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yeah, you heard right, you fuckin simps: BIG TEN CHAMPIONS. that’s sole champions, Michigan… why don’t you choke (ahem…) on that. hahah.

seems that Illinois still can’t get any respect… i heard some of the talking heads on ABC saying how it’s bad for the other “big name” schools to have to play Illinois, because we don’t have the “tradition” (Red Grange, Dick Butkus, anyone?) they do. well guess what? you’ll know where to stick your “tradition” after we put it to you in a BCS bowl.

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oh boy. the site redesign…

well, i worked a ton over this Thanksgiving break on this Web site. writing now, on Saturday, i probably won’t be able to remember all the crap i did. as is often the case, over about six months of construction, the site sort of got into disarray. not from a visual, external angle, but internally, there were some things that needed to be cleaned up. so, i sucked it up and…

1. fixed all pages to use the following basic format for the content:

   <div class=”content”>
     <div class=”title”>title text</div>
     <div class=”contentbox”>
       blah blah blah
       yadda yadda yadda
     </div>
   </div>

   it makes it a lot easier to control positioning through CSS.

2. changed the site-wide common files to use the more logical /ssi/common and /css/common directories, with page menus using /ssi/menus. this involved lots of batch find-and-replace with a program called BK ReplaceEm.
3. completely streamlined both base.css (positioning and non-color properties) and colors.css to pave the way for easier site updates and schemes (to be explained later).
4. tweaked out the look of the site a bit.
5. deleted all the extraneous crap that had accumulated on the server.
6. implemented schemes…

oh, and remember this: Netscape doesn’t like formName.fieldName.value. it prefers document.formName.fieldName.value.

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