Category: Information design

  • Supporting Netscape 4.7 and Other Legacy Browsers

    Just when I was ready to stop tinkering with the design of this site and focus once again on the writing, I was tipped off by an editor friend yesterday that at least one publishing house I’ve worked with (and hope to work with again) is still standardized on Netscape 4.7, the bane of all…

  • Still Working on Pure CSS Design Templates

    I took the generic 3-panel CSS file I derived from a modified version of this site’s new design and set to work converting it to a Blogger template, which is mostly a matter of replacing Radio macros and tags with Blogger-specific tags. A version of that Blogger template is now being used at mediajunkie: junk…

  • CSS Makes Things Easier

    The proof is in the pudding. This (scaled-down, I’m afraid) snapshot of my terminal window shows the Radio Free Blogistan home page in lynx. Coooool: The navigation comes after all the entries, and it even reads fairly well, aside from things like my RSS-feed blogroll, which repeats the final names for the tinyCoffeemug-type images. Worse,…

  • Sample CSS Template for Radio

    I’ve cleaned up the template I’m using here and made it a little more generic (put a real banner box across the top and top-aligned the blog and masthead boxes. The idea is to provide other Radio users with an all CSS floating design template. By editing the CSS (I did most of it in…

  • A CSS Method for Category Filtering?

    Would it be possible to put check boxes next to my navigator links and have them drive CSS logic to hide entries that are only associated with unchecked categories? Would this be something like the Jakob/Zeldman buttons for switching from serif to sans-serif? I think I may need to ask a CSS guru, such as…