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Amidst the madness of being inside all day, drinking tea, and tidying up my collection of pens, I’ve found time to make a few small changes on the site.
You’ll see that I’ve added in extra content to the right hand column. I now have a list of blogmarks (links that don’t warrant a full posting here but which are interesting none the less) and a blogroll (a list of sites I read on a regular basis).
I’ve wanted to add those features in for a while now, but didn’t want to compromise the ‘clean look’ this site has.
In the end, (and after an awful lot of analyses of my own browsing habits) I decided that these new elements could happily reside behind a tabbed interface. My thinking was that when you want them, you want them, and when you don’t, you don’t need to see them at all.
Mark Wubben very kindly stepped in to rescue my feeble efforts at coding the tabs in Javascript, producing a script that seems to work perfectly in all my target browsers.
Those people without Javascript-support don’t miss out on content — they get all three blocks of content (the nav, the blogmarks, and the blogroll) in one, traditional, straight column.
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To save you wasting a mouse-click, I’ve set things up so a little asterisk appears in the blogmarks tab when new content has been posted.
A cookie is set whenever you click the b-marks tab, and the time and date of this is compared to the time and date of the latest blogmark. If the blogmark date is newer than your cookie date, you get the little *.
You might also notice that blogmarks posted since your last visited have a different colour list-dot. (If this is too subtle, can you let me know please?)
I'm looking to add the ‘*’ notification into the blogroll tab as well.
At the suggestion of Mark Wubben (a handy man to have around, so it would seem), I’ve altered the colour of the panorama border (and added in a little drop shadow) to take into account the time of day. At night we now have a subdued colour bar, and during the day a brighter, bluer version.
The delight that is IE gets fairly sparse service on this site, as I tend to expend my efforts on the Mozilla/Firebird front.
However, Holly Marie was kind enough to step in and offer up a few hacks that should mean things look a little prettier here in that browser. Specifically floating images and the list item numbers for comments have been fixed.
If all goes to plan I should be unveiling some other bits and bobs soon, making the site easier to search, and letting all the kind commentors have easy and flexible access to their contributions.
I’ll let you know how it goes…
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Pier Top Linen View Navy Women's Sperry Sider The image displayed above is a 1600 pixel-wide panoramic view from the top of my parents’ house in Dorset, England. The system uses an XML weather feed from their local airbase to provide an up-to-the-minute graphical representation of the current weather, moon, and daylight conditions at their house. It's pretty cool, really.
You can read more about the panorama, and how it was created, in the Colophon; or you can select an option from below and view detailed weather information for Dorset, or for San Francisco (where I currently live).