Okay, so this is where we get to toss around ideas and plans for new site schemes. Welcome, everyone, planners and commenters both! If any commenters would like to join in and volunteer time to work on this, please let me know.

Current State of the Scheme: I am working on a CSS framework that can be used to make a lot of different schemes, and will support both sidebar and dropdown options. It will have huge numbers of divs with unique ids and classes, so later designers should have all the parts they need to get just about any effect they want. The sidebar version is pretty complete, and I'm currently testing the dropdown version in different browsers. I think the header, menu and footer CSS can be set by the end of the week, and be ready for new color schemes to be started.

Anyone who wants to take a look at the current development can see my testing page here. Remember, this is a single sample page on a totally different server, so if you click any of the links you'll wind up back on IJ. Comments are welcome; remember, this is the in-development version to test concepts, and bugs may show up and go away without warning. Nothing is finalized yet.

Of course, if anyone spots a layout bug they know how to fix, please let me know!

General background: My thought, here, is to have the header (with menus) and the footer be include files on all the site content pages, so they can be easily edited at need. Personally, I'd like to get the page content re-coded out of tables and into lists and divs, but that isn't absolutely vital right away. I am writing for standards compliance, as much as I can, and for a minimum screen size of 800x600. Maximum, of course, is unlimited.

That's all the basic info I can think of right now. If any visitors have questions, let us know, please.