Sidestepping the issue… Sort of…

That’s it, I’ve decided to stop trying to make it work correctly in Internet Exploder. It’s just not worth it, I’d have to put design elements in the HTML instead of leaving it all to CSS and I’m totally against that.

So I’ve decided instead to warn IE users and try to help them out of their (probably unknown) state of darkness.

So from today on visitors using IE will get this nice warning on the context-menu bar to the right:

[This image was lost to the ages. It was a cool one, though. :-)]

This will let them know of their plight and, at the same time, offer them a helping hand out of their misery.

Actually this screenshot illustrates some of the problems with IE, for example note how the border around the content part is totally opaque instead of the nice transparent graded shadow. Note also the ugly fat orange bar just below the menu item (About).

If these complaints strike you as surprising then you must be an Internet Exploder user who has probably thought that I must have been crazy to switch my design to this ugly mess.

Well, now you know better, go get firefox or any other standards-compliant browser and open yourself to a whole new world where web pages look the way they are supposed to.

On the road (yet again)

There is talk already of the next big trip.

The prospects of next year seeing us back to the american continent are looking quite good - 2005 may be the year of the Canadian cross-country, coast-to-coast road trip.

I’m already amassing information for this trip on the wiki. When it (finally) comes into public service I’ll link to the relevant page.

I guess Ireland will have to wait a bit longer, but it will be for a good cause! :-)

The photolog sections…

… are in dire need of revision; Not only are the existing ones totally inadequate, they are also too few.

The problem is that it is much more fun to browse around in the huge backlog of pictures, revisit the ones that look more promising and choose some of them to put on-line than it is to get lost in administrative details like these.

Come to think of it playing around with old (and not so old) pictures and, generally speaking, creating content is much more fun than kicking the site into some kind of shape… I still have to address not only the sections of the photolog (that’s easy!) but I also have to hammer the wiki into shape so that I can finally integrate it into the main site, deal with the exploder problems with the site’s CSS and coax the photo album software into the same design as the rest.

It will take me quite a bit of time and this is not a pleasurable prospect, but it must be done or else I won’t have a decent place to show off the content that I like so much to create.