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Dispatches from 2001
Posted in December
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Have a good New Year’s
What with the holidays, the New Year festivities, and a trip to Ottawa to visit family and friends, LCKY will be quiet until at least January 7, 2002. -
The year that was
A year-end review, without the predictions, of the Internet in 2001 -
December 27, 2001
Just in time for “One page, many designs”, saila.com now has a number of different designs for Netscape 6, Mozilla, and other Gecko-based browsers to try -
December 21, 2001
Fixed some problems with the Links box on the homepage, as well as the Mini Web Reference -
AdCritic.com, DrKoop.com gone as independent content comes back
This week we bid adieu to: -
CBC.ca redesigns
Yikes. You know things are bad when DoubleClick shuts down its Canadian ad sales arm. -
December 18, 2001
Opera (versions 5 and 6) is once again displaying the table-free, CSS-based layout. Unfortunately, because of Opera’s poor DOM support, the dynamic functionality is not available in that browser -
Simple CSS drop shadows
There are a number of ways to create Web-based drop shadows; this article offers a way to do it that works in most browsers, while degrading in the rest — and graphics are not needed. -
Three-column layout tutorial coming
Been getting a few emails asking about how I do saila.com’s three-column, fluid layout with only CSS. -
The WaSP rests
They done good work. -
Newspaper subscriptions
Following on the heels of a study saying Canadian news sites lost ground to CNN post-September 11, The Globe and Mail reports the Winnipeg Free Press is moving to a pay model. -
December 13, 2001
Added a new guideline to the Steadfast Suggestions for Web Design and cleaned it up slightly -
First Usenet post, first Web visit
After following Joe Crawford’s (of ArtLung) first Usenet posting, I decided to see if I could dig up mine. Could never find it in Deja, but Google Groups has dug it up: “Re: What do Coffee Drinkers Want out of life?”, from November 2, 1994. -
The sincerest form of flattery
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Simcoe.com must really like the globeandmail.com. According to a senior producer at globeandmail.com, that site launched its design in June—a time when, according to the Internet Archive, Simcoe.com still liked bevelled graphics. -
Dot-com mania hangover
This dot-com mania hangover truly is brutal. -
Dynamic style sheets
A discussion on evolt.org’s thelist on using ASP to create a “customizable” style sheet using variables lead me to this article, “Creating Dynamic Style Sheets Using ASP”. Am in the process now of playing around with the concepts therein to see if I can find a solution to my ongoing style sheet battles with Netscape 4.x -
CANOE Money: R.I.P.
CANOE decides to replace its established business brand, the result? A truly Canadian effort. -
December 1, 2001
Made a variety of minor tweaks to help prevent Mozilla 0.9.6 from crashing all the time. Along with those tweaks are a few minor stylistic improvements that, in a dose of irony, work best in Mozilla
