All blog posts for October 2005

Site fixes for better Internet Explorer compatibility

I ended up fixing the quirkiness with Carolen's suggestions and investigations into PNG issues. It seems Internet Explorer chokes if you don't specify a color under the CSS shorthand property "background":

background: url(IMAGEFILE) <color> <repeat> <position>;

After adding those in, and then tweaking the code a little bit so that the masthead was in a more manageable div area, my front page's backgrounds display quite well in Internet Explorer 6. I'm hoping Internet Explorer 7 will be easier to work with. read more→

Quirky Internet Explorer rendering

I have to test out my website quickly on Internet Explorer for Windows on campus machines (since I use a Mac). This is what my page is supposed to look like:

my page has all of its images completely loaded, and the CSS renders properly

But under IE, a lot of things go missing:

My page under Internet Explorer does not have its backgrounds fully loaded, so certain parts of the page are missing.

My head is gone!

I've also noticed some really weird mouse-hover behavior with Internet Explorer 6. I'll have to research this some more. read more→

Poking holes in the server log

I'm still working and working on molding this site into something that's content-rich, and something that's worth visiting. The front page is sorely lacking — it doesn't even match the rest of the website's themes — but I have a good idea of what to create. To the top, I'll put an introduction to myself and what the website is about. To the left, I'll place a single highlighted feature post, and the most recently-updated posts (whether they be blog or publication or image). To the right, I'll put randomly-selected "selections" from the portfolio, and the portfolio index itself. Still in Photoshop mock-up stage; I'll need to code in the PHP. read more→

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