Choose Your Style For The Site
Don't like the look of this site? Change it, then! Choose below for a different 'skin' for this site (requires cookies) :
- default - This is the default style
- midnight - This style is a dark, space-age style
- classic - A classical style. Kind of...
- zen - Zen Monochromed (Opera/Moz Only)
- minimal - Removes superflous items
- accessible - High-contrast style for accessibility
- windowsxp - This style mimics the default Windows XP theme in honour of Bill Gates :)
Note : You may need to click Refresh or Reload on your browser to see any changes.
How It Works
The reason it's so easy to change this site's look and feel is that all stylistic elements are rendered using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) whilst all markup is coded in XHTML (the successor to HTML).
Using XHTML allows you to divorce all content from style, meaning you don't need to change your mark-up to alter the design. This has the advantage that it frees you from the typical rigid, inflexible designs that most sites still cling to. It also means that user-agents (browsers) can easily render your site according to whatever technology the viewer is using (whether that be a typical PC, a hand-held PDA, iDTV or whatever other new paradigms the future may bring).
"For the last seven years, we've been pushing Web design further and further down the same path. Once we found out that we could take tables and bend them into design, we jumped all over the idea. But at their heart, tables are grids, their rows and cells strict and confining. We could change their shapes, yes, but only in groups. We spanned the rows and columns in search of more flexibility, trying to sneak our way around the limitations. But there, in amongst those rows and cells, we got trapped into a certain way of thinking: this was possible and that was not; this could be done but that was too much effort to be worthwhile.
Like tables, there is another highly limiting structure that's composed of rows and cells: a prison. It's time for designers to break out. "
- Eric Meyer (CSS Guru)
