A few weeks back I read a book called Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS, and let me tell you; it totally rocked my world. You think you know something and then you learn you don’t know it at all.
Honestly though, this book really helped me brush up on some XHTML/CSS tricks that are well thought out and smart. …Hence the book title.
I had been planning on cleaning up the markup / stylesheets and the giving the look a facelift for a while. So this book just gave me the motivation I needed.
Bookis did the initial research on how to do those cool shiny backgrounds. So kudos to him. They were actually real easy once we learned how.
The feature set of the site is basically the same. The markup and css is considerably cleaner and lighter weight. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, don’t worry about it. Most people on the big ol’ web have no idea and don’t need to. (It’s the code that nerds, geeks and designers write to make web pages look the way they do in a web browser.)
A feature that was added recently was the ability to change your password from within the site. I know, long overdue, but better late than never, right? You can find password changing in your ‘My ZD!‘ section if you’re logged in.
It’s fun to think about how much the look of the site has changed in such a short period of time. I’ll be putting together a gallery and short history of the many faces of Z!NEdistro soon.
