I’m hoping people (especially with dialup connections) are noticing a dramatic improvement in the speed at which this page loads. David Gagne did me the tremendous favor of rewriting the template for FmH using CSS- instead of table-based positioning, something that the slow-loading page has been crying out to me about for a long time. I learned to format text with styles a few months ago, and also eliminated some of the deeply-nested tables in my dinosaur layout, but CSS-based layout has not been something I’ve had the time to take on.
David did try to sneak some extra color into the design but, as you can see, I’ve resisted [grin] and restored the familiar grey and white… Seriously, though, I’m deeply indebted to his skill and generosity (which is hardly obscured by his claim that his motives are selfish, given his slow dial-up connection…) and proud the page gets to wear the CSS and HTML validation medals (although, David warns, even though the template may be standards-compliant, some of my posts may not be…). Tweaking the last problem out of the new setup (the sidebar loads beneath the content rather than alongside) now but impatient, a boy with his new toy, to use the new template and post this public thank-you to David right away this evening. He’s been a longtime reader of FmH (I recall him as an early supporter of the ‘blink’ nomenclature) and I’m a sometime reader of his blog, a pleasing combination of beautiful design and tasty content; I’ll frequent it more often from here on out. Consider checking it out…
