upr00ted

Been working on the site again, seems like once I finally have it working the way I want, looking good, and pretty much bomber, I find something that needs changing or updating. This time it was my portfolio page. Basically every page on my site except the homepage doesn’t have my blog links that show up on the left on the homepage. This looked odd because it left a 200px gap on the left side of all the pages. My temporary solution is just to give the content area of the page a -200px margin. This works, but I don’t like the necessity of an inline style. What are your solutions for content on pages that don’t have all the navigation? Should I just break the style sheet down into parts and give the pages that don’t have the extra navigation their own style sheet? Or does it make more sense to find a different layout?

If you have visited here over the past few hours you probably noticed a few odd things popping up and moving around. I’ve been updating. I have changed over to Movable type. I like the interface and features much more than phpoxom, though the setup was actually much harder since I was just using php to curl the blog section in the previous method. In the longrun the features and flexibility afforded by movable type will be quite useful I think, and now people can leave feedback right on the page. Expect at least one more style soon as I continue to dink around with some CSS. I realize that none of these designs so far are extraordinary, but they will come.

I’ve made a couple of new styles for the site, nothing spectacular but I do like the blue motif. Links for the styles are now listed at the bottom of the menu. I’m thinking I might have to go the way of the Zen Garden and add in some extra html hooks if I want to explore the possibilities of css. I also looked into refer 2.1 (see below) and have come to the conclusion that I can’t really use it since I don’t have a MySQL database on this site. So sad. If anyone has a different way of managing referrers (posting them automatically) I’d be interested in hearing about it.
I’m also looking for a good blogger that allows replies, but has great filtering too since I’m not really in the market to enlarge my member.

Domain name has been set to www.UpR00ted.com, note zeros not o’s.
Simple explaination: I love root vegetables, I move quite often, there are obvious conotations of roots and trees and the like in what I do in my free time, mainly program and dink around on the web.
This site will eventually become a repository for all things CSS, Mac, etc. that I find/figure out.

Thanks to Ethan over at sidesh0w.com for solving my little “CSS” bug, actually pilot error, using padding to keep the main text flow from overlapping my menu instead of margins. It seems I effectively placed my menus under a nice glass ceiling that they just couldn’t get through. Now we can all enjoy the intended look.
I think I should also pay tribute to Dean Allen and put up a copy of his Refer 2.1 as that was how Ethan found me. I am truly amazed each day at the community that exists in cyberspace. Thanks Ethan. Now maybe I should invest some time finding a good blogger as it seems I might have something to say.

Don’t expect it any time soon, but I plan to add a style switcher ala ALA via some basic PHP. In the meantime, check out my last PHP project of a redesign of my Picture Album, now called Gallery.

After battling CSS bugs for almost a week as you can see I finally have a site re-design. I’m pretty happy with the end result, but as you can see here it isn’t quite what I wanted. It seems there is an odd bug (or perhaps pilot error) in some part of CSS or HTML that stops the links in my right side menu from being usable in any browser besides IE Win. I only have 6 installed so I don’t know if it also works in older versions, but every Mac browser seems to render it nicely, but uselessly.
If anyone has an idea on how to fix this problem, I would appreciate hearing about it.