This blog has turned into a bit of a dev diary for the awkward background process of creating this site.

And since it's become a bit diary-like... What's a diary without a mash note, so here goes:

So I'll say it: I'm falling in nerd-love or at least heavy nerd fondness for this CS system and asp.net.

I'm not yet ready to replace the current home page with the reworked version, but I've been working on the new version without (as far as I can tell) breaking the current version. And I've been doing it with in the no-no process of making changes on what will become the "production" server since I still haven't set up a decent dev server locally.

But CS has this wonderful system for making those kinds of changes mostly in the background with a "Live Preview" feature.

It's taken me a while to get here with my too-scattered approach, but now that I've become more comfortable with asp's master-page notions with "ContentPlaceHolder" and "Content", the beauty of the system is shining through, along with CS's implementation of their custom controls.

Moving the stuff on the front page over to a simpler CSS-based layout has been remarkably simple. (The biggest delay I ran into this afternoon had nothing to do with asp.net or CS. Instead it was one of those lame-brained CSS-file mistakes that I didn't identify quickly enough: "margin: 16" instead of "margin: 16px". I know that. I should have seen it right away. But I didn't. Sigh.