Prototype 1.5 has finally been released as stable along with a new website. The team have also started a documentation effort to make life easier.

Seems to be that time of year where I go about redesigning the layout of my website. At the moment I’m moving from an aging table-based layout to a new standards compliant, CSS-based design.

For me, using tables is far easier to design websites. However tables soon lead to nested tables and after a while your code becomes bloated and difficult to maintain. There are a wealth of resources out there on the internet to move to a table-less layout. The only problem is I could never quite find what I was looking for. Tables will no doubt appear similar across browsers and platforms, but css-based designs require multiple ‘hacks’ to tame the viscious beast we know as Internet Explorer.

I should continue to support IE on my website, as it currently holds the largest market share. But I’m tired of hacking my code to please or should I say trick IE into correctly displaying my work. On the other hand, standard resources for table-less layouts include Tantek’s infamous box-model hack and A List Apart resources. I also found this S5 presentation very helpful.

The current design on my site now as at June 16th is version two of my Reforce theme. Version one is more suited for CMS systems such as drupal and has been shifted onto my todo list. Reforce v2 uses nice SIFR techniques to maintain accessible code whilst avoiding bulky images I tend to produce. Some AJAX functionality will be added shortly in the form of RSS feeds and web calendars.

Two days after Teevio.net put a counter on his website, which was the same day that he got re-featured on cssBeauty – his unique visitor count broke the 1,000 mark. Teevio.net has a clean-smooth design and was very inspirational towards the design of this site.

Congratulations Stephen!

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I often use the Whirlpool Forums. Recently I created this fan club for an active emerging user, Some Guy.

See the fan club here: robsta.id.au/someguy.

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I recently updated the layout for my blog here at Robsta.Id.Au. Blogger has been very annoying lately – the WYSIWYG editor tends to create some very invalid markup. I suggest Blogger users refrain from using lists (ul and li tags) because line-breaks often break valid markup.
See what the Validator has to say!

Blog before recent layout changes.