Yesterday I decided to be a good boy and tidy up my online archives and backups of my writings; I try not to keep things here at home, if I am burgled it is probable that not only the computer but also my backup hard drives would disappear. So I prefer to have my beckups elsewhere. Except I’m not very meticulous about this. Neither in the rgularity, nor in the nomenclature. So that took all yesterday to clean up and sort out archives.

Today I decided to have a look at this site and clean up the code and get things looking a little more as I wanted. So, I started by looking at the code on Kim’s site as there is less there, it should be quicker and easier to start off with… famous last words. It’s always the last ten minutes that takes four hours to do. There are some weird “undocumented features” in Pivot the system I use to do all this. Notably, if you use Pivot code, images are always centered. Not what I wanted.

I don’t have access to a Windows machine, so I can’t see whether IE chokes on this—probable. [if anyone sees any problems let me know].

I am happy that the layout uses no tables, and—patiently reading through the w3c specs I managed to do everything in CSS including a bunch of little things that I’d never managed before. I can see room for improvement, but considering the time that this took… I’m wondering if I really want to tread that path again.

Anyway, armed with the knowledge from today, I can look forward to messing up my blog tomorrow.