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• Sizing Images With Percentages CSS feature that allows images to resize according to browser window size.

• iBackpack - Backpack Pages Optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch
• Worship, Not Evangelism, The Most Important Task The quote here from Robert Reymond, although tending to paint a broad brush on evangelicalism, points out the primacy of worship over evangelism as the reason for going to church (a counterpoint to Christianity Today’s “What Evangelism Isn’t” perhaps).
• Should They Accept Christ as Personal Savior? “The sinner in his natural state has no power in himself to accept Christ as his personal Savior… nor has he any real desire or intention of doing so for the reason that, as stated above, his “carnal mind” is “enmity against God”"

• Styling with CSS and Flash - .net magazine

Jeffrey Zeldman today discusses the use of Clarendon in his work. I correctly observed his use of the ubiquitous typeface in the redesign of Zeldman.com but I totally missed the initial implementation of it in the redesign of Happy Cog. I guess I haven’t really followed Zeldman’s body of work closely until recently, when I started subscribing to his sites’ RSS feeds using Net News Wire.

I bought Zeldman’s book Designing with Web Standards sometime last year but I am now just reading it. It’s a book that pushes for the building of forward-compatible sites by advocating web standards such as XHTML, CSS, XML, ECMAScript and the DOM. I’m glad to say that I’ve been coding in XHTML for a while now. Thanks to my faithful reading a few years back of the now-defunct Web Techniques magazine (which became New Architect), I was convinced early on of XHTML’s benefits and was taken by its easy implementation. I’ve also been using CSS stylesheets in lieu of the <font> tag and other deprecated formatting tags. But one thing that I have not gotten myself to do is to use CSS2, or layer positioning. I’m still a holdout for tables, even sometimes for ones with a smattering of one-pixel gifs to hold them up (yeah, I know, kill me now). My last foray into CSS2 experimentation was frustrated by a yet fully web standards-compliant IE 5 for the Mac and the equally-wanting Netscape 6.0.

I remember promising in 2003 to serve up a new version of DeeBeeDee before the year was over, but alas, it has not happened. But thanks to Zeldman’s book, I’m convinced now is the time to finally take the plunge into CSS positioning. It’s also time to finally get rid of this awfully dark and archaic-looking site. My transition from a Pirouz/Siegel design disciple to a Zeldman zombie is underway.

I checked my blog page in Internet Explorer on a PC the other day and to my horror, none of the images were appearing! Even the CSS specifications weren’t showing. I checked my page in Netscape and everything was fine. All the Mac browsers render my page just fine. Apparently, IE for the PC doesn’t resolve server-rooted paths so I changed everything to relative paths. That solved the problem. So everything should appear ok now. I’m just horrified that my page had looked funky for so long to IE PC users, who unfortunately comprise the majority of internet users. Yikes.