Ongoing Changes
posted on february 11, 2004, tag: site
As you've no doubt noticed, I've made changes to this website over the past two days. It started with a few simple things and has now bloomed into at least 100 subtle differences and several major changes including the new horizontal main navigation and the removal of date headlines throughout the site.
I'm not done yet, so consider this a work in progress. I'll continue tweaking until I'm good and done and then I'll post a comprehensive list of changes for the curious. In the mean time, let me take a moment to thank Daniel, Phil and Shawn for the help the past few days as I continuously complained about CSS and asked "How does that look?" hundreds of times. Daniel gets double credit for specifically telling me not to use this masthead that I created the other night after I had completely lost my mind, and Shawn gets half-credit for telling me to go with it.
A few things might be screwy from time to time until tomorrow.
Comments
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David Collantes on 02/12/2004:
This site looks very nice, even under IE6. How did you do the "Posted 9 hours, 12minutes ago" and so on (for past dates)? I would love to get my hands on and use that snippet...
Chris J. Davis on 02/12/2004:
Can I shamelessly steal the form of it then? Cause I love it.
Garrett on 02/12/2004:
David—I'll write a tutorial on how to do that as soon as I'm done with the tweaking.
Chris—I don't know if you were joking or not, but to be honest—no, you cannot shamelessly steal the form of it. Part of the reason I've been switching things around lately is due to the fact that several people have "shamelessly stolen" quite a bit of my design and I got tired of seeing my site other places.
I know you probably weren't looking for such a serious answer, but it can be quite frustrating when you put a lot of hard work into something just to have it copied by someone else.
Chris J. Davis on 02/12/2004:
No problem Garret. I can empathize with you on that note. I hope that what I am doing over at my site won't upset you, but if it does let me know. I had an idea after following the link to your unused masthead, and have a placeholder page up that is using some of it.
I don't think that it really "steals" any of your design work; but I what I construe as theft and what another does is always a learning experience. Like I said though if you have any problems let me know.
Mark Nichols on 02/12/2004:
Using Safari 1.2 on Panther (10.3.2) the initial mouse pass over your logo in the masthead briefly exposes the square outline of that logo's border. Once the mouse has passed over the image and both states have been loaded, subsequent passes work smoothly without any visible artifacts.
I'm not sure if this an undocumented feature (IE bug) in Safari, or an issue with your mouseover mechanism. No one else had commented on it so I thought I'd pass it on. (Maybe it's an issue with my cache locally or something.)
Garrett on 02/12/2004:
Yes, Mark, it is in fact a bug in Safari 1.2. See this for more details: Regressions from 1.1.