A FEW WORDS ABOUT BREAK MY FACE’S 2006 MAKEOVER...

In early December 2005, I decided it was time to add some new background images to Break My Face. Several years prior, I'd rounded up a handful of great 1950's paperbacks with face smashing themes. I dusted off Photoshop (thanks, Boris) and slowly eliminated the book's original cover text and created background images. My attempt to fix a single image to the page background began what became a line-by-line re-coding/re-scanning/re-writing of the entire site. With invaluable assistance from sites like w3schools.com and mandarindesign.com, I arduously assembled the pages using CSS and HTML 4.01 protocols. Along the way, I purchased an extremely helpful code checker at htmlvalidator.com which I highly recommend for all DIY coders. I rarely if ever spend money on programs, but the Standard Version was worth every penny of the $69 I paid. There's a free version with fewer features available, too.

Like all good punk fliers, the assembly of this site was 100% cut & paste and trial & error. One of the most frustrating aspects of designing web pages is that a page will look different on everyone's screen depending on their monitor, their settings, their browser choice (I'm really digging Firefox), their browser version, and on and on. I've beefed up the image quality and quantity and added MP3's figuring high speed connections are much more common than when Break My Face first went online. I believe I've made the code backward compatible with older browsers, though luddites may miss out on some of the cool background images. I don't have any use for Flash or animated goblin GIF's or pages that automatically play songs... in fact, I hate that shit. I've formatted under the assumption that most people will view using either a default "medium" size font setting or one smaller (ideal for viewing BMF as intended). On my beloved ancient monitor, I see only a small portion of the background images whereas friends with 1024x1280 resolution get to see the whole thing. If you can't see the full extent of the facial rearrangement going down, have a look at the source covers...