The Zen of CSS Design featuring our work tulipe has been released. This book is a great resource on using standards-based design to create beautiful sites, and we are thrilled to have our work published in it. From the book: “Tulipe is a prime example of CSS being used both intelligently and responsibly.”
You may be aware that Dave Shea’s and Molly Holzschlag’s new book, The Zen of CSS Design, will be available in bookstores everywhere on February 18. You can check it out and order your copy at Amazon.
I’m pleased to announce that my design, tulipe, was chosen for publication in the book. Designs were featured in several different categories, from such luminaries as Mike Pick, Didier Hilhorst, and Ryan Sims, among others. My work appears in the “Special Effects” chapter.
I’m extremely excited about this. Not only is it the first time my work has been published, but the CSS Zen Garden has been an incredible resource for the web community. I’m thrilled to be in the company of some amazing designers, and look forward to seeing my copy when it arrives.
I suppose there are lots of meanings that title could have, and the actual truth is not really that sexy.
However, this site is the last of the several I maintain to move off of bluedomino.com’s extremely marginal webhosting. I resisted the move of this site, due to the three blogs it contains; each blog is a Wordpress install and the table names were the same. I was concerned that this would be a hassle. However, the bigger hassle has been really spotty email service lately, and I can’t afford to have emails not be delivered.
The one benefit bluedomino gave me was the ability to have multiple databases; my new host only allows one, so the table names would conflict if I put them in the same database. However, the actual process was pretty easy, because Wordpress is wonderful. I simply dumped each of the SQL databases, globally replaced wp_ with the new prefix in vim, and changed the config file to point to the new database. This is a really boring story, because it really was very easy.
All my sites are now hosted with catalog.com. I have been hosting one site or another with them for the past four years, and they have excellent uptime, fast servers, reliable email, and responsive phone customer service.
UPDATE: Catalog.com is a terrible company, with wretched customer service. I have left them and gone to textdrive.