"I'll just" is such a dangerous phrase! All the major projects I'm working on at the moment are in that 'waiting for someone to get back to me' stage, and I was heartily fed-up with the old, clunky, non-accessible library webpages, so I just spent a couple of hours giving them a new CSS layout.
Thank you to Blue Robot's Layout Reservoir for my foundations! (The long term plan is to integrate them more closely with the library catalogue, but who knows how far away that's going to be, and in the mean time, at least they're not still using tables for layout.)
So, why's this dangerous? Because I'm pretty sure I'll go home, look at the pages, and find at least five things I'll need to fix on Monday morning - which is a risk I'm happy to take, really, given that waiting for a time when I can check and re-check and test and test again to make 100% sure it's perfect in every way is almost a guarantee that the update would never get done at all.
(If anyone follows that link and spots something that seems broken or undesirable, please do let me know!)
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I just looked at it under Firefox v 3.0.18 under Ubuntu linux and all seems well. no broken or skewiff page sections at all.
Looking at the source code it seems well thought out and robust, although I'm not sure about a classname of 'Pretty' :)
well done.
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