Three years ago, I gave a forgettable URL name a more meaningful and shorter one. It started in 1993 with dgs.dgsys.com/~mevans, then it became rampages.onramp.net/~meryl. Couldn’t come up with cool name like many of you have. For once, I appreciated having an uncommon name even though no one can spell it or prounce it right and sometimes assume I’m a guy.
Two goals for this site in the next year:
- new XHTML / CSS design
- new Web host
I was going to switch Web hosts before today, but got sick and spent more time on the sofa than on the computer. As for the redesign, I’ve been talking about it since last year so we’ll see if I walk the talk or keep talking. Hey, what if I held a contest offering Eric Meyer’s awesome CSS book and a Google mesenger bag from the Google Quiz (no picture available) to the winner of the best template for meryl.net? Any takers?
I guess it would help to give an idea of what it should contain. Here’s a bare bones HTML page to help things along with the basic things it should contain. Everything content-wise (not the colors, not the style) on this blog page should be there. The cr@ppy graphics can be tossed. One requirement is to make the main content area white or at least, through a style sheet switcher. I plan to convert the Gotchas into blog-style for easier management and more frequent updates, so the new template will be applied there, too.