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I totally appreciate complete focus on content.But is there any specific reason that people would not want to use any form of templating/styling?

This is a genuine question and not sarcasm.I have seen this sort of styling on several sites which excel in material provided.

EDIT: I do love the content.Gonna be trying this this weekend

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From the other perspective, I was just about to say "thank you for the plain HTML".

So much easier to read than the trend of #CCC on #FFF...

I wish more sites were plain html. You can do better, but it's easy to do a lot worse, to the point of unreadability.

I also hate the grey-on-grey, so I made a chrome extension to change it to black-on-white: https://github.com/bentrevor/emblacken. I found a gist with the js and de-obfuscated about half of it. It works on almost all sites.

Chrome lets you set keyboard shortcuts to run extensions, so I press it once to change to black text, and again to use a white background.

The website is under construction, I haven't gotten around to styling it yet. Any suggestions on what it should look like?

If you look at the homepage I have the skeleton of a layout and styling there: http://jdpressman.com/

There are some html syntax errors in the (caveman2:make-project) line. :)

Yeah I haven't figured out how to fix those yet. I'd be happy to when I do. They're also ruining my Unix V7 tutorial.

Are you using Markdown to generate those HTML files?

Yes, and you asking the question managed to be enough for me to diagnose the issue, thanks.

I'm glad I was of help to you. cheers :)

Just don't force the background to bright white please.

> I have seen this sort of styling on several sites which excel in material provided.

Maybe it's not a coincidence.

I have ideas for things to write but I never finish them because I am so bad at styling a web page and never get them close to decent looking. So this is much better.

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