My Pictures

Scattered throughout this page you'll find random images from my FlickR Page. Click on the images to see them larger.

Designing with Cascading Style Sheets

I started with the stylesheets from ScreenFont.ca (Joe Clark's web site). Joe's really into screen fonts (hence his domain name), and used some unusual fonts in his style sheets (Candara, "News Gothic MT", "Bitstream Vera Sans", "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans", Verdana, Trebuchet, "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif), but I didn't want to make my site look TOO much like his, so I went with some standards listed in Jeffrey Zeldman's book Designing With Web Standards" (Helvetica, Georgia, "New Century Schoolbook", Times, serif). I've made significant changes to Joe's "positive.css" style sheet now, and feel I can call them my own. I like the navigation on the left, with a light gray background. I like the links to be underlined only on mouseover, and I prefer Altavista for my search engine. Feel free to compare to the look of his site to see how much I've changed things.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) allow you to separate the content of a site from its design. Changing the CSS can dramatically change the layout of the site without having to deal with the content.

Along with XHTML, CSS enables you to design your web sites using standards that save you time, money, energy, and even enables your page to be more easily navigated by people with disabilities.

I recently redesigned this site to use Transitional XHTML and CSS. It's a start, but I still have a lot of learning to do.

My Pictures

Here are 3 random pics from my FlickR Page

Long Bio

If you really want to know more about me, then read this, otherwise, just skip it, and read the stuff below.

Short Bio

I work for the State of Texas, do some web programming for other companies on the side, and put mock-ups of their sites on this server, so they can view, test, and approve changes to their code prior to updating their real web site. I'm on a cable modem here at home, and the links below are to various sites I've had a hand in After starting to learn CSS, I'm not so proud of that work I did in the past!

Links to sites I've worked on

TexasRuralReport.com was written for a client who wanted a subscription based site where he could post information about legislative bills affecting rural areas. It uses a few tables, but not many, and is mostly CSS. I may go back and make a few more mods to it so it's completely XHTML/CSS compatible, but only if I get the time.
SqueekASP.com - This is where I host my enhanced copy of GenericDB, GenericReport, and SQSecurity. This site is done in old school format, but I hope to update it soon. GenericDB is some pretty slick ASP code that's free, and I've added some features to it, and help answer questions on the mailing list. GenericReport is a session variable driven reporting tool. Written in the fashion of GenericDB, you start off with a report configuration script which creates all of the session variables needed to generate the report. This config then redirects to GenericReport.asp, which does all of the work. SQSecurity is the simplest way to add security to a web page by including only one script.
MarshallClassmates.com - I went to my 26th reunion and decided to make a web database for my classmates. Once again, this site is done in old school format, but I hope to update it soon.
Texas Auto Title & Registration Consultants One of my clients. I did all of the ASP, HTML, and database design for this site about five years ago.
Stylish GDB (a work in progress) - GenericDB needs to support CSS. I started working on this two years ago, but will now go back and start all over.

My Pictures

Designing with Cascading Style Sheets

My Pictures

Long Bio

Short Bio

Links to sites I've worked on

A few helpful XHTML and CSS sites