One final test. I’ nice to see that ‘curly single quotes’ look a lot better than straight ones, and are, of course, more typographically nice . Excellent.

One final test. It’s nice to see that ‘curly single quotes’ look a lot better than straight ones, and are, of course, more typographically nice . Excellent.

I was thinking just now about how long this site has been around. It’s been long enough now that I forget quite how long it is. I would guess around three or four years. It started off with just ShellOn and one of the most weird designed I have ever come up with. It had a black background with white text and a logo that I knocked up in Adobe ImageStyler in about five minutes. Still, for a first site, I was quite impressed. I was using tables, which for some reason surprised many people I spoke to, for they thought frames would have to be used for a layout like that.

Damn it, curly quotes are screwing up the links… why, oh why! Oh well, for now just search for Opera and Firebird on Google =)

I've just discovered a cool little tool called [Textile](http://textism.com/tools/textile/index.html) over at Textism. It allows you to type in a reasonably natural way and will format certain character combinations in certain ways. for example, putting underscores around a section **makes that section italic** and so on for lots of cool formatting goodness. I have some of the stuff working with regular expressions in my site now, but the formatting commands used in Textile have given me some more ideas for other things to add!