9) Berlin: City of Smoke, by Jason Lutes
I really enjoyed the first volume of this series, and I really enjoyed this one as well. Covering the period from June 1929 to September 1930, it doesn’t have the same narrative climax (May Day 1929) as the previous book, but it does have a strong set of internal plot arcs. Marthe and Kurt delve deeper into the heart of what makes the city tick, but at the cost of their own relationship; Kid Hogan, an African American jazz clarinettist, finds love and corruption in the city’s music halls; and the marginalised, the exploited, the Jews, the Communists, the unemployed, all have their stories at least illuminated if not necessarily told. I’m only sorry that, first, we will presumably have to wait another four years for the next and final volume, and second, that it will presumably only take us to the Nazi seizure of power. But this is strongly recommended.
Tables are deprecated for layout in HTML, they should only really be used for data that needs to be tabulated, that’s primarily for accessibility reasons, both screenreaders and text browsers can find them very hard to resolve properly. There’re a bunch of other reasons that’re in the web standards but basically it’s bad for low vision users and non standard browsers, plus lots of technical stuff.
The narrowness comes from teh way you’re zlternating the view-each cell with an image is given a width of 200, which effectively defines the column width, so all the text is squashed as well.
Ideally, CSS would work well, each row should be in a DIV and then each cell a separate div, and you can align left or align right the cells with the pictures in.
<div><div style=”float:left;”>Text goes here</div><div style=”float:right;”>IMAGE here</div></div>
There are ways of doing a proper table with CSS alignments but they work best with a stylesheet which isn’t an option for site skinned pages (plus, I’ve not learnt them), but the above should work well.