Rant about developers or how I stopped worrying and love the simplicity

I recently read a quote that in the 60’s we were able to launch rockets to the Moon with just two Commodore 64’s, while now we need a 2 GHz Pentium 4 to barely launch Windows Vista. What went wrong?

Simple yet perfect 2 column layout

Your probably have seen the Matthew James Taylor perfect liquid layouts. They are really good and I recommend them, but sometimes they are just overcomplicated for the task. This blog template uses a simplified version of 2 column layout that I came up with while working on it. It’s lazy compatible and here’s how it looks like.

Lazy compatibility

Preparing a website to be compatible (and backward-compatible) with all the different browsers and their versions is a pain. It literally destroys everything you designed and developed, because it often requires changes in the HTML, clutters CSS with new special cases etc. and generally forces you to compromise. I claim this unnecessary — I claim you could spend less time and resources on it (and money) and it would not hurt your image as much as you think.