PDQ adds css to design repertoire

I've been designing websites for a few years, using the handy RapidWeaver program with themes designed by the Swiss musician Christoph Richardet at Rapid Ideas. I managed some useful sites – you could look at the NEAHOF pages, for example. I also worked on a Wild Apricot membership management site for the Association of Author's Representatives.

I became frustrated at the distance kept between my will and the results. The other designer or design teams or engineers between me and the presentation of the material did not have my ideas in mind; some things inevitably went wrong. I have been used to getting my way, from my first designer days when I would go into the composing room, look over the compositor's shoulder, and ask him how he was going to give me the page I wanted.

So I sat down and started making this page from scratch, using css and html. Lots of mistakes and pains later, thank you Vince for your patience with late dinners along the way, you see the result, not as elegant as I would like, in terms of the simplicity of coding, but doing generally what I had in mind.

What's next for me is a cross-country library tour, if the support is there. And on this site, to take the text files and make them live documents, with interactivity and more depth of information. If you have thoughts and ideas, tell me on Fb at Vincie, the kame·kaze one.