This is a bit of a special occasion for me... no, not the new year, but the fact that for the first time in my life I've completed my own personal website.

Now, as Mark long ago (1996, maybe?) pointed out to me, websites are never in fact done. He absolutely hated those ubiquitous little gifs which overpopulated the early web. With good reason, of course. Due to the nature of the medium, web sites are fluid, free from the constraints of printed media. However, my website's layout is to the point that I am satisfied. I like the way it looks. Of course, I'd like to make little icons for each of my "enemies" sites, but they'll have to wait. I'm only inspired to make cartoons of certain people. Some of you just aren't easy to caricature.

Mark has long since moved on to far better things than web design, but I stil enjoy it quite a bit. I've finally completely converted to the CSS paradigm and no longer even touch tables. Us old-schoolers have a little bit of trouble with giving up our tables... something that newer web designers have trouble understanding. Between figuring out how to format without tables and the differences in how Firefox and IE interpret pages, it's a bit of an uphill battle.

Anyhow, i've decided to start posting about things I've learned, in hopes that I can help other web designers who made their way here through the awesome might of Google (who, by the way, report that over 45,400,000 indexed sites contain the phrase "under construction")

Well, back to work on client stuff, I guess.