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I’ve messed around with the entire site. I talked, and talked, and talked, and now I finally did it. The backend is now MT, and the frontend is all crazy-redesigned. Now I need your help. As always, different browsers display things differently, so I don’t know how my pages look on your browser, and I need you to tell me. So hit ‘comments’ below and tell me. Thanks.
And all the usual apologies if you get 404 errors all over the place. What can I say, I’m a complete hack.
*cough* is this thing on? *cough*
Looks spiffy on a Mac and IE5…. which is probably what you’re using. Sorry. I’m useless.
Well, you’re using it on OS 9 I assume, which is slightly different from my setup…
Augh! My big problem is with the image links right now. Even in Mac IE, they get a blue background when you mouseover. In IE 5.5/Win they have a sick blue border around them, all the time. I thought I had taken adequate measures to avoid this, but I was wrong. Should be fixed by tomorrow.
I think it looks bitchin’. What else can you do?
funny enough. That MT link you put up doesn’t actually use MT on their page. I mean, The type doesn’t stay within the dimensions of the window as you change them. Is that just one feature of MT or are there more?
kinger, that’s not a MT issue. MT is strictly backend – auto-archiving, formatting, comment sytem etc. You have to do the templates yourself, which I did with CSS – that’s where you can make pages auto-fit, or not.
What else I can do – well, it looks like sucky garbage in IE/win right now, because all the buttons have fat blue borders around them, but I’ll fix that. Other than that, just little spacing tweaks I think. I’m going to add in a subject listing – you could look at all the film-related trash I’ve written in one place, for example. That’s something that MT brings to the table.
Also, I need to allow anonymous comments, so you don’t have to enter your email – you’ll all end up getting spammed. Although bags, your pants.pants address doesn’t seem to work. That’s odd…
Looks the same in both IE 5.0 and Netscape 6.1 but the mouseovers for the top buttons are a little different. Not a major issue though.
In Netscape 4.72, it doesn’t look too great, but I suppose you know that, since there is a disclaimer.
K, any ideas on the best way to get rid of the blue mouseover with the images? It’s a result of the default CSS link style. I thought I had coded it to not display in the divs in question but I guess that didn’t work.
I think I have to specify a 0 border for img’s as well, that must be what’s causing the shitty borders in IE5/Win.
I will take a look at it tomorrow, and get back to you.
As I suspected, if you just add:
STYLE=”background-color:#FFFFFF;” to all the tags that you don’t want to have a background, you should be fine.
Two other things to consider:
1) border=’0′ is probably a good idea for the images, since there is a border on early versions of netscape.
2) Not sure how your programming is, but cookies for the guestbook would be a nice feature – so it remembers my name, email, and URL?
Sorry, shoulda previewed first! That’s “all the anchor <A> tags you don’t want to have a background”.
Thanks, k. The border trick worked, and when I have a chance I’ll add that style declaration to the image links.
Cookies: this will probably be included in the next MT release. I’ve seen some code I could adapt, so if I have a chance I’ll put it in place. (My programming is non-existent, but I can cut & place okay sometimes.)
What CMS do you have on your site? Is that home-grown stuff? Seems very nice.
Thanks. Ya, it’s just my own php concoction. The back end isn’t really all that fancy. One of these days I’ll get around to making something a little nicer. My CD entry backend is a little more complex.
Well, it’s more than I could do *sigh* You program for a living?
Yeah, web programming mostly. Lots of free time at work these days…
Okay, the a style worked beautifully. (IE5/Mac OSX, anyway). Thanks for the help, K.