Site shuffle
I ended up merging the three RapidWeaver projects for timofejew.com into a single project file. The rationale for this was to enable “breadcrumb navigation” (which you can see at the bottom of all the pages). Not strictly necessary, but I kinda like it. Gives a bit more information as to how deep you are into the site.
As a side effect, the “finitesquid” directory (and URL component) has been retired. It makes the URLs shorter, but I have also added a couple of server re-directs for the popular pages (er… popular with, oh, maybe my 2 or 3 regular visitors…) Even if you’ve bizarrely decided to bookmark parts of my site, you shouldn’t really notice much difference, as you’ll automagically boomerang to the correct page. If not, my “page not found” page has a “popular destinations” section to help navigate out of the mess. Just for kicks, try clicking here for a bogus page to bring up the error page.
Also, I’ve been mucking about a bit with the infamous drop shadows. Since it horribly breaks Mac Internet Explorer, I detect this browser, and disable all shadows. Also, with Windows IE 5.5 or earlier, shadows are disabled as well. The problem I sort of care about, however, is with Windows IE 6. The shadows are almost right, but not quite. The problem is, if you look closely at the corners of the photos (assuming you’re using that brain-damaged browser), the corner GIFs are shifted a couple of pixels off. Looks like crap. Sigh. But, it’ isn’t so horrid that I want to disable it, or put in some convoluted JavaScript to use the thumbnail hack. Bah. Microsoft programmers can’t code their way out of a paper bag. They’re still stuck in not-invented-here land.
However, the CSS drop shadows work just ducky with all the other browsers that were not created by Microsoft, so screw it. I’m going to hope that the upcoming magical IE 7 will handle CSS a little more sanely. That’s assuming they ever get around to finishing it – it is a couple of years late already. Thus ends my development on drop shadows.
Anyway, I should stop screwing around with the site and get some personal affairs sorted out. But I really do like the distraction…