At last I finaly received my upgrade to Cakewalk Sonar 4 Producer Edition for my birthday… So now just need to find the time to put it to use. Time… ah yes I remember, that’s that stuff between cooking, eating, doing the web site, working and sleeping… So not much time left then. Oh well I’ll just have to fit it in somewhere. Ho Hum.
Sarah Downtons Web site is UP !!
Well…. after a final push I finally managed to find the time to finish off (so far) Sarah Downtons new web site.
There are still things we can (and indeed will) add, and that is all part of the fun really.
Keeping a website fresh is really hard, but please take a look (and keep coming back).
For the techies out there the design is now fully XHTML/CSS and is also XHTML 1.0 strict compliant (it validates from W3C) the CSS also validates. (Please let me know if that is not the case, Note: unfortunately, the site uses URL forwarding for the domain name, and therefore the site will NOT validate from www.sarahdownton.co.uk as is… I have no control over that wrapper frame, and guess what… it fails !)
Question now is… have I broken it for other browsers, I have tried it in Firefox 1.0PR IE6 and Opera7, but I do not have a copy of IE 4/5/5.5 to try. (They probably fail completely).
Well I hope you like the new site let me know what you think.
Some Progress with Sarah’s Website
I have made some progress with Sarah’s new website design… I have overcome some of the CSS incompatibilities that seemed to be causing me so much grief.
So given a bit more time.. There seems to be less of it these days… I should have something new to put up soon…(sorry but “soon” is as close as I can get to a deadline with this)
What I will do now though, is to put up what we have got so far, even if this is not as complete as I would like. The new stuff (specifically the bead pictures) is far better from a display point of view, even if the page doesn’t look very different.
The thing is I can now change the style and look of the page completely, without having to scrabble arround in html layout tables…!!! 😉
After that the next step is to set up an eBay selling account (and Paypal), so that we can sell online.
Sigh… Well more stuff to do… It’s never ending it seems.
As for CSS, I feel that I am understanding more and more all the time, it can be a real head banging experience if you are not careful, but certainly looking at how other people have laid out their sites has helped enormously (see my blog post “A useful CSS resource“)
A useful CSS resource
Found an interesting, and also very helpfull CSS Resource
www.CSS Drive.com
There are some lovely CSS example sites on this site. Plus many CSS and Javascript examples.
Internet Explorer Exposed!
Found this today… “Explorer Exposed!” from Position Is Everything (P.I.E)
Very interesting, it lists all the currently known IE5 and 6 bugs… certainly makes interesting reading. Plus of course tells you how to fix the problems, which is always useful.
The rest of the site is pretty good too from what I can tell (I haven’t had time to read it all yet !!)
Re-sizeable Two Columns – Left Menu CSS
I have modified the BlueRobot layout reservoir 2 column – left menu layout to allow for dynamic resizing.
See my new design here -> Re-sizeable Two Columns – Left Menu
The only real difference is in the CSS, in that this now scales correctly. (Try changing the font size in the browser, Ctrl + “Mouse scroll wheel” should do the trick). All positioning and sizes are now done using em’s as opposed to pixels. This can make the site much more accessible for people who like their fonts a bit bigger.
I have tested this in Firefox IE6 and Mozilla (latest versions) and if someone can test in Opera and others (ie Safari etc) that would be great!
There is every posibility that there are some issues with this, as it is a first hit, and as such may need some tweaking.
We just missed being hit by a tornado !
Looks like we narrowly missed being hit by a tornado this morning !!!
BBC News: Salvage operation after ‘tornado’ I must admit I just slept right through… aparently the wind was quite strong where we were anyway, although the tornado was about 1 mile away – that’s quite close enough for me thank you very much !!!
Phew !
Edit: The really spooky thing is that this is not the first time this has happened
See The Argus news report from April 2001. Macleod road is just next door to the one that occured today..
My favorite comment:
She said: “If it happens again I’m moving. It just seems to be this area.”
Well… it might be about time to move.!!!
Useful packaging companies
The Bag ‘N Box Man, Bags, Boxes, Tubes, Envelopes, Labels and Packaging Materials for the UK.
Just for reference, a packaging company as used by Amanda Glanville
And here is another one PottersUK
New Silverlemon (Sarah Downton) website
I know I know… Man… setting up a new web site can be a pain.. I am struggling with CSS incompatibilities at the moment… (between IE6 and Firefox). You think you’ve cracked it, and then load it into IE and it all looks like a pile of rubbish…!
I must have read the CSS2 spec through at least twice from cover to cover, but there is always something that catches you out.
Hopefully I will have the new site up as soon as we get some final pictures for it as well… (that’s the olther thing holding up the process), trying to get pictures that are good enough, and can also be scaled down to show the detail even at thumbnail size is a challenge.
Currently there are two URL’s for this site www.silverlemon.co.uk and www.sarahdownton.co.uk
We will be going with the www.sarahdownton.co.uk URL now, so the new site will also reflect this.
Googling for Security Vulnerabilities
Some of the things that are left exposed on the internet… mind blowing !
Peter Westwood – Googling for Security Vulnerabilities: See Peters Blog for more info…