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. 🙂