If you notice anything odd about this post, or the next few posts, please let me know. I'm in the process of testing some code I learned while the site was down. Yes, I finally went over and read a few things about CSS, and I think I've got a handle on it enough to try a few things here. You may have already noticed that my BG no longer scrolls with the page, I managed to get that piece of code up earlier, now I have a few others I want to add just to make my formatting a little less hairy on the source end. I've tested this code already, but that doesn't mean it'll work here. I will be testing it here ironing out any unforseen difficulties as they arise. Anyone who knows CSS is encouraged to provide assistance on those efforts.
With that out of the way, You all probably noticed that the whole site was down this weekend, and if you haven't checked the TheO front page, here's what was happening. Adam, the site's founder and Massin, one of the programmers, began to notice some problems all over the site on Friday, I think it was while they were working out the thumbnail kinks on a new server, but I'm not sure. To make a long story short the primary hard drive for this site failed, but content up to a week ago (Aug 28) was backed up. Any submissions after that date will have to be resent, but as Adam said "It could have been infinitely worse." If you get the time, stop over on Adam's page, or get out to the TheO main page and post a message of thanks to the staff here for working their hardest to get the site back up and running as quickly as possible. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm understanding of situations that aren't in anyone's control.
Comments:
Chabichou
Let me tell you, I miss the journeys to school on autumn mornings (had to get up at 6 to catch the bus), but I don't miss the schooling one bit. I can still see warm afternoon sunlight cascading through the bright orange, yellow, and red leaves as I'm getting off the bus, and smelling that damp air coming out of the woods, if I'm not all stopped up in the head. I don't mind the cold, as long as there's plenty of the white stuff out there to make it worthwhile, otherwise, I hate it too.
Yensid
Lucky for me after sixteen years of living here, I'm sort of becoming imune to the things that physically crippled me my first year in the state. I've never had things that bad though, so I guess I'm lucky there. Hope you get to feeling better soon.
I hear that, I'm one of those (of Celtic coloring) myself. My firey red har may mean I've got a temper, but like a vampire the sun and I don't get along too well. The fall is just so tranquil, and you get some really wonderful pictures, which reminds me I've got to get out and do some shooting soon.
That's good to hear. I've been told I can come off a bit abrasive when I'm trying to explain something (especially so when I'm tired). At least we know Word is the most likely culpret in the matter now, since I'm not the only one who's brought up the possibility. That must have been a disaster to fix all those punctuation errors. I've seen that around the web several places, so you're not the only one it's happened to.
I think I have it figured out. In using the float function for an image you can specify the margins top left right and bottom, you have to use a number of pixels, but you should be able to set it up so that the words aren't butting the image. I'm using 5px for this picture here and of course I'm floating it to the right not left.
You're wanting something a little more like this rather than my first test image over there. I haven't come across the hspace code yet so I can't help with it, but on the float code for CSS, just use the margin code. You want your image floating code to look something like this: .leftfloat{ float: left; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; } See how the margins are specified? You can do that with each margin to force the text away from the image without using a table. I use 5 pixels, but you can add more or less to your liking. Of course you can use your own class name (the .leftfloat part before the bracket) I did that so I would know what I expect to happen when I use the class for an image or something. It tell me without a note, or my having to look it up in my ref sheet. If you're wanting something more advanced than that, I can't help yet, I just started learning this stuff. I can offer this from my own testing though, look for line breaks in your code. Sometimes those stop the code from working, like here on MyO, user inserted CSS code can't have any line breaks in it at all. Try taking out all the line breaks in your code, and if it doesn't solve your issue, let me know. I'll also have to do some digging into the hspace code and see what I can come up with for you.
Well, Theatre is a performing art, so I guess you could just use that, though I imagine breaking a pencil (for artists in that medium like myself) would be worse than breaking a leg. Spilling paint would be a nightmare for painters, crushing chalk for chalk artists, I could go on coming up with these things, hope I inspired a winning phrase out of you.
No worries on the picture, I'll worry about that on my end. I probably should do a test run just to see how things go and to make sure nothing goes wonky on us. Maybe later I'll do that. Photoshop Elements 2 and Corel Painter Essentials 2 came with my tablet, but I use the program Pixia for 95% of my digital image editing needs anyway.
Anime Dreams!
