{"id":524,"date":"2003-03-07T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2003-03-07T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/03\/07\/3-7-03\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T21:10:53","slug":"ive-discovered-the-joys-of-cascading-style-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/07\/ive-discovered-the-joys-of-cascading-style-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve discovered the joys of Cascading Style Sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered the joys of Cascading Style Sheets.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking into snazzing up my journal and letting it graduate into a full fledged blog but I can&#8217;t find a solution I like! I might just stick with my home-grown FrontPage-flatfile-FTP system for a while. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movabletype.org\/\">MovableType<\/a> looks real nice but stupid Earthlink won&#8217;t let me run MySQL in my account! Just as well. I&#8217;m a tiny little skiddish about putting my journal in a database just yet. Flat files work darn good at keeping things simple.<\/p>\n<p>This search was predicated by my cousin John, who asked me how he could make a journal like mine. His primary wish is to have a journal that his kids can view in years to come. So my wishlist started with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>    Easy to maintain &#8211; Flatfiles are good for this. Nobody wants to spend hours converting their old diaries to the latest and greatest format.\n<\/li>\n<li>    Easy to backup &#8211; many online providers don&#8217;t do this well&#8230;. So if some dopey dot-com goes belly-up, my diary gets burned in the process?!\n<\/li>\n<li>    Easy photo storing &#8211; Photos are an essential part of a journal! Most blog providers don&#8217;t do photo hosting.. they just leave that &#8220;as an exercise for the reader&#8221;. But keeping the right photos with the right journal entries is a chore that the computer should just take care of!\n<\/li>\n<li>    Easy updates, including links and revising previous entries &#8211; A couple blog providers have blog clients that make editing go smoothly. They&#8217;re nice.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Someone HELP ME! I&#8217;ve found <a href=\"http:\/\/directory.google.com\/Top\/Computers\/Internet\/On_the_Web\/Weblogs\/Tools\/\">lots of resources<\/a> but none that work for me. Grrr, I think I&#8217;m going to have to put on my DIY hard-hat, switch ISPs so I can run MySQL, install MoveableType, configure it, and then scream (because I will have then put in some 20 hours of work into essentially doing <strong>nothing<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered the joys of Cascading Style Sheets. I&#8217;ve been looking into snazzing up my journal and letting it graduate into a full fledged blog but I can&#8217;t find a solution I like! I might just stick with my home-grown FrontPage-flatfile-FTP system for a while. MovableType looks real nice but stupid Earthlink won&#8217;t let me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}