Welcome to version 8.0 of pressing on!

If you’ve been here before, you’ll think that not a lot has changed. Oh, but it has. It has. Here’s the nickel tour.

The theme-swapping function has been much-improved (inspired by this article, and modified to include the image swap as well). Now the page doesn’t reload every time you want to change styles. I’ve defaulted the style to Christmas for now; that’s why you see it here even though you may have picked another style earlier. If you change it again, it’ll remember the new one from now on. It still doesn’t work in Netscape 4, but I didn’t leave NN4 users out in the cold; more on that in a second.

I also went ahead and implemented the collapsing menus that I had worked on earlier. To expand/collapse the menus, click on the header of the sections (me, contact, etc.) This also doesn’t work in Netscape 4, but all the links are accessible in that browser.

Netscape 4 users, you’ll see that I didn’t completely abandon you style-wise in this version of the site. It’s still very bare-bones compared to what you’d see if you had an updated version of your browser, but it at least has a little color to it. As far as I have tested, I haven’t had the browser crash on me yet. But I can’t make guarantees. 🙂 I made your default theme a little Christmasy as well. I also provided a link at the top of the site for those who want to jump down to the links for the site’s features.

And I believe that the entire site should still validate as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS-2. Of course, I doubt that anyone but me cares about this, but it’s still a good thing overall.

This was a massive undertaking, and pretty much every page on the site was modified, with the exception of the UA Football Facts site and a couple of the tribute pages. I hope that you enjoy the new features. I’m off to bed…I’m a little tired. 🙂

Sigh.

As you surely well know by now, I’ve had a lot of difficulty in the past getting stuff to work in Netscape 4, bless its little heart.

I’ve wanted the site to look decent while moving it forward. I’ve added some relatively advanced CSS stuff (no tables involved in the layout), user-input style sheet and image choices, and I’d really like to add the collapsing menus. And in the meantime, Netscape 4 begs for attention by crashing every time I try to check how the site looks.

So no more.

The content will be there for you guys, but I’m afraid the site will look just about as plain as it can until you get off of the front page. Then it will look decent, but not as good as it could. It’s the only way I can have the page display at all in Netscape 4 consistently. To users of Netscape 6, Mozilla, and IE 5+, the site will look exactly the same.

I bet you never thought I’d get around to it. All two of you who check it, anyway. The LSU (bleh) and Mississippi State (woo-hoo!) editions of UA Football Facts are online now (albeit immediately in the archives), and a special Iron Bowl edition is now ready for all your useless statistical needs!

The week’s UA Football Facts are now up, and the first wave of information about school colors has been completed at my college football tradition site. It was a lot of research, but it was really interesting. I’m not sure what will be next on the list.

This weekend, I’m going home to a family reunion. Sis and Mike, I’ll tell them “Hi” for you.

The team colors page of the college football tradition site has been updated to include all the research that I did yesterday.

I’m going to be updating it pretty frequently until I’ve got all the information that I can find on I-A schools. There are actually some pretty interesting stories on why schools have the color combinations that they do. It’s been interesting, to say the least.

Also, my days and nights are badly mixed up again. How do I know? I got up an hour ago. 🙂

For a long time, I’ve wanted to do a full-blown college football tradition site. One that took all the stuff that I’ve done so far (fight songs, rivalries, kickoff chants) and added tons more information.

Basically, I want something that people who love college football tradition could get lost in for a few hours. That’s the goal.

Well, the time is starting now. I’m starting to put together a college football tradition site. It will incorporate the features I’ve developed so far, as well as adding new information on lots of other topics.

This is a massive undertaking, to say the very least. But it’s one that I’m really interested in working on.

Anyway, there’s a new feature there already, school colors. While all it does now is give the official colors of all the division I-A schools, in time it will have the stories behind how the colors were chosen.

Look for more there in time. And I’ve put a permanent link to the tradition site on my front page.

A new edition of UA Football Facts is online, highlighting (or is that lowlighting) the Ole Miss game and previewing tomorrow’s big game against Tennessee.

A very minor change to the front page…the somewhat space-wasting borders around menus have been replaced with colored, condensed headers.

Of course, this doesn’t work properly in Netscape 4. However, it does seem to avoid crashing the browser, so my Javascript detector is now no longer needed. Maybe I got lucky and this made AOL’s browser work again too.

There’s also a version of the front page with collapsing menus which I like the look of. The problem is that in Netscape 6 or Mozilla, switching to the “Flannel” or “Fall Foliage” themes occasionally results in the background image covering everything else. Oh well. I guess I’ll just file a bug and move on with life…

A new insane thought, anti-time.