Site Status

Feb 2010: In addition to a site redesign, many minor corrections have been made (in particular an attempt has been made to cover more climate zones), and the site is organized a little different from previously.  Many illustrations have been added to the energy section, but other sections still need work.  The Seattle house notes still need to re-written in summary form--the original notes are interesting, but too much to wade thru if you just want to find out what we did.

The site is now XHTML1.0 and CSS2.1, although it hasn't been verified yet.  That means that if you're using an older browser (ie IE6.0 or older), the pages are likely to be very ugly.  The site is optimized to run under firefox.

Thankfully, many people have documented all the quirks of HTML/CSS, and so I'd like to thank all the various websites that gave me ideas on layout without tables, how to get around all the quirks to Internet explorer, why "vertical-align" works only sometimes, why "text-align:center" works on text and images, but fails miserably when you try to attach a caption to the image, and so on.