Design and licensing changes

28 Sep 2004

As regular or semi-regular visitors here would note, there have been various minor quirky design changes in the last several days. Most immediately evident is the new background pattern, sourced from squidfingers most excellent patterns resource. If you’re particularly attentive, you would have also noted the changes to the footer of this website.

Those who aren’t unfortunate enough to be stuck using Internet Explorer would have possibly appreciated the footer for looking kind of snazzy… for the benefit of those poor sods stuck with IE, here are some screenshots of the footer in various browsers.

Firefox 1.0PR

Netscape 7.2

Opera

Konqueror

I’m a fan of the way Opera handles it, personally, but I use Firefox 1.0PR at the minute for day-to-day stuff. Of course, if you’re using Internet Explorer, it should still be perfectly visible, but also boring and generally crap. Switch over! If, of course, you can’t, for one reason or another, then my sympathies to you. If you choose not to, no such apology is forthcoming! (yes, I know, personal preference… Pfft!)

Aside from the purely aesthetic, of course, there is a reason for these changes. Not for my tinkering, but for the display and presentation of content. There’s a new license in effect, you see. Well, actually, it was probably always in effect, I just never got around to making it public — the Creative Commons license this website is now formally under is that which I’d planned to use since the inception of this version of the website. So, there we go. Just for the sake of convenience, I’ve reproduced (in text-only form) the Creative Commons deed human-readable summary here.

You are free:

• to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work
• to make derivative works

Under the following conditions:

• Attribution. You must give the original author credit.

• Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

• For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work.
• Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

There we go. Please, enjoy my content. You’re free to do whatever you want to it, within those constraints, but it’d be nice if you told me just so I can go take a look. That’s not a requirement of the license, of course, but it’s something I think would be nice.

If you wish to use content here for commercial purposes, or without the requirement of attribution, feel free to get in touch to discuss licensing.

Note that this licensing does not apply to content otherwise marked.