I’ve done a little more work on the re-re-vamped Total Carnage site. It’s starting to take shape and look a little more like a real website now. So far, the niceness only works in Firefox as I’m using solid div background colours with an alpha-blended PNG to add highlights. I’m led to believe this technique can be used in Internet Explorer, but I’ve got to look into this still (due to IE’s inability to display alpha-blended PNG images…). The idea of doing things this way is to eventually have a user-configurable colour scheme. I’m basing it on a pasty-orange colour to start with, but I might change that, but of course, doing things this way makes it easier to change the colour scheme.
Under Jon from work’s recommendation, and some research by myself I found out it’s better to use XHTML 1.0 as silly IE doesn’t understand valid XHTML 1.1 properly as it does not accept the application/xhtml-xml content-type header properly. I’m not bothered either way, but I’m making sure it’s valid XHTML and CSS all the way. You might notice that the Ext JS isn’t valid CSS, so I base the “valid CSS” theory on just the CSS I’ve written, which is technically cheating a bit, but I don’t have the time/energy to go through all the Ext JS stylesheets and make them valid CSS.
The whole seperating the content from the design thing is going well nonetheless, and have a look here if you want to see how the site is progressing.
