Open for business

I’ve decided to start slinging freelance work in order to pay the bills, which suddenly appear much larger now that my income has bottomed out. And health insurance, Holy Christ, what a cost! People on payroll, take heed.

To that end, I’ve updated my self-promotional website with a new resume and a new look. I doubt I’ll get mistaken for a designer, but it was still a fun to play with colors.

To layout the site I used Blueprint, a CSS framework. It makes grid-respecting columns very, very easy, but breaking the semantic wall feels a bit dirty. For example, to get three columns, one would do:

<div class="container">
    <div class="span-8">
        ...
    </div>
    <div class="span-8">
        ...
    </div>
    <div class="span-8 last">
        ...
    </div>
</div>

After having the separation of presentation and content pounded into my head for years, this seems like sliding backwards somehow. Wouldn’t a true guru just assign meaningful ids and figure it all out in the stylesheets? Probably. But in the interest of speed, it’s hard to argue against such a quick, well-working solution.