2006 November 28
The website update has taken longer than I originally envisioned. I've settled on a simple
cascading stylesheet for content layout. This has been combined with a perl script to include
site navigation data along with content. These to items should make the addition of new material
a simpler task.
Now that site layout is under control (though at this stage rather uninspired), the next step
was to remove stale content. To that end, all bad links have been removed. It turns out there
were quite a few bad links - that's what you get for keeping 12 year old links on your site. I
will next update the content which is hosted locally. Most notably, The Cure have been relatively
active while this website has not. As a result, there are a few dozen new song lyrics which need
to be added to this site.
2005 October 14
It has been five years (about the time I passed my qualifying exam and began my PhD research in earnest) since this site has been actively updated.
In that time, a lot of cobwebs formed at the Ahimsa Coffehouse. Pages which should have been updated were not and the content on this site became increasingly dated.
That is about to change.
Over the next few months, I will be updating the existing content to take advantage of what is now accepted cross-platform design. Key among these upgrades is the use of
cascading style sheets. Cascading style sheets have gained wide acceptance since 1999 and I can reasonably expect that nearly all visitors will be using a browser capable
of interpreting styles.
Pages which have been updated to use styles (but not necessarily updated for content) will appear in a grayscale motif. Once the entire site has been overhauled, I may or
may not switch to a more colorful scheme. In any case, the inclusion of styles should significantly reduce the complexity of such a change when compared to editing raw html.
If you have any comments or questions about this site, please send a message to the webmaster.