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[Jim Cook <james_cook AT mindspring.com>]

Any chance you're going to share the url so we can see you built?  (Even 
if some us only
have Windows.  FWIW, I always use Firefox, so that should help it look 
better...)
-Jim

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> About six months ago a "close relative" decided a website was needed,  
> and it seemed like a good opportunity to get up to date on this new  
> CSS stuff, as the last time I designed a website was in 1999, which  
> was less of a design, and more a collection of HTML tags.
>
> After the project got started, it became apparent that it was both a  
> huge challenge and way above my head. I ended up doing all of the  
> photography, general page design, and copy writing, all of which is  
> beyond my skill level.  Take for example, product shots.  I'm pretty  
> handy with a camera, but have never done product photography, and it  
> months of shooting and re-shooting and photoshop editing before the  
> pictures looked even remotely acceptable.
>
> The page design turned out to be hardest part, as even after reading  
> Steve Champeon's excellent book Cascading Style Sheets, Separating  
> Content from Presentation, I still couldn't put together something  
> remotely acceptable.  Luckily I found:
>
> http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder/
>
> This enabled me to design a template and individual pages in  
> Photoshop, and then generate CSS and HTML pages.  The pages still had  
> to be tweaked by hand, the CSS edited, but at least it was a way to  
> quickly mock-up designs and get the pages largely created.
>
> After the site was created, it was such a let-down to see it on  
> Windows...  I can't believe how poorly pages are rendered, especially  
> the anti-aliasing.
>
> Anyway, after going through all of this I definitely have a much  
> higher appreciation for web professionals, not that I held them in  
> low regard before, but there's nothing like trying your hand at  
> something to gain a new appreciation for those will skills.
>
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