I’ve added a CSS fix to the site to work around the Internet Explorer expanding box bug. In a nutshell, IE will incorrectly expand a fixed-width block element if the block is populated with oversized content. On this site, that means that the sidebar can drop below the enter content block.
I employed the overflow:hidden workaround on my left-hand content block as described in the linked article on Position Is Everything. Thanks go to Titus for reporting the problem.
You’re looking at the new ACP Studios blog. This is the fourth major rendition of my online Web-log, and it has slowly evolved from a very minimal static page to a full-blown content management system. The site is now powered entirely by WordPress, extended with a selection of plugins, and presented using my own WordPress theme, which I may release at a later date.
You’ll likely notice some cosmetic changes, but I would also like to draw your attention to some significant changes behind the scenes.
Image Gallery The site now has an image gallery powered by Gallery2. Photographs and other large images linked from blog posts will be stored in the Gallery, which can be located from the top navigation menu. You can click on an image within a blog post to go straight to a larger view with image details or you can manually browse through the Gallery from the front page.
Desktops Moved The dedicated Desktops section has been removed. The invididual entries have been converted to normal blog posts and moved to the Screenshots category.
New Permalink Structure The permalink structure has changed for blog posts. Please update any external links appropriately. The new structure is %year%/ %month%/ %day%/ %postname%/. I have created legacy redirection rules to aid the transition, but they will not be able to catch everything.
New RSS Options The location of the RSS feed has also changed. WordPress conveniently generates feeds for different content in a variety of formats. You’ll find the new RSS 2.0 feed here and linked from the footer of each page. You can also subscribe to feeds that track comments for individual posts or for the site in the general.
That’s all I can think of for now. I’ll get back to adding regular content shortly.
My parents were in town this Saturday searching for home improvement ideas from the local speciality shops that only a sizeable city like Atlanta can provide (or so you’d think). From what I understand, they didn’t have much luck finding anything. Regardless, I got to enjoy some fine meals from Chin Chin V and Ray’s on the River. A made a point of taking them to our Fry’s; I don’t think they were impressed. I also wanted to take them to Jillian’s since it was in the same area, but the place was just packed.
Mom and Dad left on Sunday and I turned to web design and personal development. I reworked the integration between blog entries and gallery images such that the inlined thumbnails have been replaced with a simple image count (similar to how comments are handled) that will link to a full thumbnail gallery. The reasoning behind this is to save people page load times an generally improve the look of the site. Later on, I plan to make a full gallery where you can just browse pictures.
Along these same lines, I’ve started remastering pictures from my trip to China and I’ll eventually be removing all the old images and replacing them with the new. The new images benefit from common tweaks like auto-leveling that I never used when I originally posted the images last summer.
Finally, I’ve decided to pursue learning .NET. My initial project will be to create a Windows application that will set different wallpapers on each screen in a multi-monitor display. It’s a need of mine and I haven’t found any good applications for it yet. It should be a good learning experience. In the spirit of things, I downloaded and installed the Microsoft Visual C# 2005 Express Beta and made console and GUI "Hello World" applications. It’s ridiculously easy to do.
I decided to switch the main site over to the layout. I’m not done changing around some of the sections (particularly About and Links), but I’ll keep working on those on the backend. Enjoy the new layout and please leave a constructive comment.
I give credit where credit is due. Titus Barik motivated me to make a new layout. Mike Davidson came up with the top graphic style that I subsequently copied. 456 Berea Street provided the tutorial that in some form shaped the top navigation bar. Various other sites linked from Piepmatzel provided inspiration during the design process.
You asked for it and you got it.
You can now view and post comments about any post on my weblog. Text_Wiki markup rules apply. The web page and e-mail fields are optional and will not be shown if you leave them blank. I would prefer that you do include your name, if only your given name, to keep the flow of comments coherent.
Here are some examples of how TextWiki markup can be used. For more, see the TextWiki sample page.
- Strong Text
- **this** becomes this
- Emphasis Text
- //this// becomes this
- Strong and Emphasis Text
- **//this//** becomes this
- Web Links
- [http://www.acpstudios.net/ My Link] becomes My Link
