Category: Site News

Content again? It’s been a while, but I threw up a couple pages of content. Made a nifty list of all the albums I’ve got on CD or otherwise for my music section (more will be there eventually), and put my links and portfolio pages back up. Once I get my resumé current again, that will be up as well. Enjoy.

If you’ve visited the site a few times, you may or may not notice some of the minor changes I’ve been periodically making. I’ve been working more behind the scenes on my individual archive template, I showed some of you to try to get some feedback, the rest of you will see it when it’s done. I also have some spiffy photos from my winter break in Arizona that will come with that update. If something just looks completely broken (besides the archive templates.. I know about those) let me know. If you don’t know how to get ahold of me, go away. 🙂

Took about a half hour, but I got this main page validating again, XHTML 1.0 Strict. It looks right in gecko and webcore browsers. I’ll find out on Monday what it looks like in MS Exploiter.

I’m kinda sorta looking for a new web host. Eryxma just isn’t quite working for me. Way back in 2002 when I signed up, several sites they host went down for a long period of time (because they were relocating servers or something)… fast forward to 2004 and their ENTIRE network has been down for multiple hours on at least 2 occasions… also in between these occurances my website was hacked into, and they made no apparent effort to track down the intruder or to patch my system. Needless to say, I’m less than pleased with them. Currently looking into Dreamhost, 1-and-1, and seeing if some friends of mine are going in on a rackspace server somewhere. Any suggestions, please gimme a shout!

Movable Type was showing signs of being broken, so I decided to reinstall it. This also means I get a good chance to re-do my templates, yay, the fun. (no sarcasm here of course). I’ve re-done and re-hashed this particular layout so many times it’s not even funny at this point.

In other news, my movable type engine also serves my old High School Ski Team’s Site, which I’m trying to get into an acceptable capacity this week. Lots of templating for me to be doing.

I don’t feel like attending the javascript class I’m in tomorrow, there’s something about hand written javascript on an overhead projector that doesn’t tickle my fancy. But in any case I do have work tomorrow, so it’s bed time for me. G’night folks.

Before I forget the reason I was posting here… I’m interested in getting a one of those newfangled USB Thumbdrives to do my web design stuff on. If anyone knows of a way of possibly getting apache or some sort of way of parsing PHP on an external drive such as this, lemme know!

I went to “Good Times” bar again last Sunday to watch the Vikes kill the Lions, bringing the Vikings’ record to 3-0 now! Dante Culpepper (Vikings QB) left the game in the middle because of a bruised back.. I read the following about it in the paper today:

“Do I look hurt?” Culpepper asked as he limped away from Minnesota’s locker room. “I thought I looked cool, like Fred Sanford.”

In unrelated and more self-important news.. I’ve been working really hard the last few days to completely rewrite my site again, this time using structural XHTML, and slightly flashier CSS (albiet with the same layout). The new iteration of my site should be fully accessable to visual browsers, as well as text browsers and screen readers. I don’t expect many blind visitors to my site, but if I become blind tomorrow, I’ll still be able to enjoy my website. Anyways… you can see the results thus far here, and please (someone, anyone) let me know what you think!!

Relating to this last point, and my previous entry.. I bougt yet another book. This time it’s a CSS reference book.. read more to find out about it (and a brief review of the Zeldman’s book).

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