The world of Liam: June 2005

The world of Liam

Er.. Liam practicing his typing in front of a possible audience of a few billion, and a probable audience of significantly less.

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Location: United Kingdom

Sunday, June 26, 2005

HSC Website

Hi all,

Long time no speaky. I've been a bit busy building the newest version of the Hanworth Club's new site. The background work is almost done. Here's the link..

The link

And to show you the difference, here's the old site..

The old site

You'll notice that the content is still lacking, but I'll have a fair bit of time this week to change that. As I new that I was eventually having a brand new name for it, and I'd have to do a fair bit of developing to get it running with SSI, I just sort of left it pretty much the same for the last couple of months. But, as you'll see if you have a look, there'll be competitions and everything.. sadly these can only be won.. a free pint, if they're lucky, by members of the club. Don't worry about that though, if any of you want to enter then do so.. you just don't get the beer.. or the recognition, although I don't see a problem with having a "Best Outsiders Contribution" sort of thing.

The other thing you may notice is the navigation buttons on the left. I was mucking about with those for quite a while, trying to get them looking as though you're actually pushing a button in. I'm quite chuffed with them.

If Ciber or Renegade happen to read this, they have a different effect depending on the browser. In MSIE or Avant (uses the IE engine) the 'depressed' button incorporates the entire length [of the button]. In Opera and Firefox (yes, I really did test more than one browser) the 'depressed' part of the button only encompasses the length of the lettering.

I'm also having a few problems with image placement across browsers, no browser shows all the images I have inserted. ???????

I've also checked it with the w3c validation thingy for both the HTML and the CSS and, with the exception of the two summer league pool pages, which are hastily thrown together tables, and will be meaningless in about a month, I'll probably just wait till then and delete them, cos going through the list of problems on them looks too time consuming.

Apart from the pool, can now proudly display both of the following on the site...


Valid CSS!
Valid HTML 4.0!



I don't know if I will or not, but they look pretty. Oh well, I've got Bingo now, so I'd better go and do that.

**[Edit, the logos don't display here.. ????????? Anyone see the irony}**

Another edit. They work now. Isn't that daft. I've just spent 10 minutes getting code from a validation site to work. Should I trust anything they say?? Probably yes.. :) It doesn't though, to be honest, inspire me with a full bucket-load of confidence.

Cheers

Liam

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Shootin' frogs in a barrel...

Hi all,

I was going to put a techy blog about all the fun I'm having creating css buttons for a (yet another) version of the HSC website, but I couldn't get them to demonstrate here.. so??

I've now found something else to amuse me.

Shooting that darn frog

Have you ever wanted a chance to shoot that crazy frog.. No! Not Jaques Chirac, the other one. Well here's your chance. Click the link and have a play. You have to see how far you can shoot him. I've had a 91.5 so far. I warn you though, it gets addictive.. well I thought so anyway. Leave a comment with your highest score. If nothing else it shows you still love me.. sniffle.. :D

Cheers

Liam

Thursday, June 09, 2005

I've been away again...

Hi all,

As the title suggests er.. I've been on holiday again. Below are a small selection of the photos I took in North Cornwall. The complete set comprises 416 pictures or so. I got a bit trigger happy with the camera.. one of the benefits of digital. It would have cost something in the region of £80-£100 to do the same in wet film, and still only end up with a couple of dozen good pictures.

So, as I'm on my dinner break at the moment and about to go back to work that will have to do for now. I'll add a little bit of text to each photo later on in explanation. For those of you on dial up, they may have even downloaded by then. Sorry. I keep meaning to adjust the size of these before I upload them to the blog, but only remember afterwards.

Cheers

Liam



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