Dreams of the Quill

About DotQ’s Layout

In the making of this site, and the laying out of its content, I am constantly faced with difficult decisions.

Whether or not to support Internet Explorer was not one of them. It doesn’t support web standards and renders pages incorrectly without fail. If you like your DotQ eggs scrambled, use Internet Explorer. Actually, I don’t even know if it handles this site well because I don’t test for it.

Whether or not to support Opera was one of them. I basically have the choice between making the site look awesome in Mozilla or making it look decent in all modern browsers. In order to make CSS be properly cross-browser without using hacks, I need to use a .php stylesheet. This works fine for Mozilla and Safari, but for some reason Opera chokes on it. Rather than make the site look good across browsers but fail to load at all in Opera, I make the site look good in Mozilla and allow it to load somewhat shoddily in Opera. I think it’s a pretty good deal for everything involved.

I’m bad at font-family declarations, so this site looks incredibly funky on computers that don’t support … I forget which font it is. Oh well. You know who you are, you, the one wondering why the site looks so funky. I also use some special characters in places (stars, Japanese characters, etc.) that might not sit well with your computers.

Following are some browser recommendations:

Camino
�� This is the absolute best web browser for the Macintosh. It’s not “like Firefox but Mac-only,” it’s a native Cocoa-based OS X application that integrates with the operating system and handles webpages with impressive dexterity. Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers are nothing before it.

Firefox
�� I recommend this if you’re on a PC. It gets the job done. I hear Opera is better, but I know next to nothing about it on PCs so I’m not linking to it. Firefox is not everything most users chalk it up to be, but it’s more than three times as good as Internet Explorer, so it’s several steps up.

All in all, I think I do a pretty good job keeping the site up to date with web standards, checking my code against W3C validators at (almost) every change. There are some things I can’t do, but hey���if I could do them, the internet would be a better place than it is now, else I would be more of a professional than I am now. I hope that navigating DotQ is as fun for you as creating it is for me. Thank you. ~Flak, Admin of DotQ

History of DotQ Themes

• 1. Proboards - white on blue
• 2. Bravehost - orange on gray on white
• 3. Hostmatrix - orange on gray on white
• 4. Hostmatrix - Wordpress with “Default” theme
• 5. Hostmatrix - Wordpress with customized “Pool” theme (v1, ’service da’)
• 6. Hostmatrix - green and white, 100% custom code (v2, ‘Last Breath’)
• 7. Hostmatrix - green and white, Wordpress with custom theme (v3, ‘Not Dead Yet’)
• 8. Hostmatrix - pink and white, Wordpress with custom theme (v3lol, ‘April Fools’)
• 9. Godaddy - green and white, Wordpress with custom theme (v4, ‘Puppet’)
• 10. Godaddy - blue, white, and black, Wordpress with custom theme (v1r, ’service da’)
• 11. Godaddy - green and white, Wordpress with 100% custom theme (v2r, ‘Last Breath’)
• 12. Godaddy - green and white, Wordpress with 100% custom theme (v2r+, ‘Last Breath’)