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title: 'A Sense of Accomplishment'
url: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/a-sense-of-accomplishment'
markdown: 'https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/a-sense-of-accomplishment.md'
date: '2009-09-18'
description: 'There is nothing like the sense of accomplishment from a job well done. And, every once in a while, I get a design problem stuck in my head. Often, it is about attempting to work with limited tools. With this site migration to drupal, I decided that my entire theme would be built in css, no hacks, …'
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# A Sense of Accomplishment

## [A Sense of Accomplishment](https://stevenjaycohen.com/journal/a-sense-of-accomplishment)

    18th Sep 2009   [drupal](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:drupal#body-wrapper) [google](https://stevenjaycohen.com/tag:google#body-wrapper)  

There is nothing like the sense of accomplishment from a job well done. And, every once in a while, I get a design problem stuck in my head. Often, it is about attempting to work with limited tools.

With this site migration to [drupal](https://www.drupal.org "Drupal's Home Page"), I decided that my entire theme would be built in css, no hacks, and no extra images. I began by matching my original Google Sites theme, but with the new functionality, I needed to go a bit further. Using some CSS tricks (including font embedding, text-shadow, position:absolute, and display:after), I’ve came up with a theme that I really like. And, it seems to degrade well on older browsers.

If you see anything that looks a bit “off”, let me know.

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