19 November, 2003

Today has been a day of achievement. I completed a new interface for this site replacing the second interface which has annoyed me since its inception. It was done because I needed a second interface to experiment with switching…it was designed in about 5 minutes and was ugly. The new style took 5 hours to design and is not ugly…but I may be biased.

It got a bit tricky trying to figure out how to use the XSL files that drive the site to have a different heading image as a background image on the H1’s. The solution was interesting in that it works and is about as ugly as the interface I was replacing.

Second achievement: I have managed to negotiate the perils of couriers and have received the Extended version of The Two Towers on DVD. It could be a late night if I can’t wait until the weekend.

The following was on Zeldman.com today and, for some reason, I found it incredibly funny. I still can’t see why it’s funny but I’m still giggling so…

”Remove design from an inaccessible form, and what have you got? An inaccessible form with no design.”