First Post

Welcome, both of us, to the DHTML Zen Jungle.

I'm calling it this because, well, because it's very uncool to call your blog something like Patrick's Blog. You need to give it a catchy, inside, hip-referential name that immediately clues people in to the fact that you are both in-the-know and extremely narcissistic.

In this case, the casual reference I am making is to the CSS Zen Garden. Which, if you're a web developer and you haven't seen it, then you're definitely in the bottom quartile now. (So avast ye and go visit it.)

Re: CSS Zen Garden. It's pretty much the best known reference on the web for demonstrating how CSS can help preserve the separation of style from content. It's also, not coincidentally, the primary gun in the arsenal of the CSS zealot who wishes to proselytize the wonders of CSS. Be forewarned that this type of person will be pulling the CSS Zen Garden card on you very soon! Thank the Designer that you now know what this web site is all about!

But enough about that other site. This blog is about keeping track of all the wondrous little DHTML lint that floats across my vision, through my brain, and then all-too-often drifts off into the dead brain cell pile, never to be heard from again. I figure if I share all these little things with the world, then there is a much better chance that the world will be able to remind me of them.

Me: "Hey, that's a cool DHTML trick!"

You: "But you wrote about that in your blog -- that's where I first heard about it."

Me: "Really? That's cool! Wait, I have a blog?"