I’ve been working on a restructuring of this blog and decided it was about time I entered the modern age.  I’ve always pretty much developed CSS by hand in Notepad.  This is, to say the least, a frustrating and time-consuming experience.  Now I’d heard of dotLess from Daniel Hölbling’s blog and thought it was time to give it a go.  (As an aside, I know that dotLess is a ruby port.  Many of these issues may well also apply to the original codebase.) In summary, dotLess is good and I’m enjoying using it, but it could be great.  Let’s start with...

If you're actually looking at this page on the web, rather than viewing it in Google Reader as my stats say is more likely, you'll have had a bit of a surprise yesterday.  This is why I've been so quiet recently: I estimate that I've spent something like four man days on this skin and I've got to admit I'm quite exhausted.  Although Origami is a good professional skin, half of the .NET internet is using it and my customizations probably weren't noticeable to most of the users of the site. Let me set out what I wanted to...