Monday, January 14, 2008

Gallery

I made the gallery. It was a bitch. I got the indexes confused, and it took me a long time to straighten it out. And then I went to dinner, which means the time stamp is probably a long, long time off. I want to put captions on my pictures, but I don't know where to put them. There's no room.

Back to working on the site.

Coming along

I finished Lit 220, and am done for the day. I also got lunch with the guys. And, I've been spending the last hour and a half or so on my website, which is getting better, all the time. Did I just rip off a song, there?

Anyway, all of the layout troubles are fixed. Plus, I created a banner. And I added some javascript. When you go over the links at the top of the page, the actual banner does a rollover, adding a little descriptor about the link your are hovering over. Pretty sweet. I learned how to preload images (I never understood Javascript, but it's fairly easy now that I have a solid backing in Java) too, so the rollovers work nicely.

The homepage is done, as is the about and contact pages. Well, I need to learn some php to put a contact form on the contact page, but for now, there is a link to a fictional (though soon to be real) email address. It is somethingsomething-at-hotmail-dot-com. I don't know if that will stop the automatic spamming, but I don't really care. A good feedback form will come in the future and be nice, but until then I can live with sorting through a little spam.

The pictures page needs to go up (it's empty now, except for the header), as does the videos page (same deal). Also, I need to completely design the page for my trip pictures. That is going to be a whole different design than my portion of the site. But that comes last right now (ooh, oxymoron). And there is also a page or two that I completely forgot about, that I will have to whip up. It's a good thing my template is easily duplicated and modified.

Lastly, I'll be transferring my blogs to the site. This must be done online, though, when I actually get the site. I'll be adding them via fantastico. I think that's it. Gotta post on my other blog now.

Done... again

I redesigned my site last night, finishing just a few minutes ago this morning. Not to look different, mind you. It looks exactly the same. The trouble was that when I set my monitor in 1027-768 res, whenever the site had a vertical scrollbar, the space that took up caused it to have to scroll horizontally, too. Everything I tried to do to fix it messed something else up even more, so in the end, I chucked it, and redesigned. I am happy to say that the site is fixed. Everything works the way it should on my homepage. I still have to redo the other pages, but that shouldn't take too much doing. Too bad I have class in an hour, though.