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Just Shelley Weblogging

Nudging Burningbird out of the way

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Another change I’ve made recently is add my full name to both my syndication feeds and to the weblog pages. Perhaps I’ll be more careful with what I write, now that my name is so prominently attached to the pages. Or I’ll feel more ownership of what I write, I […]

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Burningbird

Time to trim

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that I’ve had fun with CSS and stylesheets, it’s time to cut back on their number. A dynamic stylesheet is a very effective approach to styling your site, but not if you also combine this with a dynamic stylesheet selector as I do. The reason is that when each […]

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Burningbird

Setting expectations

My ISP, Hosting Matters made several changes to our accounts on the first without any prior warning. Yeah, darn them. First, they increased the amount of disk space each customer has, which means that now I’m just going to have to go out and find something to fill all that extra space–such as add back the photos I had […]

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Burningbird

Mainlining aggregation feeds

No worries that I’m going to fill up my space with photo shows and old writing from now defunct web sites. It’s okay to have a bit of fun now and again, but neither is particularly toothsome, or amenable to this environment. I did want to say that the title of the last post really […]

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Burningbird Graphics/CSS

Mary Janes and Site Design

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The stylesheets still actually work. Pick one, and reload the page in the Wayback Machine. This page describes both the techniques and the materials I used to create my stylesheets. At the end of the document is links to locations where I’ve borrowed photographs, technology, or graphics – whit my […]