Object Oriented CSS
So I caught this thanks to net.tutsplus.com – basically I’ve spent half an hour watching a wonderful lecture about minimizing page load with CSS. Its something I’m seriously considering adopting, I’ve courted the idea of reducing my CSS more often than not – this I think makes more than enough sense. I often catch myself defining things more than once for items, which can be extracted to reduce repetition – which is where my love of databases shines a little; but thats beside the point.
You can watch the video by clicking “Read More”. There’s just one thing which is still perplexing me, gzip – I know I can do something similar with PHP but I’m yet to get it to work properly on Apache, either on my development server or on my hosting.
0 Comments »Site Restructure
I have done a little bit of restructuring, I wasn’t particularly happy with having a blog which seemed to centre strongly around gaming – so now its more general than just gaming by definition, it’ll still have a lot of gaming content in it though. Please update your feeds and bookmarks!
http://www.towerdesigns.co.uk/gaming/ is now http://www.towerdesigns.co.uk/blog/ apologies for the issues it’ll cause with RSS feeds.
0 Comments »New Theme
This has been a while coming – and its somewhat long overdue. I wasn’t pleased with the fluid-width pages – the style didn’t seem to gel well at all and it was something I really wanted to alter. So here is the new and improved theme, I’m thinking of doing some heavy configuring with it and making it distribution ready for the public-at-large.
New visitors shouldn’t have to do anything, but anyone who has visited in the past may wish to press Ctrl + F5 to refresh their browser cache. Chances are this theme is far from perfect, but it should be functional on all types of browsers to some extent. I haven’t fully tested IE6 yet – and I am dreading that moment! I have learnt a fair few new tricks with this skin, and it will get more fleshed out – I have some ideas on improvements.
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