ximeria | General Update

Hello everyone, and well, um... sorry I haven't been around to spam LJ for the past week or so. So why have I been AWOL? Two words: real life *g*
It seems I've gotten up in the morning, gone to work, made appointments with friends/family in the evening, come home, gone to bed and started over in the morning. *cries* I miss my online time!

So, right, I have to line up what has to be done today, got so much overdue stuff to go through.

To-do list of the day:

~~Take care of a website for friends who actually run a company via it, so yeah, so overdue I feel bad about it~~

~~Get the back-log of email out of the way~~

~~Get the back-log of lj comments out of the way~~

Do the corrections that riverfox so kindly sent me earlier in the week

Take care of some work related stuff on the work website

Update Nicci's website

~~Fix the drawer for my clothes since it's decided to pop the front off...~~

Maybe write a bit on something later

Apart from that I have a Skype appointment tonight with

nicci_mac which will be payment for doing as much as possible on the above list LOL -- so if you're expecting some email or some such from me, fret not. I haven't forgotten, I'm just so far behind that it's not funny at all.

*puts Eddie Izzard on in the background to serve as familiar fun and opens html editor*

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I've spent the last week recoding/updating my fanfic site with a new design. This requires recoding every single page. *sighs* I'm almost finished though and soon, I'll be annoying people by having a "redirecting you to new address" providing I can find the code that does that. Otherwise, they'll get a blank page and a link that says, "Update you links." What bugs me is that I found a beautiful parchment design and I can't really use the damn thing. *g* I'll figure out a use for it though. One way or another. Now I have to start on the redesign for the graphics section of my website. *thud* I wanted to upload the episode pages I used to have on my site(took them down when I realized they were riddled with spelling/formatting bullet holes *g*) but that just means a *lot* more work. Oy. Shoot me for having my own site. ;)

I'd like your opinion on something. A few weeks back, I had a person email me with feedback for Intervals 55. They also suggested that at the bottom of every single Intervals chapter, I should have a "next" link so they(a fast reader) wouldn't have to hit the backspace, return to the Intervals index, and waste *all the time* it takes to hit one button and click the mouse. *rolls eyes* Out of stubbornness or forgetfulness or both, I forgot to take their suggestion under consideration. So, the question is: should I. It's just one person, but where there's one, there's usually another with the same lazy desire to be pandered to--which is another reason why I don't want to do it. Another is that this addition would be time consuming. Lastly, it would disrupt my design flow putting a text link in the body-content of the page where there are no links. The only links on the page are contained in the footer(and I don't know how to alter the design--my css knowledge is intermediate). Have any input?

Hey Joy,

Sorry it's taken me ages getting back to you - um let's see.

I normally code longer series at the bottom of the page because I prefer having that myself when I'm reading. It's not so much a problem that I have a slow connection, which I don't -- I have a fast one, but we both know that some servers are slower than others and the browser doesn't always draw from the cache. So it's a bother going back and forth. Then again, it depends on how you have the stories themselves listed on you website. I use opera as a browser, and if I hit the back button it goes back to the same line I was on previously -- it even remembers the previous page when I've had the browser shut down. So to me it's not that much of a problem anymore. I've added such things as links to other parts later, when I've had the time and haven't minded coding a bit -- I'm so used to it that I actually relax a lot when I'm working on it. If I were to offer you advice on this it would be to put links in when you make future parts/series and at some point when you feel you have the time, ad links to the previous parts. Do it as you see fit, don't do it because others ask you to do it.

As for CSS if there's anything you have questions about feel free to ask. I don't know everything, but I've used CSS for the past few years and I've learned the hard way that the ones who say that we should discard tables and entirely lean on CSS are wrong. The browsers are still not able to read it correctly, so using tables in combination with CSS actually yields that better result on that account.

Hey Xim :)

Well, in the end, I didn't link at the bottom of the Intervals pages. Each of the stories are pretty much self-contained things and each one has a different rating, size, etc. They also don't say at the beginning of the chapter what episode it's based on. The Intervals Index does that. Now, I'll link at the bottom for series like Voyeur and Lust because they're fairly short and are part of one single story, while Intervals isn't.

I know what you mean about CSS and tables and whoever said we had to discard tables entirely was full of it. *g* I can't get away from tables, especially for sorting my wallpapers. But I love being able to code them in my CSS so I don't have to fuss with the damn things except having to remember to put the "class="name"" thing at the beginning of the table tag. *g* I used the same design for my graphics site (which is now done, too) as my fanfic site--aside from being a nice design it's helluva lot easier than having to memorize a new design code for 50+ pages. Yeesh. ;)

Thanks for the viewpoint. :)

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