The Man in Blue > footerStickAlt: A more robust method of positioning a footer

I'm always looking for ways to use CSS to enable layouts that weren't possible using other coding methods. Often I'll create the design first in Photoshop and then challenge myself to come up with a technical solution. This is how I came up with Emulating Position: Fixed; when working on Jade Lee's website. But sometimes it's nice to find a pure CSS solution to a common layout challenge that somebody else has come up with, and add that layout to the list of possible layouts next time you're designing in Photoshop.

As someone who steadfastly charges hourly for freelance work I try to avoid creating unnecessary code challenges for myself while in the design phase because when it comes time to code I'll either have to compromise the design or decide to put in extra un-billed hours because I want to solve the problem for personal reasons, but that would be bad business if I were doing freelance sites for a living rather than as a hobby to work on my design skills.

Parasites brainwash grasshoppers into death dive

parasites, placebos, the list of things that manipulate the brain continues to grow.

Cybil's Site #1 for a New Zealand Google Search

She doesn't have the same rank in the .com version of google, is there something I don't know about Cybil and New Zealand? (à la Susan and Australia from Coupling)

SonSpring Design

This site's one where you'll want to hold your breath and activate that IE View plugin. As much disdain as I do hold for American Christains, I link to this site for it's excellent message for Internet Explorer users (which for those not running IE on XP looks exactly like the warning messages in that woeful browser).

Newton Canyon on Bike

Location

From the 101, 7.9 miles up Kanan Road (becomes Kanan Dume Road at Mulholland Hwy) park right before the 3rd tunnel. Head west down the trail into the canyon.

Misadventure

This trail fucking kicked my ass. I walked the bike halfway back up out of the canyon sweating profusely. There are plenty of excuses, the heat, the washout from this spring's heavy rain, but it all comes back to that I'm horribly out of practice biking and horribly out of shape. Oh well, I'll get there.

I think I'd better go back to Las Virgines and Malibu Creek and get a little better at this biking thing before trying the Backbone Trail again.