After a long, long time, I finally decided to sit down and work out a preliminary design for my website. So it was that I spent the better part of yesterday afternoon and night writing (X)HTML and CSS. Have finalized a basic design (light on graphics,
standards-compliant).

Nothing said or written about CSS will be complete unless I verbally kick Microsoft IE for its crappy CSS support (No, I am in no way an anti-Windows/anti-Microsoft zealot; but CSS is one good reason for you to hate IE). It is simply maddening to write any cross-browser conformant CSS at all. Great God Of Cyberspace! Why can’t they conform to standards? CSS that works like a charm in Opera looks crappy or needs major patching up for IE. Since a disgustingly overwhelming population of the Web world uses IE, there is simply no way out for a CSS designer than to pay attention to IE’s idiosyncracies and infuriating oddities.

Switch to Opera. It’s been my favourite ever since I started using it. Simply the best Internet Experience. End of story.

(No. No. No. Mozilla Firefox is not as good. Orders of magnitude better than IE, but orders of magnitude lesser than Opera. You’re welcome to defend your stance otherwise.)

Elsewhere: