I am busy getting the new Firefox installed. I have been using the preview viewer for the past two months and I have been happy with it. We’ll see what this version does. And, I need to see what these extensions can do. There’s one for expanding images for viewing. That sounds useful.
The Firefox Site is very busy at the moment. I think I will come back later.
Evidently requesting registration doesn’t stop the spammers. I will need to check out Elaine’s plug-in she found.
Later:
I found another option in the moderation control that I am trying. If you post a comment, don’t put a lot of hyperlinks in the comments.
I ran across a bunch of pictures I scanned in 5 years ago, of our trip to Australia. Originally, I had created a really nice web site where I had thumbnails of each image next to a comment, in a table, and the whole site told a story of our trip. Unfortunately, the site was lost many years ago and I couldn’t find the local copies of the web pages, so it went away. I just downloaded the images into some album maker and put them out for people’s perusal.
I find that I am not happy with the Linux HTML tools I have at hand. Admittedly, it took several weeks to put together the old web site, but it had cascading styles and continuity. I was able to put this one together in several hours but it doesn’t have the look or feel I want it to have. I can’t imagine a web page builder that doesn’t allow you to insert a background color! It’s probably there, just not documented.
Anyway, the pictures are there to look at. We saw some beautiful and interesting sights in Australia, and we caught a few on film. The link should be on the side menu bar.
I experimented a little and noticed some interesting changes to the eg page when I change the browser font size (control + or control-). Try it and let me know what it does to your display.
Well, this is from my home PC and I still haven’t been able to get the picture on the menu to be centered L<>R , 25 pixels from the top, though that’s where it is on the other browsers I’ve looked at.
REMEMBER CASE SENSITIVITY!
I had added my picture to the top of the menu bar but it wouldn’t display. And it worked on my Windows PC when I set it up. But the Word Press server is on a Linux box and Unix is case sensitive. So, the capitalized PNG in my picture file is not the same as the small png in my code. I think it is fixed now.
Windows is oblivious to case and is a dangerous tool to edit with unless you are going to put the results on a Windows Server.
If everything is looking right, the ‘rap’ (where this text is) should be in TAN, the header area (where the logo is) should be GREEN, the menu to the left should be a PALE YELLLOW and the body background should be a repeated green Celtic Knot motif. Please let me know if you see something different.
Next, I shall try to create a menu header module that will contain my picture and some text commentary.
I have modified the Cascading Style Sheets to rearrange and recolor exempli gratia. It was interesting, for a while, trying to figure out what would happen if I tweaked THIS or THAT. But in the long run, I would rather have a CSS editor that shows you the changes as you go rather than saving and refreshing.
I thought I had a problem getting the .php index file updated to publish the new look so I asked Elaine to look at it and she said she would tomorrow, but I figured it out on my own. I hope she doesn’t try to fix it in the morning. (I don’t think she cares for the new color scheme)
Let me know how it works with your browser.
I heard on NPR this morning that Starbucks is implementing Media Bars. What an idea! Go in and select a bunch of songs online and burn a CD. It is such a natural for a place that has broadband Internet connections already in place. It takes 4 minutes or so to burn a CD. I imagine it would take longer to select the songs to burn. And you can listen to the songs before buying them.
I was just thinking that if you wanted to make a travelling music CD it would be so easy. I hope that they are using .WAV files and not mp3 or lower compression files. Music videos can be next.
Of course it is Starbucks, which means it stinks to high heaven of COFFEE. I have accidently wandered into one or two, following Elaine around, and quickly leave before I become physically ill from the malodorous smell. But, it is still a wonderful idea.
Well, Elaine got things configured in my template and I can now make comments as I write a post
coffee2code.com � Plugin: Get Custom Field Values
And Here’s the fix. Looks like I will need to get Elaine to add the plugin to the right directory.