A fresh squeeze of lime
You might notice some changes I've made around here. Most noticeably the colour scheme - I've impulsively switched from red to a fresh lime green. You might need to clear out your cache or reload to get the updated stylesheet and related images.
I've added my RSS feed buttons to my home page, and having said that, there's a new feed for my weblob. The protocol for my feed links is 'feed://' - should I change this to 'http://' instead?
I've really taken a liking to RSS since switching to Thunderbird, because I don't need to run a feed reader in addition to everything else.
I'm playing with the CSS3 opacity property in places - for example in the nav menu, and the blog pic image (camera icon) above - if you mouseover either they'll change from being semi-transparent to fully opaque. This property is supported in Mozilla 1.7+ and Firefox 0.9+, I'm not sure about other browsers.
The search form on my home page has moved higher up the page for more prominance, and now includes the option to search my links. I'm using a cookie with the search now to work around a problem with losing the POST variables when the page is automatically reloaded.
I'll try explain. My search forms submit to '/search'. To include the search term in the results page URL, I reload the result page if the term isn't already included in the path, to make it for example: '/search/design'. This means I lose the POST variable storing the type of search, ie. either 'blog' or 'links'. The cookie expires 5 minutes later. I'm open to suggestions for improvement.
I've also added a full calendar to my archive page. I still need to make the calendar on my blog page more dynamic.
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OMG I saw this screen shot of yr’s on flikr. no wonder you take a while with your message replies. With a contact list like yr’s one can just imagine how many people chat to you at any given time… LOL
umm, not too mad about the green, reminds me of MONOCHROME screens (can we try blue #24629E ?)
I thought green was the new blue tripeak… ;)
David: I use Eric Bodden’s PHP Highlighter function. No ob_start as far as I know. It took a little customizing but it does the job and is pretty flexible.
blah blah RSS feed buttons, RSS since switching to Thunderbird, blah blah CSS3 opacity property , BLAH BLAH I’ll try explain. My search forms submit to ‘/search’. To include the search term in the results page URL, I reload the result page if the term isn’t already included in the path, to make it for example: ‘/search/design’. This means I lose the POST variable storing the type of search, ie. either ‘blog’ or ‘links’. The cookie expires 5 minutes later. I’m open to suggestions for improvement.
what the….
Too much for you eh.
my brain just gave you the finger…
Back to the green hey? You’ve always had a thing with green though, thinking back to all your old school Void websites. I dig it though and think it’s a refreshing change. Will explore the rest later.
coda: so umm, according to warrenski green is not the new blue but really the ‘come back colour for you. TeamScene but without the white. :)
gillstrawberry : LMFAO!
gill: LOL
Looks cool….
Don’t you just love the fact that you can adjust 1 or 2 hex values, and the entire look & feel changes? CSS kicks serious ass if applied correctly :-D
About the feed, I haven’t ever come across anyone using feed:// as protocol, so it might be a good idea to stick with http:// – if only because you never know!
And, oh yeah, before I forget… Although it looks cool, opacity sometimes has a nasty tendency to slow movement and roll-overs down on less capable PCs.
Maybe I’m the only one annoyed by it though…?!
Change the feed:// to http:// as feed:// is invalid protocol.
06 January 2005
David04:58 pm
Huh, green eh? I’m not used to it yet. a little confusing all the greens but I guess in a few days I’m over that.
I really like your search, either you use that cookie or not, I like the highlighting of the search term the most. You do it with ob_start I suppose. You have to show me how exactly at some point.
feed:// protocoll works perfectly since I’m using Feeddemon which listens that protocoll.