I’ve posted a few times already, but decided to “start over” because the design is so close to final that I’m content with it. There are a few things I’ll be changing (or harassing friends to change for me), but the majority’s done. When web design changed from hacking shit around in HTML to make it look like the sketch on your napkin to something a lot more like actual programming, we parted company. I’ve grown increasingly reliant on other, more patient and code-adept people for the heavy lifting. Fitting, then, that I should begin (again) with an acknowledgment of the assistance I’ve received.

First and foremost, Steve Klassen, Oz without the cheap tricks, the man behind the curtain when the man behind the curtain actually knows what he’s doing. Steve’s thunder is not electronically amplified and his lightning will actually kill you. He’s responsible for the the initial software install and preliminary taming, a role he’s reprised many times at my request.

Jason Tucker, for meeting the CSS in a dark alley with a baseball bat and emerging the victor. Tucker’s the designer I would have been if I’d had the stomach to learn programming, and he attacked a task I was dreading with genuine enthusiasm. It was like “Dude! Big bowl of glass? Let me get my spoon!”

Finally, Jonathan Daugherty, for giving the CSS the last powerful shove it needed to align itself to my picayune preferences. Six pixels of whitespace were yawning like a chasm in my detail-obsessed imagination, and Jonathan generated enough code to fill in the abyss.

Gentlemen, I’m indebted to you all.

Preamble over. Posting to start in earnest very shortly.