So, curious as ever, I took a look at the site stats to see if anyone still visits this site. At one point I guess I could of boasted a pretty good site turnout of around 20,000 uniques a day. Now? 150 if I'm lucky. And those 150?

Well, they almost all come from two links; one at Blue Robot , the other at Glish.

See, once upon a time, I created a rather useful CSS stylesheet. Rob Chandanais at Blue Robot tweaked the javascript out of it and since them about a bazillion sites have used it as the base of their website.

The funny thing is that I get a continual stream of visitors from the people developing their website using the template. Sometimes I'm staggered by just how many people continue to use it. It is everywhere. For instance here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here (epic fail), here, here, here (I'm a Republican Benefactor!), and thousands of porn sites (going through my referrer lists was a treat and a half).

At the time I didn't see anything particularly special about what I was doing. When I leapt into the web in the late 90's there was this thing called HTML, and something called CSS, and, as someone who spent a LOT of time formatting documents at the time, CSS just seemed the logical way to go. So I built my website in it not realising that, at the time, almost no-one was doing this.

In the end I was still cheating with a tiny amount of javascript, and it was Rob's elegant solution that changed the site to a complete CSS solution, and he deserves every credit for it.

So, for the steady stream of web travellers who pour into the site entirely by accident, to see a formatting solution that doesn't exist here anymore, based on content I'm no longer even writing, Blue Robot and Glish, I salute you.

Meanwhile, I just checked this current site layout in Firefox. What a mess!