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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Thanks for the input, guys. The style sheet switching has been giving me extreme agita--every time I think I get it working right, it goes and breaks again. Slime: I will [b]definitely[/b] be taking a look at your style switching code. I love ALA, but I have had nothing but problems with this switcher. Of course, I don't think it is their fault--it [i]should[/b] work, and I think it probably does have something to do with the way IE handles cookies when the page is accessed from different locations (for example, I just typed in the address without the "www" and the style didn't show...). But the fact of the matter is that it [i]doesn't[/i] work--at least not very well. (I commented out the onload function, as you recommended, since I probably won't get around to looking at your code until this evening or tomorrow.) DL: Not sure how well I managed to hide it, but I too have a distinct distaste for "blogs," and for the same reason. And that is precisely why mine is a "journal" and not a "blog"--as you noticed. The distinction seems to escape some people, though, and I have to chuckle when people say things like "don't listen to your wife about blogs." But I know they mean well, of course, and I certainly do appreciate the support. My wife has yet to read the entry, but when I told her what I put in the pullquote she just grinned. As for where I got the idea for the pullquote/inset thing (since people have mentioned it in the past as well), it was from a magnificent article at ALA called [url=http://www.alistapart.com/stories/readingdesign/]Reading Design[/url] (yep, their style switching code may not be perfect, but stuff like this is spot on). At the end of the article the author has "An Entirely Incomplete List of Things a Non?Illiterate Designer Should Know Before Being a Designer." Every one of the points he makes is well worth considering, but I was especially struck by the second one: "That words themselves make remarkably effective clip art." It was almost like an epiphany for me, and in a flash I saw exactly what you see on the front page of my site today (if the style sheets are actually working, that is). I'm not sure if that's what he was talking about, but it inspired me, and that's where the idea came from. I'm not sure that I've ever seen a blog/journal with a pullquote in it, but I really like it. It takes a certain amount of guts to pullquote your own words (which I managed to get around this first time by quoting my wife), but if you do it right I think it can have a great impact. I specifically chose that quote, not because I felt oppressed by my wife or I wanted to whine about what she said, but because I knew it would catch the eye and make people want to read more. It's something like beginning a conversation with someone by slapping them in the face--at the very least you know they're not going to just walk away from you. ;-) Ah, but I'm rambling again, and this is probably not the place for it. I will try to get around to the style issue ASAP, and I'll let you know how it goes (or, I guess, [b]you[/b]'ll let [b]me[/b] know how it goes). Loading...
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