How to assemble 20+ individual graphics into a round shape? The "egg" layout was about precision tables.

Beyond this page you'll find very little ascii text. It's possible to put words into graphics and so control the look of your page. It's even possible to make these graphics lightweight: now that's skill and an art. Do it well and you'll have steady work for the foreseeable future. I'm unhappy with the way your browser displays my work. That's why I build most of my sites with custom graphics. David Siegel introduced me to this method, and I've never turned back. It's good for everyone but Lynx users and the visually handicaped. Frames. Now that Microsoft and Netscape have made them invisible, I've brought them into the stable. You can do neat things this way: click on one of the section balloons to the left to see what I mean. Try doing that in a print document.

Duotones! I wanted to use them in this issue, but it's nearly impossible to mage the gifs and jpegs cooperate in the Netscape (dithering) palette. How does it look on your monitor?

I have been doing a lot of design work lately. This issue has undergone numerous designs and redesigns since October of 1996. I blame my continued relationship with design and a load of experience building web sites for other people. Concurrence is my laboratory. It's here I experiment with color reduction, new layouts, information architecture, and shiny stuff (like javascript). I'm also doing this to showcase the work of my talented friends, and reflect something of their work in the layout. This makes for a wild assortment of layouts, colors, etcetera.

Endo san had a profound influence over my work for a weekend or two. I call this the rustic look.

Concurrence is foremost about content. I've tried to make selections based upon what works on a computer monitor. You'll find scroll bars only when a particularly interesting poem (or a long essay) demanded them.