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title: "April Fool!" date: 2004-04-01 20:40 status: published tags: The Twaddle, April Fool, CSS, XHTML, the Web

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Only kidding - it's not really. </p>
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Last Wednesday (the 24th) we “relaunched” The Twaddle. In fact, the only change made to the XHTML was the addition of unique page id's - something I've always done on Mooquackwooftweetmeow but never used. The rest of the jiggery and/or pokery was accomplished using just CSS and a few Google Image Searches - a testament to the power of CSS and the excellence of my XHTMLing. </p>
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We've also got some nicely foolish spiel on the front page about The Twaddle shutting up shop. In case the date of March 32nd, and the <q>Can you say April Fool?</q> message at the bottom of the page didn't tell you: it's an April Fool, fool. And finally, we've screwed with the forums' word filter, replacing innocuous conjunctions with words such as <q>cheese</q> and <q>Alan Shearer</q> - see <a href="http://thetwaddle.proboards27.com/index.cgi?board=atrium&action=display&num=1080773096">http://thetwaddle.proboards27.com/index.cgi?board=atrium&action=display&num=1080773096</a> for the complete damage assessment. </p>