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09.16.08
Adding A Black Or Colored Border To Your Web Page
 By Dave Taylor
I saw that on the anniversary of 9/11 you changed your Web site home page to have a thick black border and some commemorative words. Nice, low key, and still effective. How'd ya do it?
Dave's Answer:
Glad you noticed. I spent a lot of time thinking about how I wanted to commemorate the tragedy of September 11th, 2001, and the loss of life both on that day and subsequently in the Middle East as a direct result of the attack. A graphic seemed too subtle. A blog entry seemed like an awkward fit on a tech Q&A blog, and replacing the site with a one-page commemorative seemed a bit too over the top for me. So a black edge seemed like a good middle ground.
To accomplish that, I made a surprisingly simple tweak to the HTML template that's used to build the home page for the Ask Dave Taylor site. Most weblogs have template-based site design -- which is one of the great benefits of using a weblog tool as the foundation for a web site, of course -- so it's pretty straightforward.
The results were a page that looked like this:
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About the Author:
Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and is
internationally known as an expert on both business and technology issues.
Holder of an MSEd and MBA, author of twenty books and founder of four
startups, he also runs a strategic marketing company and consults with firms
seeking the best approach to working with weblogs and social networks. Dave
is an award-winning speaker and frequent guest on radio and podcast
programs.
AskDaveTaylor.com
http://www.intuitive.com/blog/
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