print preview of any page of the weblog, you'll see that the distracting banner and menu disappear and what you get to print is pure content.
- Clean Degradation - Older browsers which used to see jumbled up text will no longer see that way. But then, they won't see any style also. I have hidden the design from 4.x browsers.
Now that I have finished one task of my big list of new-year things-to-do, you probably won't have to wait longer for the next one. No, it's got nothing to do with hum*blog.
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Jeff said...
Oops ... not quit GIF free, q2.GIF is still kicking around ! ;-)
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Nilesh said...
Now it doesn't! :-) *sigh* Its hard to keep up with perfection. Sometimes, you do slip down. ;-)
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Amit [Netahoy] Agarwal said...
getting those spacer gifs is a painer..... when will i get to have the courage!
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codey said...
was wondering wth your last design how you were going to throw away the table on the top and bottom to give the curvy look... if you were going to do away totally with the tables... now there is just a single img.... cheeky very cheeky... good work though... i would love to validate my pages to XHTML someday.. . but on blogger with the ads you can forget it...
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MadMan said...
JPEGs are not inherently "superior" to GIFs. They both serve different purposes. GIFs are best for mostly flat colour images, while JPEGs are best for photographic images (and images with lots of gradients.)
Use whatever works best.
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Nilesh said...
JPEGs are not inherently "superior" to GIFs.
Actually it was meant for the PNGs. They support alpha transparency(as in varying levels of transparencies), interlacing & lossless compression. Animated images can be created using a series of PNGs. These files are called MNGs.
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abhi said...
hi, looks nice. have done a good work in changing the previos table layout look to divs. but i think that u should also go in for standard compliancy. validator
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Babu said...
Very nice. Good HTML.
I did a redesign during Dec 2002. No tables, NO IMAGES . All old browsers get Lynx style layout.
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Nina said...
very nice. is there something wrong with me? i've been trying to add more images to my blog, haha. ;x
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9 comments have been added. Add your comments.
1. Jeff said...
Oops ... not quit GIF free, q2.GIF is still kicking around ! ;-)
2. Nilesh said...
Now it doesn't! :-) *sigh* Its hard to keep up with perfection. Sometimes, you do slip down. ;-)
3. Amit [Netahoy] Agarwal said...
getting those spacer gifs is a painer..... when will i get to have the courage!
4. codey said...
was wondering wth your last design how you were going to throw away the table on the top and bottom to give the curvy look... if you were going to do away totally with the tables... now there is just a single img.... cheeky very cheeky... good work though... i would love to validate my pages to XHTML someday.. . but on blogger with the ads you can forget it...
5. MadMan said...
JPEGs are not inherently "superior" to GIFs. They both serve different purposes. GIFs are best for mostly flat colour images, while JPEGs are best for photographic images (and images with lots of gradients.)
Use whatever works best.
6. Nilesh said...
JPEGs are not inherently "superior" to GIFs.
Actually it was meant for the PNGs. They support alpha transparency(as in varying levels of transparencies), interlacing & lossless compression. Animated images can be created using a series of PNGs. These files are called MNGs.
7. abhi said...
hi, looks nice. have done a good work in changing the previos table layout look to divs. but i think that u should also go in for standard compliancy. validator
8. Babu said...
Very nice. Good HTML.
I did a redesign during Dec 2002. No tables, NO IMAGES . All old browsers get Lynx style layout.
9. Nina said...
very nice. is there something wrong with me? i've been trying to add more images to my blog, haha. ;x
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