Cookbook 2.0 Is Served

Posted on April 15, 2008 by mvrankin

Time again to peek in on our cookbook project and see if it’s baked yet. You know they say you lose 10° every time you open the oven door. So does that mean if I opened it enough times, I could turn the oven into a freezer? Just wondering.
We left off last time with

decent-looking code, [...]

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Family Cookbook: Can I Borrow A Cup of CSS?

Posted on April 8, 2008 by mvrankin

Still a few things left to do before our cookbook project is cooked.
First thing is to get some Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to give the cookbook some personality on the Web. As you probably guessed from the fact I’m using a canned WordPress theme, I’m not a web designer. But I want to be one [...]

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Family Cookbook 2.0, part 3

Posted on April 6, 2008 by mvrankin

Has it been more than a week since we left off with the cookbook project? My how blog time flies. Let’s continue.
During the first two posts on this topic, we converted the old XPress file, and tagged the content in InDesign and exported it. Right now we have XML masquerading as HTML. Let’s open it [...]

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Book Report: The Art & Science of CSS

Posted on April 2, 2008 by mvrankin

I was at the library today and snagged another book that I’m excited about: The Art & Science of CSS by an Australian publisher called Sitepoint. It’s written by a team of 5 “visionary” Web designers, one of whom lists mass.gov in her portfolio. It’s definitely not for anyone new to CSS. It assumes you [...]

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