Hi. I'm Paul Nixon, a designer living in Mountain View California. My days (and some nights) are spent designing websites for a little company in Cupertino. The rest of my time is spent with my beautiful wife and friends, road cycing and reading your blogs.

Spring Cleaning

Wednesday, March 26, 2003 02: 16 AM

Spring cleaning is taking place here. Rebecca spent the weekend cleaning our home office, so I spent the time cleaning nixlog. Why you ask? I don't know. Actually, the most pressing reason is my job. I work for a college as web designer now and I was tired of my site not having the fit and finish it should...particularly from a standards perspective, which is and should be a big deal in the world of education. So here is brief rundown of what I set out to accomplish.

My goals:

  1. Strict XHTML compliance
  2. CSS Validation
  3. Reasonable visual presentation without sacrificing appealing design.
  4. Still usable in Netscape 4.7 (hence tables...I'll tackle CSS layouts and 4.7 work arounds another day. Plus I work for a college where a small, but significant percentage of the in house PCs are still riding 4.7.)
  5. Easy content management with multiple blogs. I've grown tired of putting so many different types of links into one blog. I needed to expand the "reporting" to the key areas I have the most interest in...thus blogs dedicated to infographics, design, technology, photography and finally, my own words (which I am not really interested in but I need to share them). (pMachine is a fabulous product, however nixlog is now running on Moveable Type. I had to put in some study time, but it's paying off.)
Other items still on the table:
  1. Section 508 / Bobby.
  2. Alternate style sheets / color, font options / text only, etc.
  3. Usability / Info Architecture / etc.