"and if you want to make yourself stand out somewhat, go look at CSS Zen Garden for something a bit fancy"
I went there, and bailed after 10 seconds. The "light gray on white" text is a major blunder. If you have to paste the text into a text editor in order to read it, the web page has failed. It is like trying to read a newspaper where someone went over it for a while with Silly Putty and/or an eraser and took away much of the ink. The graphics reek too: the menu on the right in which the headers are pretty much blotted out.
If by antiquated, you mean "has legible text", so be it! It is antiquated in a good way, like Google is. "Modern" trends like lavender letters on maroon backgrounds leave something to be desired.
Seriously, the Slashdot visual design ranks among the best, except for that category that immitates the "Aqua" look of white letters on a very pale background (cannot be read). If you want very bad, go to aintitcoolnews.com To read that site, you need to copy and paste text into a text editor.
Are these region-free DVD's common? Let me know. I spent some time looking in stores, and gave up. If they have to be mail ordered from some obscure place, add the $10 shipping to the cost.
Looks like Jerry Bruckheimer is at it again. Blowing up things real good for his new movie. Already, Bruce Willis has been sighted in his really hideous corduroy spacesuit.
"Mostly because Begala is easier on the eyes than Carville."
I know. Unlike Carville, Begala has not done such stunts as fire deathbeams from his wand into the audience screaming "Due, muggle scum!", reveal that his face was on the back of the head of a stuttering professor, and drinking unicorn's blood on live TV.
The winner should be the game leader-movie that is so compelling that you don't find yourself hitting keyboard or controller buttons within seconds to move past it to the actual game. A rare beast.
Good point. Basic design skills are lost even on designers of major pages. Visit Slashdot.org, Drudgereport.com, Google.com and copy what they do. Visit Foxnews.com, cnn.com,aintitcoolnews.com, newsmax.com and learn how not to do things.
"...The problem is I have no clue where to begin. HTML, CSS, JavaScript are an obvious start..."
How about learning the "skill" of not using Javascript at all? If everyone had this skill, it would make make the Web a more pleasant place. Nest up, the elite "skill" of not polluting pages with Flashdross.
This would not have been so bad if Dmitri didn't start thinking that the ISS was getting stuffy, and he opened both doors in the airlock to get some fresh air in there.
It sure is a kludge if you have to burn it to a CD and then rip it to get a usable standard music file. Is there some sort of utility that fakes things with a "virtual CD" so you don't have to be reefing on a CD-RW for this?
The show became a parade of human cartoons. Novak the duckman. Lord Voldecarville. Pat "Third Reich from the Sun" Buchanan. Let's leave this kind of thing to Warner Bros Daffy vs Bugs cartoons.
He told me that he had to pick barnacles and dried seaweed out of it before he first turned it on. I think that gives a clue about what it was doing after it was a doorstop but before he got it.
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I went there, and bailed after 10 seconds. The "light gray on white" text is a major blunder. If you have to paste the text into a text editor in order to read it, the web page has failed. It is like trying to read a newspaper where someone went over it for a while with Silly Putty and/or an eraser and took away much of the ink. The graphics reek too: the menu on the right in which the headers are pretty much blotted out.
If by antiquated, you mean "has legible text", so be it! It is antiquated in a good way, like Google is. "Modern" trends like lavender letters on maroon backgrounds leave something to be desired.
You troll you!
Seriously, the Slashdot visual design ranks among the best, except for that category that immitates the "Aqua" look of white letters on a very pale background (cannot be read). If you want very bad, go to aintitcoolnews.com To read that site, you need to copy and paste text into a text editor.
Where's my Atari 1450 XLD? Still waiting....
Are these region-free DVD's common? Let me know. I spent some time looking in stores, and gave up. If they have to be mail ordered from some obscure place, add the $10 shipping to the cost.
I'm not sure I'd call such a mutation a "defect".
Good point on the DVD. The DVD capability also made the Xbox and PS2 have a little more value in that they could be used to play movies.
Are you sure that was what it said? I got one this morning trying to sell me Lev1tra and V1-AG-RA, entitled "largest erection in the galaxy"
As heard on the news:
Fox News: "Surgical strikes by our forces eliminated an Alderaan terrorist base today"
CNN: "Bush's environmental policies are believed to be to blame for today's planet explosion."
MTV News: "Christine Aguilera had to cancel her Alderaan concert tour today."
Rush Limbaugh: "That's a few billion fewer Anderaanian feminazis to worry about."
Boh and Tom: "ha ha ha. Heh heh heh. guffaw"
Looks like Jerry Bruckheimer is at it again. Blowing up things real good for his new movie. Already, Bruce Willis has been sighted in his really hideous corduroy spacesuit.
(Death Star reference requirement satisfied, in an oblique way)
Whatever happened to getting these things on friggin shark foreheads? Priorities, people!
I know. Unlike Carville, Begala has not done such stunts as fire deathbeams from his wand into the audience screaming "Due, muggle scum!", reveal that his face was on the back of the head of a stuttering professor, and drinking unicorn's blood on live TV.
The winner should be the game leader-movie that is so compelling that you don't find yourself hitting keyboard or controller buttons within seconds to move past it to the actual game. A rare beast.
Good point. Basic design skills are lost even on designers of major pages. Visit Slashdot.org, Drudgereport.com, Google.com and copy what they do. Visit Foxnews.com, cnn.com,aintitcoolnews.com, newsmax.com and learn how not to do things.
How about learning the "skill" of not using Javascript at all? If everyone had this skill, it would make make the Web a more pleasant place. Nest up, the elite "skill" of not polluting pages with Flashdross.
This would not have been so bad if Dmitri didn't start thinking that the ISS was getting stuffy, and he opened both doors in the airlock to get some fresh air in there.
Was go to guess that was the meanin', but was right. :)
I tried about four times, and could not parse that sentence.
It sure is a kludge if you have to burn it to a CD and then rip it to get a usable standard music file. Is there some sort of utility that fakes things with a "virtual CD" so you don't have to be reefing on a CD-RW for this?
What? a BSD news item with only 1 out of 31 messages modded down? What is the world coming to?
The show became a parade of human cartoons. Novak the duckman. Lord Voldecarville. Pat "Third Reich from the Sun" Buchanan. Let's leave this kind of thing to Warner Bros Daffy vs Bugs cartoons.
There was a reality show of it right afterwards. It was called Biodome. I think Pauly Shore won....
Spamford: "You can take my spam relay when you pry it out of my cold, dead fingers!"
Alien Cockroach: "Your proposal is acceptible"
He told me that he had to pick barnacles and dried seaweed out of it before he first turned it on. I think that gives a clue about what it was doing after it was a doorstop but before he got it.