thefallenweeble

I signed up, but haven’t really gotten around to putting the voting link on my page. I’ve never been big on adding a lot of buttons to my site, and ranking isn’t particularly important to me. However, it is nice to be on the list. ??

Sweet! Another animator/artist in the WordPress stable! Nice, bold layout, and I like your artwork, too. I only had time to look at it a little, but I’ll definitely be back for more.

Take another look at Coppermine. The current version (1.3) allows for video and sound upload. It’s a bit hairy to make it play nice with WP, but it’s what I use, and I’m fairly pleased.

Very clean and elegant. The images loaded pretty quickly. However, as elegant as the site looks, the incredibly large header space detracts a bit from its functionality, IMO.

I can see the whole menu now at 800px. Although I’m personally not fond of fixed-width designs, I really do like the header image and the overall simplicity of the layout.

Here’s something cool to try… your “before PHP magic” index.php file that you renamed to .txt; try this: rename it to index.phps.
POOF! Syntax highlighting in the browser!

As far as I know, there’s not a really good way to do that without implementing some kind of kludge (like having an img tag reference a php script that generates an image with the text containing the proper number of days)…
Gee… I was a lot less than helpful there.

What do you mean when you say “get php working inside a posted article”? What, specifically, are you trying to do?
The site itself is pretty cool, although for me (Firefox 9.1 in Linux) your menu runs off the page in a 800px wide window… and there’s no horizontal scrollbar… weird stuff.

Pretty cool… although I have two issues.
1) The header image, while attractive and nicely mood-setting for the site is a bit excessive in size (both in pixels and bytes) for my taste.
2) Your text seems to be running partially under the right sidebar in windows that are 800px wide or less (Firefox 9.1 in Linux).
Great start, though. It’s good to see people not being discouraged by little things like PHP and CSS.

I can imagine laptops and screens/monitors with poor contrast might have problems displaying a light grey text color on a white background.

HaHA! Fixed! Now coppermine spits out both the width and the height tags and my footer renders where it’s supposed to. Rock!

‘Salright… I think I (sort of) figured out the Coppermine issue. For thumbnails, they only issue the width attribute in the image tags. Since there’s not height attribute, the proper amount of space isn’t reserved for the image. By the time the image downloads, the browser has already pulled and rendered the footer from the cache. That means it’s probably out of my control unless I can get coppermine to automatically generate height tags for each thumb (and that might make things prohibitively slow unless that data is stored in the db).
It might be possible to consider it a render-engine bug in Firefox, but I wouldn’t know how to verify that.
Thanks for the compliments!

New addition to the site… I call it an Anilog. What is it, exactly? Basically it follows the progress of the creation of an animation. A better description is available here: https://misaligned.net/news.php?p=9 . Alright… so it might not be that interesting to a lot of people. In fact, I’m wondering if it merits its own section on my site (one page dedicated to “Anilog” category entries). Any opinions on this? Is there anything else out there like this that I might reference?
Also, I ran across a javascript hack to implement png transparency here: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/index.htm . Has anyone had experience with this?

Heh… thanks guys. I’m glad you liked it. The nice thing, though, is that since I’ve migrated the site to XHTML/CSS, it should be a whole lot easier to create and implement an IE-safe theme that doesn’t rely so much on png.
By the way, has anyone got any tips on my footer/coppermine problem?