Internet Explorer and the Great Beyond
I used most of the time I was going to spend working on the layout and content of this site today working on the new design for Wander Lust Records. Although my friend Dave is technically the webmaster, when he volunteered for the job he knew practically nothing about HTML and asked me for help. Throughout the year and a half or so I’ve done pretty much nothing on that front, so last week I showed him a little of the CSS I’ve been learning and then realized he could be much better served by using WordPress for his news page.
I also realized that I could learn WordPress by messing with his site, then use what I knew for my own. The problem with my web efforts is that historically I want to do things but have nothing to put up. Dave is always the visionary in our team, while I take on the practical matters of getting it done, so it was a good match.
As I explained CSS to him, I came to a point where I needed to use the * html hack for Internet Explorer (I’d like to link to an explanation of exactly what this is, but just try searching Google for “* html” and see what kind of results you get). I used a diagram of the Box model and finally got to that mythical box outside of the html tag. What follows is our conversation:
