December 3, 2004
Redesigning A Website Using Only CSS
After setting up the new ‘Autumn Eve’ alternate style sheet, I thought that some people might be interested in the reasoning behind it, some of the problems, and how I overcame them.
The idea was to give the site a completely different look to the default style sheet layout, and most importantly, to do so without touching the underlying XHTML. Of course, as has been mentioned elsewhere by Dunstan Orchard with his superb redesign of the Mozilla Europe site, this is not always as straightforward as it might seem…
October 18, 2004
Removing The Red Tape
Red tape, eh?! The bane of all our lives. It’s the bane of Peter’s life too. Take a look at a typical example of a day in the life of a reasonably average citizen of the UK…
January 14, 2004
Upgrading to Movable Type 2.65
One of the last things that I did before throwing the new site design out into the open was to upgrade Movable Type version 2.64 to 2.65. The changes made to 2.64 are listed in the Guide to new features in MT 2.6, but the main reason for doing this was security issues. Anyway, here’s the steps that I took to carry out the upgrade, along with a few notes on what’s actually changed.
