Tim's Blog

I played around with the cascading style sheet on my website to add background images similar to this webpage. I ended up with this. It is kind of rough and not very nice looking at this point. I need to play with the colors more. Note: this is not viewable in Internet Explorer.

Last night at around 6:00 I got a call from one of my Dad’s friends, Terry Wong. He was in town on a business trip and offered to take me out to dinner. I agreed and he picked me up at my dorm and took me to Ferraro’s Fine Italian Restaurant. I had a very good pasta of some kind. The waitress asked me how hot I wanted it and I said “hot.” That is one of the things that I has been missing from cafeteria, spicy food. All the food that should be spicy they bland down so that no one complains. For an appetizer we had calamari that was superb. Mmmm. I am getting hungry just thinking about it. If anyone else is in town, feel free to stop by and take me to dinner.

From an article on slashdot I found this really well designed site. When I first saw it I was inspired to redesign this web site. Unfortunately the techniques that the guy who made the cool site used do not work on Internet Explorer. This is because IE does not correctly interpret the cascading style sheets standard. The cool thing about his site is that it was made with only HTML and CSS. No java script or anything else. If Microsoft starts to follow the standards and it makes IE display CSS properly, I may consider redesigning this website to make it look really cool. Of course I could be really clever and use php to direct any non-IE browsers to the new site. I’ll have to think about it. I have all weekend.