…where jack sometimes does stuff, but mostly not

Yet more decruftification is underway. I’m converting the different sections of the site, one by one. So far I’ve done my page and Holly’s page.

I’ve used Matthew Thomas’s hypothetical “Ultimate Weblogging System” as an outline, but I hardly claim to have met all the requirements he sets out. This is what I’ve actually done:

–decrufted archive URIs Basically, I’ve made it so you never see the query string. Instead of going to /jack/index.php?m=200308, you go to /jack/archive/2003/08/. The user shouldn’t care whether I’m using PHP or something else, and search engines (like Google) are especially wary about URIs containing stuff like ?foo=bar&baz=bat&....

–hackable archive URIs Once you see what /jack/archive/2003/08/24/ means, it’s nice to have /jack/archive/2003/08/ and /jack/archive/2003/ do what you expect them to.

–xhtml templates Well, mostly. The posts themselves might contain non-validating markup.

–table-free css layout Actually, not entirely table-free. Tables are valid markup; it’s just that they’re meant for displaying tabular data, not fixing layouts. I happen to have some tabular data – namely, the little calendar. So, I should really say, “table(-used-as-layout-tool)-free css layout”. Again, this makes no claim as regards the markup of actual posts, which is handled elsewhere.

Note that the CSS-based layout might not look right if you’re using an old and/or crappy browser. Please, I beg of you, go download Mozilla if you’re not already using a standards-compliant browser. I’ve only tested these layouts using Mozilla and Apple’s Safari.

–multiple styles See those links under “choose style:”? They make the page display with different styles. Yes, Virginia, the markup and page contents are always the same; choosing a style just changes the stylesheet. This won’t work unless you have cookies turned on.

–less ugliness I’ve tried to make the layouts slightly less painful to look at. This effort will continue, mostly when Holly has the energy to pester me about it. :)

So people keep telling me that Daphne looks just like me. I don’t see the resemblance, myself; I’m neither bald nor 21 inches tall.

On the recent trip to Utah, though, we picked up some of my old baby pictures. So for the curious, here’s a handy side-by-side comparison:

The Daphne	The Daddy
in the bath…
hanging out…
being comfortable with nudity…
Oh, I guess these are both me. You have to admit that there’s a definite Daphne resemblance, though.

So, yeah, I guess she does look like me just a little bit. :)

Update: Here’s the picture of Daphne that bears comparison to the last two images above:

This page will eventually be about Jack, but right now there’s not much here. The links below are mostly for my benefit, not yours.