Beat To My Knees, But Grinning Like A Fool
Got some GOOD time in today on the site. I guessing that I got in at least eight hours, which is very, very rare. I mostly worked on the site, which allowed me to apply the “new” design over everything but the forums. Never thought I’d get so far so fast.
Thinking about why it’s taken me so long to get to this point, I’ve come to two conclusions. 1. My head is in the right place and 2. I’m more experienced at XHTML and CSS than when I started. My chops are much more honed than when I started and it’s allowed me to fix things faster and strip out non-essential code pretty quickly.
What I’m most excited about with the work I was able to do today is the home page. I think it looks 100 times better and I’ve been dying to get the new design applied. I just couldn’t have done it any sooner, because it relies on some big changes with the format of the meetings, news, calendar and forum include. Just a pile of things that I had to get through before I could change the front page.
Speaking of things I had to get through, I had a hell of a time with the navigation. As you may recall my good buddy Dan Westman created an application for me to build the navigation. It’s a combination of XML and PHP and it does an amazing job at handling all the various states of the navigational elements. Unfortunately, it’s a 0.1 release, so it has some issues.
For example, it doesn’t remember past work and it doesn’t allow you to fiddle with the order of things once they’re entered. Since it’s been so long since I worked with the navigation, I had to completely re-enter the information and that was t e d i o u s as hell. Mind you, I’m not complaining. Dan was an absolute angel and I wouldn’t have been able to do the navigation with out him. My point is simply that it ate up a good chunk of time. At least 2 hours straight, non-stop.
I’m exhausted and now that it’s after 1am, I’m definitely ready for bed, but I know that I’ll go to sleep with a smile on my face because I was able to get so much work done. Man does that feel good!
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