We are up to 3.1!! And it’s so fast… (Yes I am on a Mac, so my results may be better) Get yours!

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daniel · mid-afternoon · 1 comment · ping it

Today work was very quiet and peaceful. Nobody bothered me, no one paged me. I was enjoying it actually, until I realized that no one was speaking to me. Bummer. I guess word of the donut incident has spread! Heh. I am the donut outcast! But it was okay, I used my social downtime to get a lot of work done.

Speaking of work, I have been working on this blog since I got home. More tweaking, adjusting, and adding pages to port this design into my whole site. I cannot believe how many pages I have. I cannot believe how many templates I am now using. OMG. Anyhoo, I am nearly satisfied. I shouldn’t bore everyone with the details. Read on if you are interested in my geekiness.

First, I fixed the “CSS” issue on the individual entry page. It wasn’t CSS afterall, but an extra ‘div’ tag. Ooopsie! I am so glad that’s resolved. But now do I go back to inline comments? Keep the pop-up? What?

Now I have a few things on my list. I am thinking of doing a main link list page, since we only show 50 at random in the sidebar. I miss the full list… My new tag cloud page isn’t showing the change of word size per post count like it should. I need to fix that. I also wish the content area was a skosh wider. As it is it doesn’t hold a standard You Tube player. That really bums me out. It would be ideal to have that area resize dynamically as you resize your browser window, but that may be impossible with this design. I was playing with the CSS and can adjust the size of some areas like the entry box, background, and frame (header image) but the source images are a fixed size. I think that even if I totally knew what I was doing, adjusting the CSS won’t do what I want it to. Let me know if you are a CSS guru that thinks differently, cause I’d kill for that extra skosh! 

tagged: work blog design site browser donut outcast tweaking   intense

daniel · the wee hours · 1 comment · ping it

Hey Windows people! I need your help. It seems there is a problem with how dp.com displays on certain browsers. A concerned dp.com member sent in a screen capture of what she sees on her IE browser. Take a look at this! Scary!! At first I thought it was an Internet Explorer thing, so I fired up my Mac version of IE, which is totally outdated BTW… Here’s what I saw. Nice! I also took a peek with Firefox, Camino, and my everyday Safari. All looked good.

Weird, right? Now I only have access to a Mac. I need another opinion! So tell me, what do YOU see? Is it like example number one *shudder*, or more like example number two? I am having an awful time trouble shooting things I cannot see, yanno?

UPDATE: Apparenly it’s something with with IE 6. I had some special CSS for IE 6 that I have now removed… any difference? Anyone?

UPDATE: Okay kids. Yoshi found the cause! (Thanks Yoshi!)

tagged: windows browser ie screen cap   happy

daniel · early evening · 9 comments · ping it