Nursemonster Apocalypse

Monday, April 14, 2003 » general update webdesign

...is this page's new name. I sort of didn't want this page to have a name. I also didn't want it to have a main page, so people would just pick wherever they wanted to go and get there right away. It would also seem more natural to just new stuff to each section and not have to mention it anywhere, but I couldn't figure out how to pull off a design like that unless every visitor bookmarked each section or something. So, that's too bad. Anyway, my point is that just as this page needs a main page to work, it also needs a name. So yes. I've decided to keep it at this same address, too, because nursemonster.electromaz.com is too long.

Anyway. I am proud of this new design. It has a much nicer appearance, the tables are a lot less junky, and instead of using 26 different images just for layout it uses three. Can you spot all of them?

This page also uses four fonts. Making people run out and download fonts to look at a Webpage is one of the items on my list of Web design don'ts, so I'm not insisting on anything. I'm pretty sure everyone has fonts along the lines of Times, Arial, and possibly Tahoma and Verdana. That's really all you need. However, if you want the page to look really spiffy, I suggest that you acquire the following fonts: Georgia, Futura, and Cochin. Georgia is used for all body text. It's a pretty nice font to have anyway, and one of my favorite things about it is that the numerals look like the page numbers in all those tiny, hardbound books that you had to read in middle school. 1234567890. They're awesome. Futura is a bit hard to come by, but it looks so much cooler than Arial or Geneva. It's only used for page titles, so it doesn't make that much of a difference. Cochin is definitely the most optional. It's similar to Georgia, but the lowercase letters are very slick. I think Cochin's claim to fame is that it's the new font Apple bundled with Mac OS X 10.2, which is probably why I have it. Based on Apple's boasts about how much all the pack-in fonts are worth, you may have trouble finding it for download. That's OK, though. It's only used for the update titles. Anyway, yeah. So, get fonts or not. It depends on how bored you are, and how much you care about how some dumb Website looks. I won't mention the fonts anymore after this update, though. I already feel extra anal.

I can't believe this month's largest entry is about fonts. In a way it's kind of cool, though.

Here it is, your moment of Zen.