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Rot3K Graphics and Web Design

Rot3K Graphics and Web Design presents [X]HTML, CSS, Web Design and Development, presentation, and layout information along with free code, graphics, and links to assist with your latest Web projects. We also function as an affordable (but professional) Graphics and Web Design firm.

Recent News

12/1/02: The new CSS layout redesign has finally reached a state of completion that allows for public upload. There are bound to be some kinks and bugs to work out, and maybe a little smoothing of edges, but aside from that the main task is now simply updating old content. If you encounter any bugs (or even anything that doesn’t seem to work correctly) please consider dropping us a line with the information. For the next few weeks we will be making touchups to the themes, fixing little bugs, and handling the aforementioned updates.

5/29/02: You can now get a professionally hosted POP3 email account through us for a small fee. Available domains include rot3k.com, kongming.net, and badcompany.org.

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Update History

12/11/02: I have prepared a new tutorials section – Microsoft Windows. Content will be dedicated to fairly common tasks that could be performed much more efficiently with extra information, and other Windows features and capabilities that many people simply don’t know how to accomplish. For these tasks we will use only the Windows OS and original software. The first tutorial in this series is “Screenshots and MS Paint” – take a look.

12/2/02: For the time being the “Default (high-resolution)” theme has been removed from the Style Sheet submenu. It was fun to have around, but because all current version of IE Windows don’t support CSS fixed positioning a third party JavaScript was required to mimic the effect. Although well written, this script caused temporary layout breaks (when loading the theme) and made text vanish (around images inside link tags). We were able to come up with work around, but we also discovered that the script was accounting for over 40% of page download times (obviously far too much).

The theme is still intact and may be activated from the Style Sheet Information Page (by Mozilla, Netscape 6 or 7, and IE5 Macintosh users), but will not be included in the dropdown menu until at least 70% of our viewers uses browsers with proper CSS fixed positioning support (we have a long wait ahead).

12/1/02: Rot3K Graphics and Web Design has been redesigned from the ground up using a CSS-based standards compliant layout. Not only does this significantly reduce page sizes, but it also speeds updates and gives you control over the site presentation. Users with 4.x and older browsers will no longer be able to view the site layout (and will instead receive a barebones presentation), but all important content remains accessible in any browser.

A collection of different style sheets (or “themes”) has also been added (see the “Style Sheet” option in the menu bar). The idea is to present different styles for different types of site viewers. For example, choosing “default hi-res” causes the navigation bar to stay onscreen as you scroll down (Windows Internet Explorer users must reload once after choosing to make it work) while there are options (sans accessible and serif accessible) that default to larger text sizes and are compatible with Windows Internet Explorer’s text zoom feature (great for high-resolution monitors and viewers with less-than-perfect vision). To use them you must have a modern browser.

A great deal of this site’s content has been rewritten or improved (some is still out of date, like the browser downloads page and links page, but they will be updated soon). Some testing still needs to be finished, but we didn’t want to delay the new layout anymore than necessary. Some bugs may be discovered, but there shouldn’t be anything that we can’t be fixed with a few tweaks to the style sheets. I hope you enjoy the new layout. If you have any questions, comments, or have any difficulties at all please send me an email.

9/18/02: Complete site overhaul and redesign started, no small task as every page on the site needed to be rewritten to accommodate the major changes.

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