More website stuff
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 2:29 am
Hello,
Firstly, I'd like to apologise to the visitors with 800x600 screens or smaller, as I've upped the page width to ~1000px. However, as about 98% of visitors now have a screen resolution of 1024x768 or greater, I thought it was a bit silly to keep the narrow page width any longer. If you've got a nice new browser like Opera, you squish it all back into view by changing the page zoom to 80% (all browsers should have that feature!).
Avatars - I've finally uploaded a few avatar sets to the forums. If you're into pop-culture you may well be disappointed though, as I removed all the boringly common ones (i.e. Neo/Trinity/Morpheus/Aragorn/etc), and what's left is pretty eclectic (hats, hello kitty, etc.). If you don't like the selection, you're free to upload your own images.
Validation - Everything except the forums and the wiki are now valid XHTML 1.0 (phpBB2 and DokuWiki don't validate, sadly). The upshot is that most of the site will load a bit faster, as your browser can parse XHTML documents more quickly than HTML (which is a sloppy, hard-to-parse standard). Of course, if you're using IE you won't notice a difference, as it handles XHTML as HTML (Grrr!).
Links - I've added a bunch of links to the 'useful links' page in the wiki (link below). Please feel free to add more if you can think of them. If you want to link to your own project, that can be done on the projects page.
Links: http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=links
Projects: http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=projects
RSS - I've updated the 'quick guide to RSS' page to cover how to read the RSS newsfeeds for L3DT (eg. news page, forums, etc) in your web browser, though not IE of course, which doesn't support RSS. The link is here:
http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tutorials:rss
Buttons - My shipment of glassy green buttons has arrived (see side-menu). They still look a bit wonky in IE (surprise surprise), but I'll be fixing all that in the next day or two. Also, the 'back to top' button doesn't float to the bottom of the page in some browsers (i.e. non-Firefox), but I've worked out a solution that I'll be applying shortly. After that, I think I'll leave the website alone for a little while and get back to 'real' programming.
Cheerio,
Aaron.
Firstly, I'd like to apologise to the visitors with 800x600 screens or smaller, as I've upped the page width to ~1000px. However, as about 98% of visitors now have a screen resolution of 1024x768 or greater, I thought it was a bit silly to keep the narrow page width any longer. If you've got a nice new browser like Opera, you squish it all back into view by changing the page zoom to 80% (all browsers should have that feature!).
Avatars - I've finally uploaded a few avatar sets to the forums. If you're into pop-culture you may well be disappointed though, as I removed all the boringly common ones (i.e. Neo/Trinity/Morpheus/Aragorn/etc), and what's left is pretty eclectic (hats, hello kitty, etc.). If you don't like the selection, you're free to upload your own images.
Validation - Everything except the forums and the wiki are now valid XHTML 1.0 (phpBB2 and DokuWiki don't validate, sadly). The upshot is that most of the site will load a bit faster, as your browser can parse XHTML documents more quickly than HTML (which is a sloppy, hard-to-parse standard). Of course, if you're using IE you won't notice a difference, as it handles XHTML as HTML (Grrr!).
Links - I've added a bunch of links to the 'useful links' page in the wiki (link below). Please feel free to add more if you can think of them. If you want to link to your own project, that can be done on the projects page.
Links: http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=links
Projects: http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=projects
RSS - I've updated the 'quick guide to RSS' page to cover how to read the RSS newsfeeds for L3DT (eg. news page, forums, etc) in your web browser, though not IE of course, which doesn't support RSS. The link is here:
http://www.bundysoft.com/wiki/doku.php?id=tutorials:rss
Buttons - My shipment of glassy green buttons has arrived (see side-menu). They still look a bit wonky in IE (surprise surprise), but I'll be fixing all that in the next day or two. Also, the 'back to top' button doesn't float to the bottom of the page in some browsers (i.e. non-Firefox), but I've worked out a solution that I'll be applying shortly. After that, I think I'll leave the website alone for a little while and get back to 'real' programming.
Cheerio,
Aaron.