No Styles For A While
I'm turning off styles for a while.
For the last couple of weeks I've been trying to create another style and have been running into trouble. Between Firefox and Opera caching pages, the Smarty engine doing it's own cache, and the cookie settings, I am having a hell of a time designing. I've broken the first two styles a couple of times because of the Smarty caching stuff and I don't have cookies working the way I want them to (or my browsers are the culprit, which is more likely). For a while at least, I'm going to dictate the style. Perhaps once I get on top of the Smarty/cache/cookie stuff I'll re-enable them, but for now they're just causing problems. If this is going to act anything like a portfolio, I want to have control of how it looks and don't want someone stumbling into a bug or anything weird.
That said, I am looking for inspiration for some styles. I am getting frustrated with the colors on one of them, so I started another monochrome style. I'm also trying to break from my comfort zone of 'simple'.
Also, I've created my own bug-tracker so that I can keep track of what needs to be tweaked. As it is, I'll start something and not finish, or forget about it and then when I edit something else, more breakage occurs.