New home page

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Stephan Soller" <stephan.soller at helionweb.de> wrote in message 
news:i8k8k9$230n$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 07.10.2010 11:02, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>> Not explicitly as far as I'm aware, but then neither does HTML aside from
>> URLs. And the PDF format does have provisions for files/data of arbitrary
>> types to be embedded into it. So that could be used to embed HTTP URLs, 
>> or
>> any other form of network-oriented links, or any other 
>> application-related
>> information/instructions/data you want. Then you could build 
>> CSS/JS/CGI-like
>> stuff on top of all that. And all of a sudden "PDF-readers" become a 
>> really
>> shitty application platform just like what happened with HTML and web
>> browsers.
>>
>
> Interesting point of view. So PDF basically equals to HTML in that regard. 
> Never thought about it that way but you're probably right. :)
>

Well, they were both created as document formats ;)

>>
>> I usually like to minimize bitmapped stuff on pages too, just because 
>> it's
>> simpler, it can still get acceptable results, and I'm no artist ;)  But 
>> then
>> when the client has a design they want it to look like and it includes
>> things that can only be done as images, well, then I just don't have the
>> energy or patience to try to talk them out of it - I'll just toss in
>> whatever I need to to make it work, even if that means tables, and be 
>> done
>> with it.
>>
>
> If I get a design from a client I do that to. I don't use tables but most 
> often a combination of floats and relative/absolute positioning but 
> usually with quite a lot of images in it. Even if they don't have a 
> finished design arguing about it often is a lost cause anyway. However for 
> my own personal project (or in case I have to do the design myself) these 
> new CSS techniques come in quite handy (if the environment allows it...).
>
> I used it for my [personal website][1] and it was quite handy. The only 
> images are the header image, icons and the background gradient. The 
> gradient only because I was to lazy to look up the proper properties and 
> do some cross browser testing (not sure if Opera support gradient yet 
> though).
>
> [1]: http://arkanis.de/
>

Not to complain, just FYI, this is what that page looks like for me:

http://www.semitwist.com/download/arkanis1.png
http://www.semitwist.com/download/arkanis2.png
http://www.semitwist.com/download/arkanis3.png

Interestingly, if I turn JS on, than it'll look a lot better *until* it 
finishes loading, at which point it goes back to looking just like those 
screenshots.