A Note on Rough Edges

I've been building the main part of this site using Blogger, a weblog tool that is, by and large, the "industry" standard. And overall, it's been extremely easy to use. I modified a template they had and added pages that I'm hosting at my own space at Mac.com. It's been a fairly long week or so of tweaking and reviewing pages, knocking out copy, uploading, and doing it all again.

Throughout the process, I've been using Macintosh OS 9.2 and IE for Mac (I'm not a big IE fan, but a deep-seated entropy has kept me from moving my whole digital life over to OS X and a non-evil browser like Opera or iCab; "free" has, sadly, been the operative word, making me the Micropoly's bitch).

Tonight, however, for the first time, I went to look at the Pinchbeck Anthemion through Netscape. If you're looking at it through Netscape (or, frankly, any other browser, including IE for Anything But Mac OS 9.2), it's possible that this site just looks like crap.

While of course I should be a master coder who can spend four days without sleeping, debugging a site in Linux, chugging Jolt Cola, and maintaining my own "Bring Back 7 of 9" Web campaign, clearly I am not.

All I can do right now is say that, if this site looks particularly nasty, it's not my fault and I'll do what I can, when I can, to fix it. My apologies for any wounded design sensibilities. Please know it wasn't for lack of trying (it's 4 a.m. in my brain right now, so I'm rapidly approaching the point of diminishing returns). Trust me, I'm mortified.

That's all for now. Wish me luck. Thanks.

Colin