Skin Me, Baby & More Internet Communities

I decided to adjust my website to be a CSS playground. As much as possible, I am stripping away the look and feel from the content. This page, for instance, contains no tables or images within the HTML: the design is implemented in the style sheets. Although style sheets have some limitations, they are growing fewer as browser-makers become aware of standard implementations. I've become aware of another level: skinnable websites.

I'm not sure if this is the hot new thing, an old fad that I'm just discovering, or something that's considered cheesy by most people. I do now that it's something that I'd like to learn to do for my site. It should be fairly simple to implement, especially since I've already done the "hard work", the separation of design and content.

I've collected some interesting resources that will prove useful:
• domesicat.net's skinning a website tutorial, which looks like the resource out there for skinning
• love-productions.com's moveable type skinning help, which might prove helpful

I've also been introduced to two interesting new communities, geek-chick.net and blogbarter.com (from Dreama). I will be eyeing them with interest.

Neil Gaiman STUFF

I've purchased a number of DVDs, CDs, and magazines that I have yet to peruse. I've bought only one book in the past month, Thomas Harris' Red Dragon, which isn't really a new book, but one that I've already finished but found it AWOL from my shelf. I have decided that I must watch all my new DVDs and CDs before I put my order for new stuff. Specifically, Neil Gaiman stuff.

Neil Gaiman stuff I need to get:

• Telling Tales CD, Neil reading some stories
• Warning: Contains Language CD, more Neil reading stories with art by Dave McKean
• Signal to Noise CD, a radio play with Dave McKean artwork and voicework
• Shadow of Baker Street collection, Sherlock Holmes stories within the world of H.P. Lovecraft, Neil a contributor
• Winter's Edge, comic anthology with a Desire story
• Welcome Back to the House of Mystery, comic anthology with a clear reference to Cain and Abel on the cover
• Sweatshop #5, written by Peter Bagge featuring Neil Gaiman as a character
• Sandman, King of Dreams, written by Alisa Kwitney about the creation of the Sandman series
• Hill House Publisher's limited editions of American Gods and Neverwhere, which is a bit of a debate since they are $200 each (should I?)