Be cool and stay in school!

I found this bookmark in an old book I bought in the early 90s when I lived in New York. So funny. I’m using it now for the CSS book I’m reading… he’s definitely encouraging me to BE COOL and keep at it. I’m 3/4 of the way through now! That’s about the farthest I’ve ever gotten in any computer book. I’m learning so much so fast, and with this dude’s help I’m determined to make it to the end!

Have you noticed the little changes I’ve been making to the site? No big deal, just messing with the colors, adding some rounded corners and trying to clean up the template code and slightly div-happy CSS, now that I know a little more what it’s supposed to be doing. The next step is going to be to make the page stretchy instead of fixed-width. I’m happy to report that I’m finally using nothing but CSS for the layout — no tables at all! Nary a one, not even in the header. Which, by the way, is a little problematic if you try to squish the page to a narrower width than around 700px, because the nav-bar wants to butt into the stuff on the left. That’s another thing I need to fix, but I’m new at this sort of thinking so I have to ponder it awhile. :-)

I wonder if this Sam Goody dude was a real character with a name and a universe? Or is he licensed from some DC comic, I wonder? Probably not. I tried Googling him, no luck yet. God, look at that mullet.