Although I haven't reserved much time for it lately, I love experimenting with css and trying to come up with new personal techniques to add to my bag of webdesign tricks. Usually this involves coming up with an idea, checking to see if it has been done, and trying to do it better. I'm a big fan of alistapart, as it's a community of people who have the same mindset. This time however, I decided to just wing it.

I really wanted to create a border inside an image as a decorative overlaying frame for the image.

The technique involves 2 <div>s. The first <div> is a container that I give the class picturebox. Picturebox has a background-image that I wish to display, an outer border to seperate it from the page, and padding defined in the css.

.picturebox {
	background-image:url(pontevecchio.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	border: 1px solid #000000;
	padding:9px;
	width: 620px;
}

The second <div> is actually the frame overlay that I want to put on the image, which I lovingly refer to as the framebox.

.framebox {
	border: 5px double #FFFFFF;
	height:440px;
	position:relative;
}

With the picturebox and the framebox classes defined the html is stupidsimple:

   <div class="picturebox">
   <div class="framebox"></div>
   </div>

And Viola!, a nice little css picture frame. I know there are probably other ways of doing this, but this seemed to work for me.

From a designer standpoint, the decision of which content management system to use is very clear. Nearly every one of my regular reads have movable type embroidered into their underwear. Lets face it, Movable Type is to Webdesigners what Apple is to Print Designers (and a lot of webdesigners as well).

There aren't many other popular options out there. If you're not in bed with MT then you are either programming your own database driven catastrophe, or using WordPress. Well, I'm about done trying to develop in my own time, all of the features offered by real content management systems. Although I like the challenges that programming bring me, I AM NOT a programmer by trade. The only reason I even consider the option of WordPress is that it is the chosen backbone of Eric Meyer's website. Sure, there are lots of people out there using WordPress - but as a designer, I go by what I see - and the Word Press fans out there aren't doing a great job of convincing my eyes...

The post below is over a year old, but somehow I get at least one person per 24 hours that ends up here by Googling for something related to Sushi and Publix. Comments on this post were never enabled since it’s so old. I actually don’t even live in Florida anymore, but fortunately I’m still close to my favorite grocery store and still enjoy Publix Sushi from time to time.

So what’s your excuse? Why are you here? I have to know WHY you are all searching for Publix Sushi, Sushi from Publix and Publix Sushi Department. Does Publix Sushi make you happy too? Are you curious about Publix Sushi but haven’t tried it yet? Is this the Publix PR department trying to find out what people are saying about their products? If that last answer is yes, please send me a Publix Gift card… Otherwise, you’ve got some ‘splainin’ to do. Comments are now open.

Update (1/16/06):

From the comments so far it looks like most of you are looking for the nutritional facts on Publix Sushi. I thought about asking for them at the store, but I decided to do a little research first. I remembered that the branding on all of the sushi is “Southern Tsunami” so I checked, and sure enough, they have a website: http://www.afcsushi.com

The Southern Tsunami website could use some work, but they do have a nutrition chart. Now I know that my Dragon Roll tray has 508 calories and 18g of fat. Not too bad compared to a Joey Bag of Donuts from Moes at 1121 calories and 29g of fat. But…not great compared to a 6 inch sweet onion chicken teriyaki from subway at 370 calories with only 5g of fat. Anyway, hope that research was helpful.

For those of you wondering how to make sushi, my friend Adrian posted a Sushi Tutorial on her site. (As seen in the comments below.) I still haven’t tried her tutorial yet but I did buy a “MAGIC julienne slicer” already and hope to get to it one of these days.

The original post:

Publix is the best grocery store EVER! Sure, other grocery stores are ok - except for maybe Win Dixie, but if the choice is available, I go to Publix. They always have the cleanest stores, the freshest produce, and the best selection of regular products. Some stores like Walmart Supercenters (which don’t exist here in Gainesville) can beat Publix prices, but when it comes to shopping experience, you get what you pay for.

I guess I’m on this little advertising rant because I’m on my lunch break enjoying my tray of fresh spicy rolls from the sushi department. MMmm. What other grocery store has a fresh sushi section? The only thing I’m not so sure of is if rice is on the diet that Amy and I are on.