css face lift
OK. Things look a little different over here at Afrojet. You dig? I wanted to create a design that abandoned html and the ubiquitous spacer.gif forever while converting everything to standards compliant css and xhtml. With this new design I have left behind the antiquated Netscape (4.X) and Explorer (4.X) browsers in favor of taking advantage of some of the cool tricks that CSS2 compliant browsers are capable of turning. If you still have one of those browsers and are hard fast in your resolve not to upgrade, fear not, as all of the content is still available to you through those platforms they just wont be graphically formated. That is the beauty of standards compliant xhtml pages. I wanted to beef some of the functionality up a bit too with some dynamic php pages that control what appears on the right as well as giving you the reader the opportunity to pick your own style and type dimensions for how you want this page to look and read. Unfortunately my host is being very slow in installing all the right components on my server and therefore I wasn’t able to implement them at this time. But I plan to just as soon as they get their act together.
Although this page checks out (most of the time) with a xhtml and css validator there are a few known and unknown errors that are being cleaned up by the help. There is a still a minor error that appears on IE 5.5 for Windows (it doesn’t effect the design tho) and the positioning of the daily postings are aligned towards the bottom in IE 6 for Windows. Both of those I will be able to find a workaround to soon. Also of note is that in IE 5.5/6 for Windows the cool little dotted line separators appear as really ugly Frankenstien-like stitch work. Unfortunately, this is a bug of the browser and how it renders css and I can do nothing to right the wrong. These pages looked good (to me) in Mozilla and Netscape for Windows. And they look just damn swell on all the browsers I’ve checked on a Mac. The anti-aliasing with OSX compatible browsers makes me overjoyed.
Anyhoo, slight adjustments will be made over the next couple of days, so if you see anything that looks really out of whack please let me know. Otherwise enjoy.