OK, clearly haven't done anything in the last couple of months on this (which I feel quite bad about). Have been sucked into the animated world of Flash. Its lots of fun actually, but really time consuming. Basic actionscript ok. Drawing everything in Flash - challenging.
Will ge back to this soon, I swear...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Reset
OK!
Survived (and kicked ass!) last semester, had a great month break where I rediscovered my talent for vegetating in front of the TV and drinking. Now onto the next semester.
I'm not actually doing any coding subjects this term - lots of flash and a bit of techno-philospophy, but I am going to finish off and launch the Personal Trainer website. Plus I'd like to build my nephew a website so he can stay in touch with the family in Sydney.
I enjoyed logging my coding thoughts in this blog so much during DMT, I've decided to keep going with it. Plus its a handy receptacle of all of the info I find I need along the way - I find my own information receptacle (my brain) is less reliable these days. I'm blaming my conflicting talent for drinking for that one...
So...a couple of quick notes, then I'll leave production until Sunday (for old times sake...)
In the last month:
That's enough for now - have to start thinking about animation ideas for class tonight. Oh the pressure of choosing your own term project! Sometimes I get bogged down by too may options...
Survived (and kicked ass!) last semester, had a great month break where I rediscovered my talent for vegetating in front of the TV and drinking. Now onto the next semester.
I'm not actually doing any coding subjects this term - lots of flash and a bit of techno-philospophy, but I am going to finish off and launch the Personal Trainer website. Plus I'd like to build my nephew a website so he can stay in touch with the family in Sydney.
I enjoyed logging my coding thoughts in this blog so much during DMT, I've decided to keep going with it. Plus its a handy receptacle of all of the info I find I need along the way - I find my own information receptacle (my brain) is less reliable these days. I'm blaming my conflicting talent for drinking for that one...
So...a couple of quick notes, then I'll leave production until Sunday (for old times sake...)
In the last month:
- the free web hosts have been great. I'm really happy with the service and have had no troubles once i got it up and running. I would go with them again, for sure...
- I received actual content from the client. I freaked out because it looked like she wanted to turn my lovely site into a shouty ad. Had to remind her of her target market. Have agreed on a compromise. Will spend approx 10 hours uploading content, tweaking the pages and creating a new testimonial page (this is all gratis, so I had to actually draw up a scope!) Plan to do that before the end of August as after that, with uni demands, my time will be at a premium
- The client has registered the domain name www.launchintofitness.com. Through an american site. Not sure why. Local help desk support may be useful one day...oh well, lets deal with that if/when we need to...
That's enough for now - have to start thinking about animation ideas for class tonight. Oh the pressure of choosing your own term project! Sometimes I get bogged down by too may options...
Monday, June 2, 2008
I think I might cry
My lovely wonderful website that has been working magically is currently under review by the web hosts to check for malicious content. the error page that appears says it will only take 2 - 4 hrs, but its been like that all day. PLEASE let that be sorted by tomorrow...freaking free web hosting...
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Just can't stop...
Ok - i've solved the IE issue!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yayayayayayayayayay!
The separate css file did the trick. Plus I went and stuck a black border around all of my divs to work out exactly what the hell was going on. ie was adding the padding twice or something and completely throwing all divs out of place. Apparently this works differently on ie versions earlier than 7. I am testing my site on version 7 and all looks good there. I applied the Tanteck hack in the hope that it will also solve earlier ie version issues. won't know for sure until i find a machine with an earlier version. Will do for now though...
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/ie7-dehacker.html
In fact, it looks better re alignment on the ie version now, so I'm going to go back and stick black borders on everything in the normal css file and see what it looks like. Should probably wait until I get home though so I can test on Safari at the same time.
This all being said, the site actually looks fine as it is right now in all the browsers I wanted it to work in. Perhaps I should just leave it and work on my actual assignment instead...that woudl make sense! I wonder if you ever feel like something like a site is ever 'finished'...
The separate css file did the trick. Plus I went and stuck a black border around all of my divs to work out exactly what the hell was going on. ie was adding the padding twice or something and completely throwing all divs out of place. Apparently this works differently on ie versions earlier than 7. I am testing my site on version 7 and all looks good there. I applied the Tanteck hack in the hope that it will also solve earlier ie version issues. won't know for sure until i find a machine with an earlier version. Will do for now though...
http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/ie7-dehacker.html
In fact, it looks better re alignment on the ie version now, so I'm going to go back and stick black borders on everything in the normal css file and see what it looks like. Should probably wait until I get home though so I can test on Safari at the same time.
This all being said, the site actually looks fine as it is right now in all the browsers I wanted it to work in. Perhaps I should just leave it and work on my actual assignment instead...that woudl make sense! I wonder if you ever feel like something like a site is ever 'finished'...
just taking notes...
Sites that have helped today:
http://bonrouge.com/br.php?page=faq#haslayout
which sent me to
http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html
In theory, my problem lies with the hasLayout issue. I tried a couple of their hacks, but it wasn't working for me. They did prompt me to thinking maybe I should just add in a separate style sheet for IE. Much cleaner solution...
The other good thing about this site was it helped me track down the Holly hack http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=1&cid=C37E0
which had disappeared from a couple of the other places i tried to track it down. I think the creators have written a book and want you to buy that instead...
It also helped me track down http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/ie7-dehacker.html
which I'm sure is the page that Rustum had put forward with some solutions.
Better read that before just diving in and mucking around with new css files...
http://bonrouge.com/br.php?page=faq#haslayout
which sent me to
http://www.satzansatz.de/cssd/onhavinglayout.html
In theory, my problem lies with the hasLayout issue. I tried a couple of their hacks, but it wasn't working for me. They did prompt me to thinking maybe I should just add in a separate style sheet for IE. Much cleaner solution...
The other good thing about this site was it helped me track down the Holly hack http://www.communitymx.com/content/article.cfm?page=1&cid=C37E0
which had disappeared from a couple of the other places i tried to track it down. I think the creators have written a book and want you to buy that instead...
It also helped me track down http://www.positioniseverything.net/articles/ie7-dehacker.html
which I'm sure is the page that Rustum had put forward with some solutions.
Better read that before just diving in and mucking around with new css files...
Ironing out the last few bits and bobs
OK, I've sorted the form re wording of pop up messages, formatted the text for the warning messages and sorted out the container sizes for the two side bars so everything now fits in without mucking up the rest of the page format.
I've checked the XHTML and CSS validity of all of the pages (and stuck my little sticker thing at the bottom of the pages). All good there.
Last thing off the bits and bobs list (and the biggest scariest one) is sorting out the IE issues. One of the things IE was doing (creative little beast) was sticking an outline around all of my image links. Got rid of that with some simple CSS (thanks to this handy site http://bonrouge.com/~faq)
Now I just have to work out how to sort out the way it stuffs around the text positioning on the page. I know its got something to do with the way its popping out the div sizes or margins or something. I noticed Rustum had posted a link on someone else's blog with what i think was the solution to this problem. Unfortunately I can't get into the dmt blog list site, the link's down or something. Time to trawl the brains trust i.e. google
I've checked the XHTML and CSS validity of all of the pages (and stuck my little sticker thing at the bottom of the pages). All good there.
Last thing off the bits and bobs list (and the biggest scariest one) is sorting out the IE issues. One of the things IE was doing (creative little beast) was sticking an outline around all of my image links. Got rid of that with some simple CSS (thanks to this handy site http://bonrouge.com/~faq)
Now I just have to work out how to sort out the way it stuffs around the text positioning on the page. I know its got something to do with the way its popping out the div sizes or margins or something. I noticed Rustum had posted a link on someone else's blog with what i think was the solution to this problem. Unfortunately I can't get into the dmt blog list site, the link's down or something. Time to trawl the brains trust i.e. google
Friday, May 30, 2008
The problem with free webhosting and clients
OK. PHP form magically started working again. This is both good and extremely mysterious...
I swear I haven't touch the code since yesterday (when it was working except wasn't sending emails). Yesterday I even tried it with the safe and tested code I was using the other day and it wasn't sending emails. Today - emails.
The reason it is mysterious: I sent off a message to the free site help desk ('My php form suddenly stopped working. I haven't changed the code. Is there a problem with your server?') and I actually got a reply this time! This is what they sent:
Hello,
No, we did not changed any server settings so the problem must be on your side.
Thank you,
www.000webhost.com
And - lo! By magic, the world is fine again. Perhaps my planets weren't in correct alignment. Mercury is in retrograde, and that's known to cause random electronic hiccups...
Anyway, client wants to meet to discuss the content in her site. ie what she should have on there. I should have just said 'no, I'm freaking busy at the moment, no time to sleep, little capacity to care re your site content' but I'm nice. Plus I am making her meet me at a coffee shop with my favourite coffee (Campos coffee. Its a lovely drop, even the most novice of barista usually manages to make a lovely cup of coffee out of it. Unless the coffee's been a bit over roasted. It did happen once. Toby's Estate is a close second. Can be touch and go - the better the barista, the better the coffee with that one. And it can get lovely. They have their 'warehouse' outlet cafe on City Rd, just off Broadway. You can get an awesome coffee there. Its not cheap, though.) But I digress....
I swear I haven't touch the code since yesterday (when it was working except wasn't sending emails). Yesterday I even tried it with the safe and tested code I was using the other day and it wasn't sending emails. Today - emails.
The reason it is mysterious: I sent off a message to the free site help desk ('My php form suddenly stopped working. I haven't changed the code. Is there a problem with your server?') and I actually got a reply this time! This is what they sent:
Hello,
No, we did not changed any server settings so the problem must be on your side.
Thank you,
www.000webhost.com
And - lo! By magic, the world is fine again. Perhaps my planets weren't in correct alignment. Mercury is in retrograde, and that's known to cause random electronic hiccups...
Anyway, client wants to meet to discuss the content in her site. ie what she should have on there. I should have just said 'no, I'm freaking busy at the moment, no time to sleep, little capacity to care re your site content' but I'm nice. Plus I am making her meet me at a coffee shop with my favourite coffee (Campos coffee. Its a lovely drop, even the most novice of barista usually manages to make a lovely cup of coffee out of it. Unless the coffee's been a bit over roasted. It did happen once. Toby's Estate is a close second. Can be touch and go - the better the barista, the better the coffee with that one. And it can get lovely. They have their 'warehouse' outlet cafe on City Rd, just off Broadway. You can get an awesome coffee there. Its not cheap, though.) But I digress....
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