Eli Van Zoeren

This election is getting more and more ridiculous.

For a project I am currently working on I wanted to use elevated initial capitals to set off each block of text. The obvious way to do this would have been with the :first-letter pseudo-element, which is what I initially did. This worked great in Safari, but in Internet Explorer, I got a series of bugs and idiosyncrasies that eventually became more trouble than they were worth. Line spacing was alternately too loose or too tight, depending on what I did, and in IE6 it interacted with the IE7-js script to make all but the first paragraph tiny.

I finally had time today to migrate the “Photography” section of my website over to the Expression Engine system that I am using for the rest of the site. So now everything is under one roof, with the same interface for uploading photos as for writing blog posts.

I am going to be back in Durham from June 3rd through the 14th. To anyone who will be there, let’s get together!

You may have noticed the very last line on this website, crediting the cms and host I am using. It turned out to be much more difficult to make that effect work than I was expecting, so I thought I would explain my code for anyone else who needs to do something similar.

Welcome to the new EliVZ.com!

This is my new home on the internet, where I will be posting articles about web (and other kinds of) design, and some personal notes along the way as well.