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March 26th, 2009 11 Comments

Is the sound of me giving up on CSS across 10 million platforms. I swear, tables were so much easier. Back to the old design.

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11 Responses to “That Sound”

  1. Duros62 says:
    March 26, 2009 at 12:09 pm

    What are you using to design it? Are these all Word Press templates, or are you constructing it off line?

    As they say on Sadly, No!, FYWP!

  2. Tyler Cordaro says:
    March 26, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    No way tables looked so clunky and old. I use drupal for my blog and they use blocks to sort out content. you should check drupal out.

  3. Sean D. Martin says:
    March 26, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    New Frontier- style banner picture has white background. Can’t see your name.

  4. Jay says:
    March 26, 2009 at 12:26 pm

    Did your blog use drupal at one time O?

  5. Oliver Willis says:
    March 26, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    Yeah I used to use Drupal. It was a nightmare. Completely user unfriendly. I understand the utility of CSS, but it just presents way too much variables – in my mind – for someone flying solo like me to deal with at this point.

    My idea was to code up something simple and clean myself and it looked fine on multiple browsers and platforms, but clearly it was borked.

  6. aginghippie says:
    March 26, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    I like this design in terms of articles, content, readability, and navigation. Especially when compared to the newer ones you’ve tried.

    I like sites I can read.

  7. Jason says:
    March 26, 2009 at 12:36 pm

    Well css has no real replacement for tables so that’s no surprise.

    http://giveupandusetables.com/ :D

  8. Adam says:
    March 26, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Stop listening to any of the quitters here. Don’t give up. Load your template on a test page and I’ll tell you how to fix it.

  9. jojo says:
    March 26, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    CSS is very powerful, Oliver, but there is definitely a learning curve. Could you take a class in it? It’s valuable to know.

    As people move away from IE6 (and IE7, eventually), there will be fewer hacks necessary.

  10. Michael Over Here says:
    March 26, 2009 at 3:20 pm

    Yay! I like this design a lot. Readability is the main metric for a blog and this one has it.

  11. Mungen_Cakes says:
    March 27, 2009 at 12:18 am

    I like this design best.