A Fresh Coat Of Paint HTML

When I was a kid, I loved puzzles. I'm sure you remember the Rubik's Cube. Of course I had one. Hell, I had several... There was the typical multi-colored one that everybody had in the 80's. But I also had one with pictures on it's sides instead of flat colors. And I had the 16-square version of the Rubik's Cube (4 across and 4 down rather than 3 by 3).

I also had "The Missing Link." Remember that one? What about the pyramid-shaped thingamabob? There were others, and I owned every one of 'em.

I never solved these puzzles, mind you. I only bought them because they were fun.

Dominoes were another all time favorite of mine during childhood. My father owned a pool table which he rarely used, so I had plenty of space to set those little buggers up and knock 'em down.

I must have had thousands of dominoes.

It got to the point where I had a domino taped to string which was taped to the ceiling. When knocked down, that domino would fall off the table and swing across the room to trigger another set of dominos.

In many ways, building a website reminds me of childhood days of puzzles and dominos. The process of bringing text, graphics and ideas together with html to create something new can get intensely frustrating at times... but when everything comes together just right... aahhhhhhh!

It's like a favorite toy, except this time - when I'm done - I want people to touch my stuff rather than leave it the hell alone.

...hang on. Something about that last sentence doesn't sound quite right. Ahh well. You know what I meant.

As you read this, I am updating the site design of This Is The Box to version 3, with this entirely new look. It should be done within a day or two.

This is technically version three and a half since I scrapped an entire 'new' design due to the fact that Internet Explorer is a bug riddled piece of web feces. If you're using Safari or FireFox, you can see what that design was going to look like had I finished it.

In case you're curious, here are the designs I've used for this website over the past few years:

• The original design ("big text").

• Version 2 ("stick figure").

• The "stripe" design I created but didn't use due to the fact that Internet Explorer refuses to adhere to web standards (gripe!).

• And finally - again - the new design:
  This Is The Box, V3.

Soon, the rest of this website will match the new look. In the meantime, much of the site will still use the old design, and I will have more code to wrangle. I'll have it all finished within a a day or two (he says to give himself a deadline).

Cheers!