Bossa Nova

My fav genre of music would be Jazz, more specifically Bossa nova and Astrud Gilberto would be the queen of Bossa Nova, at least to me. Here is another good fan site.
 
I love the dreamy + romantic + nostalgia feel bossa nova has and songs like Girl from Ipanema and Corcovado would constantly be on my top 10 list
 
Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado)
Quiet nights of quiet stars
Quiet chords from my guitar
Floating on the silence that surrounds us
Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams
Quiet walks by quiet streams
And a window looking on the mountains and the sea
How lovely
This is where I want to be
Here with you so close to me
Until the final flicker of life’s ember
I who was lost and lonely
Believing love was only
A bitter tragic joke
Have found with you
The meaning of existence
Oh my love.

CSS – Cascading Style Sheets

Have been using alot of Style Sheet elements of late, but apparently Netscape & IE both interpret them quite differently. Its either i don’t use some of the features provided by CSS or i stick with the “majority” browser. hmm…. Why can’t they just follow the W3C’s standards?

Anyway, i think one of the best CSS information on the net would be Cnet Builder.com‘s CSS reference table. If you wanna have some funky formating, go ahead!

EC201 Tutorial 1 – Website Review

When you think of websites what kind of visual image do you have in mind? Websites usually have a navigational bar on the left with a logo on top of that and the main content on the right with a title and some graphics, some words and that’s basically what comes to mind. If that was what you have thought of, then you are not wrong, because many people do have that mind set too, even our very own Blackboard website for our EC201 unit is designed like that as well. I always wanted to see websites that have a total different look and feel, a collection of good stuff that people say is considered industry standard. Thank God I happen to come across Coolhompages.com.

 
Coolhomepages.com is currently my most visited website. I think by far it has the best collection of links to well-designed sites that is worth a look at.

 
The site although having numerous links, is still very well structured and it is very easy to navigate through the entire website. The collection is categorised by the kind of look a website has and also the kind of function it has. Categories like Ultra Hip, Very Clean, Nav Bars, E-commerce, E-zines, Corporate, Futuristic, etc. To make things even easier for the surfer every link has a thumbnail of the particular website’s main page.

 
Coolhomepages.com also has another collection of useful resource links for web designers. Links to font sites, links to sites that emphasis on colour usage, links to sites where generally a web designer goes.

 
It also has its own Message Board focusing on web development and design. It allows web designers to have a place to communicate, a place where people can exchange ideas, know one another and also discuss about the latest developments in the Internet industry.

 
If you do come across a good site, do go and fill in an online form on Coolhomepages.com and nominate it to be listed there.