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LRR Site

So now that I’m done with the vacation journal and photo work, I can catch up here on some other things that have been going on. Over the last couple months I’ve been working on re-designing the Lab Rescue web site, and completed the work a couple weeks ago. You can see the results at www.lrr.org. I think it looks much better than my previous version of the site that’s looked pretty much the same for the last few years. You can see the old version here for a short time until I take it down for good.

Inspiration and tools for the new look came from a variety of places, including:

• The book, The Principles of Beautiful Web Design
• Stylegala’s gallery of web site designs
• GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program
• WellStyled.com’s Color Scheme Generator
• Colors on the Web’s Color Wizard
• Typetester to compare screen fonts, styles, and colors
• The Octopus Engine for shaded, rounded corners
• The Details are in the Symbol Fonts, from “Ask the CSS Guy”
• Showing Hyperlink Cues with CSS, from “Ask the CSS Guy”
• Position Is Everything, for tips on dealing with MSIE bugs
• BarelyFitz’s Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps makes a confusing topic quite simple