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Things made by John Joyce.
About the site design, or lack thereof...
Yes this site is ugly, isn't it?
Deliberately so.
My only thoughts beyond a little CSS on-the-fly, were "keep it simple, old-school HTML is generally more than enough, because I'm sick of people using JavaScript to try and make so-called web-apps that try in vain to be like desktop apps and it just makes me suffer," then the concept "CMYK" (4-color printing, or another thing the HTTP protocol and HTML are not and never will be, hence the hideous color scheme), and a wee bit of color theory when choosing some colors. (for those curious, you will notice that the div elements with an id of "content" actually all have slightly different colors for their borders. The effect is that the border does not seem to change drastically while the body background color does... yawn...)
Anyway, don't be surprised if you return to this site to find it consisting of NO CSS and only xhtml, or even HTML 1.x, sometime in the near future. Yes, I'm talking about those blue, underlined links and pink ones that you have visited, with black text on a white background. Looks beautiful in Mosaic. It will great on computers from 1994 through the present. Who knows, maybe I will build a Gopher site...