25/07/04
16I'm back
Boy, did I need that break. There’s a mound of emails to work through, so if you’ve contacted me, please hang on, I’ll get there.
While I’ve been away, there’s been a few goings on…
- Dunstan has launched version 2 of his site, with even more sorcery and dark arts powering the site. Can you tell that he’s switched to Mac recently? Well done Dunstan.
- The IE development team (don’t laugh) have a blog. Good on them for allowing comments, but as Dave Shea remarked, any good that comes of this won’t affect our lives for years yet. Priceless quote from their round up of initial comments:
“IEv6x is the Courtney Love browser in a world of Kirsten Dunst browsers”
- Omnigroup released the version 5 release candidate 1. This means that we’re finally getting close to a proper release. More importantly, it means we’re closer to 5.1 – where they incorporate the latest WebCore (currently 1.2). Its faster, more stable and delightful to use as ever. The do-anything-you-want-to-with-them tabs and comprehensive history and bookmark searching keep me coming back to this sweet browser.
- Scott Boms showed us how to install the W3C Validator on OS X.
- I’ve picked up the latest from Mull Historical Society and Kathryn Williams. Recommended.
- I just love the Box Doodle Project.
- While I’ve been away, I’ve finally come up with a replacement design. Its taken me 9 months to find a design that I’m happy with. Its nothing to get excited about, and it will take me while to get it implemented, but at least I’m on the way.
More soon. Be well…
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Jason Santa Maria said 1578 days ago:
Well, I reserve the right to get excited about your new design anyway :PAdam said 1578 days ago:
Hey now, ho now, woah now! We wouldn’t be suggesting that one has to own a Mac in order to create a stunningly designed site … would we? Because, if so – phfffffffffptSo there.
Jon Hicks said 1578 days ago:
Whoah there boy. I’m just saying that elements like the red flash, and sliding down panorama information is a little ‘OS X’. Thats all!matthew said 1578 days ago:
You cant redesign this site, thatd be sacrilege! ;-)Colly said 1578 days ago:
I’m excited about a new Hicks design. Nine months in development eh? A ‘labour’ of love if ever there was one. Here’s to many late nights, Jon….keith - SuPeR K! said 1578 days ago:
i love your current design :) it would be cool if you left your current stylesheets available as alternates after your redesign…Adam said 1578 days ago:
Okay, I believe you. But I’ll be watching you Hicks. Trust me, I’ll be watching.;)
Scott said 1578 days ago:
Welcome back Jon! Alot of things have been going on lately I know. If you ever check out http://photomatt.net he has just bought a ton of mac supplies also.James Selvage said 1577 days ago:
Welcome back!I found hicksdesign by accident really and I can’t believe you are not completely happy with its design. Did you create it all from scratch or does it use a content management system of some kind?
However, I am excited by the prospect of an update!
Take Care
James
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Tristan said 1577 days ago:
Wooo… a redesign from Jon Hicks? I’m looking forward to it. Care to keep the old style around just in case though? I think it’s one of the cleanest designs on the web, and deserves to be seen some more.Mike P. said 1577 days ago:
A redesign of one of the coolest and freshest looking sites in the blogosphere? Noooooo!Jon Hicks said 1577 days ago:
I’m afraid an option to go back to the old design won’t be possible. The new one uses far less DIV tags, which would need to be put back in for the old design to work.It’s not going to be a radical redesign anyway!
Scott said 1576 days ago:
I have seen some sites that use a cookie to see what style is set and then load the right header or template based on that. You couldn’t do that?Tristan said 1576 days ago:
That’s okay Jon, I’m sure whatever you do can’t be worse than this. Er—I mean, it has to be better. Erm—make that, I’m confident in your ability as a designer to improve on your past work. Yeah, that works. ;-)I’m sure it’ll be great and I look forward to seeing it.
Scott’s right, though; with PHP you could detect the style the user selected through a cookie, and then throw different headers and footers on. I don’t think it’s worth the trouble though.
nik taylor said 1575 days ago:
Hope you had a good holiday. Lots of sandcastles and ice creams!Just wanted to thank you for the link to The Album Leaf the stuffs really good. Have you bought the new Tanya Donnelly yet? The digital download costs £8 and includes 2 extra tracks. Its very mellow.
I hope you work through all your ideas for a new design. Look forward to it in the near future
Jon Hicks said 1575 days ago:
Scott / Tristan – Yeah it would be shame to clog it up when I’ve managed to cut down on the amount of tags and css needed. I’ll mull it over…Nik – no, haven’t heard that yet, anxious to get it!