Web 3.0 First Post!
When I first built Sandcastle, the blogging scripts that I use to build this site, I worked really hard to come up with a compelling and innovative style for the pages. Then I realized that I was spending all my time tweaking CSS and not actually a) building the blogging tool, or b) writing the blog. So I gave up, put up an absolutely minimal stylesheet, coded the HTML be semantic and stylable later, and figured it wouldn't matter for awhile because anyone who reads this site probably reads it via a newsfeed or aggregator anyway. I haven't been terribly happy with that decision, and I've been meaning to revisit it for a long time, but have not found time to get to it.
Then, via Simon Willison I saw a quote from Les Orchard:
Web 3.0 will have Galactica-style angled corners.
Well, that got me thinking, and I remembered a CSS technique from Lasse Reichstein Nielsen for creating custom angles in the page, based on Eric Meyer's Slantastic demo. A little hacking on Sandcastle and my stylesheet (and a small bit of Javascript) and I can now present the first (that I know of) Web 3.0 blog.
Still not particularly innovative or compelling perhaps, but I think it is better than what I had before. Let me know what you think!
Tags: Blogging CSS Python Sandcastle Web 3.0
[Permalink] Posted on 2007-02-23 by Dethe Elza