And I thought my mom was lucky…
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A splash of style for NN4
I’ve been working on the site and how it looks in Netscape 4. I’ve been able to add back some style without making the browser crash.
Go me!
I’ve now finished Christmas shopping for three people, which is three people more than I’m normally done with at this time. Being your typical male and a computer geek, here’s my method for when shopping is done:
if (month = 12 && day >= 20)
shop();
else
procrastinate();
Also, I have an interview with BellSouth on Thursday for a potential job here in Birmingham. Wish me luck!
Oh, and there’s another insane thought up. I must have let my mind wander recently…
Keeping me awake at night
How do you throw away a garbage can?
Icons for IE
Okay, I found a shareware icon editor tonight and made the official pressing on… site icon! (They’re called favicons in Internet Explorer, but in Mozilla/Netscape 6, they’re not just for favorites/bookmarks). In IE, you won’t see the icon until you bookmark the site, and even then you’ll have to either reload the page. (Kinda silly, if you ask me, but oh well…) In Mozilla/NN6, you’ll see it right away.
Battle of the commercial animal stars
Just something that randomly popped into my head a long time ago…in a fight between the Energizer Bunny and the Taco Bell Chihuahua, who would win? Between the rabbit’s stamina and the dog’s craving for grade-D meat, it’d be a pretty tight matchup, if you ask me…
Oh, the insanity!
A new insane thought is now up.
Oh, and I also fixed the solitaire site, because it wasn’t initializing the game. It should run fine now.
Version 8.0!
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. 🙂
Just a quick observation
Birmingham is one of a very few cities (Seattle’s the only other one that I can think of) that looks better under gray skies.
Back from the game
Glad that we got the win, but man, that was some nasty weather. I think that it’s in the worst three games weather-wise that I’ve ever witnessed. First all-time was, and probably will always be, my sophomore year in high school when we played Central of Phenix City. It was about 25 degrees, and it rained the entire night. Hard. I didn’t have any rain protection other than my football uniform. I’m amazed that I didn’t get pneumonia. And to top it off, we lost the game 6-0 to the eventual state champs.
Still, at least one game for every team every year should be played in the rain. Not necessarily a cold rain, but a rain nonetheless. It’s football weather, baby!
Didn’t see any of my friends there at the game. I took a few looks at the student section, and never saw anyone stand out. Did anyone actually go?
To Sis: I know that this is probably not the case, but I swear that I saw Todd Whitcomb at this game. He passed right in front of me about a half-hour before the game started. I didn’t want to say anything in case it wasn’t him, but if it wasn’t, his twin was there.
So now we’re bowl-eligible. Seeing as I’ve never been to a bowl game, I told myself that if we did make it to a bowl, that I was going to do everything I could to find a ticket to it. I hope we go to Nashville. It’d be a relatively easy trip. Although if we went to the Tangerine Bowl, I could stay with Sis and Mike…