A few posts ago, I discovered Thematic, and instantly added it to my blog. I figured I’d tinker with it and have a new design in a few days.  Just as I was starting to dig in, I found the 960 Grid System, which instantly took up all of my attention.  I didn’t want to redo everything I had just done, so I decided to redesign my dad’s website.

Soon after starting in, I learned that Thematic is built on the 960gs, and that I had altered essential pieces of code in my Thematic design to the point where I was better off starting over than trying to fix it.  It didn’t bother me though, because in a few days, I had a draft up & running.

Tonight, while googling for some css tips to help me make what I thought could be the final touches, I discovered this. I started tinkering with it a little while ago, and I’m now discovering that I had again altered essential pieces of code and was better off starting over than trying to fix it.

Fortunately, I came up with this in no time.  It’s not as close to finished as I thought the last design was, but it has ridiculously clean code.  On one hand, it’s a bummer to spend hours & hours on a design, only to find that someone else has not only designed the same thing better, but has made it into a public-use template.  On the bright side, it can only happen so many more times before someone else is just designing my dad’s page for free.