Now I enjoy the NFL just like the next bloke. When looking for news on the Seahawks (oh yes, Seattle rule) I found that I was having to search round too many NFL sites (NFL.com, ESPN, Seahawks.com etc etc), to find out all the news from the Seahawks camp.

So, what did I do? I built a site which syndicates a huge amount of NFL RSS news feeds for every one of the 32 NFL teams from an array of NFL news sources. Take a look at www.firstandgoalnews.com. If you want to get all of your teams nfl news in one place, check it out:

Right, this is the first post on my blog, so lets make it a good one.

As this blog is being launched in conjunction with my new freelance design site, Facio Design, I’m going to concentrate on how this was created and eventually coded.

The inspiration for the site came initially from my creative influences which are predominantly nature orientated. My newly designed logo was also influential and for continuity the typography is used throughout the site.

Using png’s a lot, I almost always have to use conditional comments to get everything to work in ie6, but this time i used a conditional comment to load an alternate stylesheet:

<!–[if lt IE 7]>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”your-stylesheet-for-ie6.css” />
<![endif]–>

People who still use ie6 now get a site which looks good, but if they had ie7 or better still Firefox, would ook just that little bit prettier, and whilst I’m on the subject… Please, everyone, if you haven’t got Firefox, get it here:

It’s free and so much better and safer than Internet Explorer and you can get excellent add-ons too