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New Images
I’m sure that at least some of you have noticed by this point that recently I’ve been changing around the little “pagemark” images that spice up my site’s pages. Well, I was recently able to get my hands on a few new landscape images, and decided to change things up a little.
It’s always a good idea to keep things as new as you possibly can. Old material gets boring very quickly. Especially on the internet. So, even if it’s just a little graphic change, or a post about “what’s new”, it’s worth putting out there, to help keep people interested in your site and your content.
Contact Page Layout Change
I’ve had a couple comments (and agreed with them) that having the images at the top of the contact page the way I did, kind of took away from the rest of the content of the page. (And it did.) Having the four ‘pagemark’ images up at the top, and making the user scroll down to get at the actual page content, was a bad idea.
So, I’ve made the necessary changes (some CSS re-writing and minor semantic updates,) and, voila! You’ve got a new contact page layout. (Which I have to say, looks much better.)
Banner Update
With the recent [behind-the-scenes] upgrades to the website, I thought it was time to quickly go and streamline the site’s banner. I’ve since done this, taking the file size of the banner from nearly 300K (really slow to download) to 95K (much faster). So, for anyone out there who’s visited my site before and had to suffer from a really slow banner download speed, I apologize; it’s fixed now. :)
Happy surfing!
CSS and Printing
This is just a random comment, but I have to say that I rather love CSS and what it can do. I am currently in the process of tweaking things here and there so as to cut out the chaff, as it were, from being printed. There’s no need for anyone printing something off of my website to have to get my menus and extraneous images as well. If they’re printing something (that I don’t mind them printing) it’s a nice thing for them if I can save them some ink and paper.
As for the things that I don’t want them printing, such as Portfolio items, I can simply hide them away, or replace them with a ‘you can’t print this’ image, or even add a watermark overtop of the image to prevent copyright loss. CSS, indeed, is a grand thing.
CPL Redesigned
There, it’s done. I’ve made the updates to the Control Panel Login page. I’m thinking it’s perhaps a little heavy yet, but I’m going to leave it that way for a little while. I’m, as yet, undecided on what I should do to thin things out a little. My main point of concern is the images I’m using to the right of the username & password input fields. At present, they are the major attraction, and I’m not sure that I don’t want them to merely be an accent instead.
At any rate, until I can come up with a better solution, this is what I’ve got:
The interesting thing that I’ve added to this particular page is a dual-css setup for the positioning of the different elements that makup the username & password section of the page. Using a PHP script I found atthis php site , I am able to determine which type of browser (ie or non-ie) my user is using, and have PHP output the appropriate stylesheet include.
