Another meager update to the Version Vibrant Information post. Just putting the item I had here last time in there, not much else happing on the Version Vibrant front in terms of new information coming out to the public, so there isn't a whole lot for me to do with that right now.
I mentioned family stuff last time, I couldn't post it then cause I had to let myself calm down enough to present it properly. Basically, I had to tell off my brother in an e-mail after an incident with his wife (she abuses him like you wouldn't believe - I don't want to hear that sexist crap that men can't be abused by women, I've got the photos to prove otherwise) which I've told him time and time again I can't do anything to help him about and all telling me does is stress me out. I rarely every curse at my family, but I had to this time, just to make my point clear to him. He knows what he needs to do to help himself out of that situation, but he's too stupid to do it. Anyway, that was the issue bothering me last time, I want it out there in the public that my brother's wife abuses him, just in case the worst does happen to him (she has threatened him many times).
The past two weeks have really been something for me. I've been sick with I don't know what, I've been exhausted from being sick, and I've had weather playing with me every chance it's gotten. As far as the sickness goes, I've got congestion in the chest, a random cough, my head's a bit stopped up, and I've had fluid in my right ear making it hard for me to hear very well. not fun to say the least. That said, I might not get around to the sites for a while since I may take some time offline to let this thing run it's course.
Since I run a 1024x768 res monitor here, that's what set my site up to work with. Here's a quick question for you all though, anyone running different resolution monitors?
Comments
On Version Vibrant Update:
SomeGuy
At least someone "in the know" appreciates what I'm doing for those of us who aren't. Someone has to keep all this stuff straight, might as well be me.
On Dragonish Update:
scorchbird12:
Yeah, it's hard to make things work 100% for everyone. If you ask me the W3C should step in and tell browser builders like Microsoft, Mozilla, and whoever else is out there what essentials they should render the same way. It shouldn't be a fight to code up one page to look the exact same in IE, FireFox, and other browsers. I don't know much about flash myself, that's a whole other set of headaches. I'm more on-board for Version Vibrant now than I was say a month ago, but that's because I'm liking some of the things about it that I've seen posted here.
I couldn't remember the Abe Lincoln quote about that, but it applies wholly.
I think any language's word for fire would have a cool sound to it, but fire itself has to be carefully tamed before it's a fascinating subject. Pyrography is neat in that taken literally, it means "fire writing".
It sure does.
Not when it first opens up, that is if I understand the privacy options as they were explained in the Feature Announcement postings. After thing get a little more advanced, then ranting there will be semi-safe, but I still recommend going off TheO to rant about TheO topics, just to prevent any unnecessary friction on the site itself.
I miss a couple holidays too, and sometimes Google does multiple images for the holiday too, which is fun as well. I'd like to see TheO do things like that. Heck they've got the images right here on site, lots of people draw holiday artwork.
Alphonse122:
I know the feeling there. Thankfully that's eight years behind me now. Take your time, come by when you can.
Thanks. It's still kind of "in progress" so I may end up tweaking it again at some point soon, but I don't really know right now.
That happens to all of us sometimes, it happens to me a lot actually.
timechaser:
You know, if you play your cards right with that Watercooler thing, that could become a flagship example of some of the blogging features on Version Vibrant. I like the idea, and I think it'll work wonderfully for the purpose. I'd like to see it as more than a collection of ideas myself.
Yensid:
Impossible. There's no way under the sun to effectively navigate the internet on FireFox alone. The browser is good, but it's still got a lot of compatibility issues with the internet in general that they need to fix to be 100%. IE is probably seen as the most active, only because 90% of people with computers are on windows based machines so they'll naturally use what they've got. I try not to design for any browser at all, I use as many of the codes that aren't proprietary as I can, but even so, I have to make certain accommodations to get things to work in both major browsers.
Web design is one of the toughest graphic arts there is. With all the different monitor sizes and screen resolutions, there's no way to make something that'll view perfectly all the time. It's easy to build something for your own screen and hope it works for others as well. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. It is easier to work on paper, that's not something that will change. The pixel thing gets a little more complicated, what with the whole PPI and all.
I think it's safe for me to call this one a "work in progress" cause even I'm not liking the field of gray right now. I don't like anything on my page to not be readable, and with the old image, the text in the left-hand menu as well as in the introduction (things outside the blog post) were vanishing into the BG image more than I liked. The surfing lizard should be up in the right-hand corner for now, that's where he'll be till I get something with more visual interest up. I might do something similar to my mothman BG to make everything readable and have some page interest. I have enough lizards to do that.
I think my coding is split 50/50 with the Post Styles and in the post itself, but the more complex stuff is in the Post Styles, mostly cause it makes writing up the posts neater for me, and I'm too lazy to copy and paste that extra stuff every time I post. My biggest source for info is actually the W3Schools website, but having a printed reference that you don't have to keep switching windows to refer to, will be a bigger help in that department.
I guess I'm attached to TheO/MyO for it being one of my first online community experiences. I hate to see it struggle, and I love to see it succeed. It really bothers me to see people at odds with each other over little things here, it doesn't make any sense for people to do that. I think I started really seeing TheO/MyO in a mature perspective actually back in 2004. My "honeymoon" with the site was over long ago. Even so, I still consider it ne of the best online communities, especially relating to anime which is a passion of mine. Every community has rough patches, and I expect to see a lot of those as Version Vibrant comes out. I know how you feel, I've seen lots of good people affected, and that's changed my look on things here.
That reminds me, I've got to take care of that e-mail anyway.
Actually, I haven't had the time or energy to sit down to that material yet. Between my being too sick to concentrate, and the weather not wanting me to be on the computer lately, I haven't been able to give that a go yet. If I'm not sleeping off the antihistamine later today, I'll get started on that so I can learn a thing or two, and test out some tutorials I've been wanting to try for a while now. I think the best way to learn something is to just play with it on your own, that's how I got so good in Pixia, though the newest build don't like to work in Windows XP sadly. I'm stuck using an older version of it. Have fun with your program.
