CSS Project: Phase 1 Complete

By Daniel Miessler on January 16th, 2006: Tagged as CSS | Programming | XHTML

Ok, so I’ve finished migrating my pseudo-static content from my WordPress database to actual directories. It can be reached via the navigation in the top right, or here:

Check out the /tools page, by the way; notice that it validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict. Yes. Kneel before Zod. Oh, and my brand spankin’ new custom CSS stylesheet validates too. I made that thing by hand, completely CSS formatted — no tables or nuthin’.

Now for the most difficult part — making an entirely separate stylesheet just for my main page (this blog), aka “Operation Un-Gimp”. This stylesheet, like the one for my static content, is going to be tableless and all that good stuff, but it’s also going to have a left-floating sidebar in the primary content area, i.e. it’s going to look just like you see here, but with no tables whatsoever. I’m redoing the entire thing from scratch.

Wish me luck.

If you come to the site tomorrow and see nothing but a bunch of bright green Wingdings, you’ll know it didn’t go so well.

  • http://www.skryking.net/ Jason Ormes

    So what is your reason for this conversion from using wordpress to generate your static pages?

  • http://www.skryking.net Jason Ormes

    So what is your reason for this conversion from using wordpress to generate your static pages?

  • http://dmiessler.com/ Daniel

    There are a few reasons. Most importantly, I don’t like archiving static content, i.e. tutorials and such as text in a database. There’s just something about it that bothers me. It just doesn’t feel tangible to me — like I can’t completely “touch” it. I know it’s weird, but that’s how I feel.

    Plus, URLs are important to me — explicit location information. My previous method was to use Apache trickery to get entries in the database to look like “urls”, i.e. /study/nmap, but they really weren’t. There never was, until last night, a directory called “study” on my webserver. I dislike that, and prefer it to be “real”.

    More than anything it’s a feel issue for me. I just prefer my non-blog content to be “solid”.

  • http://dmiessler.com Daniel

    There are a few reasons. Most importantly, I don’t like archiving static content, i.e. tutorials and such as text in a database. There’s just something about it that bothers me. It just doesn’t feel tangible to me — like I can’t completely “touch” it. I know it’s weird, but that’s how I feel.

    Plus, URLs are important to me — explicit location information. My previous method was to use Apache trickery to get entries in the database to look like “urls”, i.e. /study/nmap, but they really weren’t. There never was, until last night, a directory called “study” on my webserver. I dislike that, and prefer it to be “real”.

    More than anything it’s a feel issue for me. I just prefer my non-blog content to be “solid”.

  • http://www.kenswain.com/ Ken

    By Solid he means able to edit it with a text editor and upload it. I do like to have structure but, I have used the apache trickery because I like my information to be in a database. I like it to be easly backed up. It just all works for me. We all are different.

  • http://www.kenswain.com Ken

    By Solid he means able to edit it with a text editor and upload it. I do like to have structure but, I have used the apache trickery because I like my information to be in a database. I like it to be easly backed up. It just all works for me. We all are different.


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