Gahhh. On the heels of my anime dilemma comes the browser dilemma which probably faces every web developer or blog customizer: Backwards compatibility or not?… Now that I’ve received enough unique hits per day to start considering it, what do you do when your preferred browsers for development (in this case, both IE 7 and FF 2) are used by 40-50% of the visitors, but older versions (IE 6) are used by another 40-50%? Like I said, gahhh!… Similarly, looking at this Kiddy Grade photo taken from my first Canon photoshoot back in November 2006, and knowing what techniques I know now after more than a dozen photoshoots, I could improve or redesign this photoshoot as well, couldn’t I? Or perhaps not. Why not leave earlier versions in the past? Well, because user applications are a bit different from images. And because I’m a nice guy, lol. So tonight, I decided to tweak my blog and website to be “a bit friendlier” and “less broken” in IE 6, while still being viewed best in IE 7 and FF 2. Good enough? I hope so! I’ve spent enough friggin’ time on this!!!
Category Archives: Computers
Blog 065 > Tutoring Vanessa = Chowking!
Definitely not your typical Mother’s Day Sunday! At a very-early 8am in the morning, Vanessa and Darrell visited my house, so I could help tutor Vanessa in HTML and Photoshop for her Web Programming class. Meanwhile, with his late nightclub job, Darrell decided to crash on my couch, lol. The original plan was 7am, but they were running late, and even then, a few hours wasn’t enough.
Fighting her allergies and our insurmountable hunger as I guided her on the details of table coding, hex coloring, image editing, inline framing, hyperlinking, and general layout according to her basic but elegant design, Vanessa didn’t finish her website project until 1pm! Five hours! But on the plus side, she tells me it saves her five weeks! Take a look at her website design in the following screenshots…
Blog 059 > Enter the Construct!
Whoa! After more than 3 years (sparked by Trialia’s inquiry), the dead Constructfic.org has been resurrected as ConstructFic.com, home of the best Matrix fanfics on the net! While it’s still in a state of reconstruction (maybe 25% so far), rest assured, The Construct will be fully online as soon as the Real World allows. Hopefully, in a matter of weeks. Enjoy!
Blog 051 > Spirit of the Matrix!
Pretty uneventful day, except for one thing: The Matrix. Some 3-4 years since the height of the Matrix hype, a fellow fan of ConstructFic.org and member of the Hardline message-board community popped out of the blue on my LJ: Trialia. She wondered whether I’d ever complete Construct 2.0, the half-finished resurrection of the defunct ConstructFic.org from 3 years ago. Well, I only lost interest because everyone else seemed to, but if she and others are interested, why not?
Blog 049 > End of the Blox
Well, folks, after only a month, I’ve decided to end my “xJAYMANx_weblox” blog (at Blogger.com). My experiments over the past week helped me decide to stick with just two blogs: (1) my heavily-customized (and soon website-integrated) “xJAYMANx_toybox” for public posts on anime, web design, other hobby-related activities, as well as life in general, and (2) my long-time “xJAYMANx” LJ for duplicated “toybox” posts, plus more friends-only posts. That’s about it! Blogger lived out its experimental purpose. Maybe something else will come along, but for now, these two primary blogs should serve me well.
Blog 048 > Toybox 2.0
Guess what? Remember my last post? Well, I did it, I applied the new table-less template design to my “Toybox” anime/remix blog. It was a b*tch to use optical illusions to “fix” the columns and backgrounds, but looks pretty sweet. Here’s the new “Toybox” look. (Like before, looks best in Firefox or IE7.)
Next steps: (1) Add blog name/image to (randomizing?) header. Fix fonts. (2) Finish up “xJAYMANx” website. Convert HTML to PHP. (3) Figure out how I want to organize my old content. Transfer the content.
Blog 047 > Faster & More Flexible
Faster & More Flexible [Wednesday, April 4, 2007] Cool! You know how I was going to PHP-reconstruct my website with the SAME design? Well, maybe NOT the same, lol. Last night, I started tinkering with a new template: 1000px wide, triple column, WITHOUT tables! Yup, no rigid table tags, but faster more-flexible CSS (stylesheet) “div” tags instead. Here’s the new test page. (Looks best in Firefox or IE7.)
Blog 046 > Backwards & Forwards
Backwards & Forwards [Saturday, March 31, 2007] Guess what? For the first time in years, I’ve thrown a bunch of 80s-90s CDs (Alice In Chains, Tori Amos’ Little Earthquakes, Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk, Def Leppard, Erasure, Garbage, Guns N Roses, Heart) into my ancient SONY 100-CD changer, and pumped up the volume on my stereo. Is it nostalgia for my rosier college days? A return to my 20s? Haha, who knows, but I just felt like it, lol. :)))
post 382 ~ bling-blingo!
post 382 ~ bling-blingo!
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post 371 ~ final centerpiece in place!
newest desk configuration |
DELL Inspiron 6000 + 2007WFP |
HP Pavilion vf17 + 2007WFP |
closeup of 2007WFP |
overlit closeup of 2007WFP |
inverted closeup of 2007WFP |
post 371 ~ final centerpiece in place!
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post 369 ~ new hardware!
“nao” from the “mabinogi” game |
another view of “nao” |
another view of “nao” |
post 369 ~ new hardware!
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post 368 ~ which monitor?
2007WFP |
post 368 ~ which monitor?… since the mortgage pay-off also overpaid my DELL account by $300, i now have some money to get a DELL product… i’m leaning towards one of the following monitors… but which?
note that either one will be the secondary monitor (extended desktop) to my primary DELL 15-inch laptop (1280 x 800)… all other features are pretty much identical… i’m leaning towards the WIDE version, but in terms of desktop space, i’d be losing about 2 inches height, most noticeably in full 1280 x 1024 wallpapers… so while DVD, AVI, and other movies would look great, i’d lose work area for apps like photoshop or ms word… any recommendations? |
post 333 ~ MySpace…
post 333 ~ yup, updated my MySpace page… ;) |
post 323 ~ basking in the glow…
post 323 ~ ah, basking in the glow… 15.4″|1.7GHz|1GB|80MB… now it’s gonna take a few days to install everything and tweak it to how i like it, hehehe :))))… click larger |
post 320 ~ cruzin’, crusadin’, and screechin’…
post 320 ~ nice to start 2006 with former colleagues… emails from a friend from college (dawn), from an old previous job (nancy), and from a recent previous job (vanessa)…
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post 319 ~ finally!
post 319 ~ thanx everyone for your best wishes regarding my gran’ma and myself… i appreciate it… and now for some news…
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post 314 ~ new website banners…
post 314 ~ damn, finished both “battlestar galactica” s1 dvd1 and “saikano” final dvd… wow, amazing end-of-the-world-type dramas!… both FIVE STARS! :)))
… whew, finally updating my own website for 2006… as well as anouck’s site… not only that, here are the new banners! :))) |
please post questions here… thank you.
please post questions here… thank you. |