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Just posting a link to my site or in this case, a section of my .com that has seen more of my attention lately.
Hopefully 350 posts is enough for this not to qualify as spam . I can always throw in links to chinese websites selling products to 'give her pleasure' if you insist - they seem to have replaced the nigerian scams in my inbox lately.

But on a serious note, I finally have something going decently on my .com site and just uploaded two more ads tonight.

the link for those interested
..grabs appropriate tags
<shameless plug>
and my other site
</shameless plug>

both are improving noticeably right now and the road map is fairly clear in my head.

edit: minor update

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Brave New World narrated by the author from early 1956 is now available here on the main download section for anyone interested

I have decided to use Ogg-Vorbis at a lower setting for these longer files, works quite nicely for mono recordings.

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Thanks! I’m listening to the Brave New World recordings right now!

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I uploaded five more ads tonight from the same show covering three weeks. It had three sponsors and hence three commercials - practically unheard of in 1951.
The link is unchanged from the first post in this thread.

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Howdy, I am posting this spa......er......important post to ask a small favor.
"Does this look infected?" oh wait wrong question.......

I have been working on the .com site mentioned in the previous posts in this thread and would like some feedback on the current look and such things.
And for the record I am aware of - "Dude, the menu looks just like slashdot" as I have not changed that at all yet in colours or anything else from the dynamic drive code.

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Cisco_Kid wrote: I have been working on the .com site mentioned in the previous posts in this thread and would like some feedback on the current look and such things.

The multiline section headings in your menu are unreadable at my font size, because the white text overruns into a white background once it goes past your 25-pixel background image. They also clip when collapsed, because the CSS gives div.sdmenu div.collapsed a height of 25 pixels. You cannot assume that I have a certain font size or that my browser won’t wrap the lines and go past 25 pixels. (I’ve temporarily loaded a screenshot, which represents both Gecko 20080528 and WebKit r29752 on GNOME. If you don’t have this problem, you should be able to reproduce it by increasing the font size.)

Give your headings a background color to go with the background image: (#393939 is what the GIMP said the bottom-most pixel was in title.gif , and I got rid of the overflow on purpose.)


In the collapsed state, kill the links entirely instead of covering them up with low height. Instead of: Use:
The usual warnings: I only tested it in Gecko and WebKit, I haven’t had enough sleep to think clearly, test it locally first, etc. I’ll have a harder look this weekend. In the mean time, you might want to put your doctype before anything else in the page to keep browsers from using quirks mode. I would also change the doctype to HTML 4.01 Strict and run it through the validator.

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Oh, and I do like the design – very clean!

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Thank you very much another set of eyes Chris, I will try to clean up those areas you mentioned. My grasp of that CSS is admittedly weak, and it looked fine on my systems.
edit: most interesting, I tried the display none for the collapsed state and then I do not know to bring the menu back when it disappears.

Just giving it a background colour made the menu look quite funky. I will have another look in a little bit.

Edit 2 - The only changes currently are cosmetic ones with the colours, I will attempt those deeper areas again later tonight.

edit 3: I had forgotten about the firebug extension in Firefox, makes it so much easier to see changes 'on the fly' with the CSS.

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Cisco_Kid wrote: edit: most interesting, I tried the display none for the collapsed state and then I do not know to bring the menu back when it disappears.

I also changed the selector, but it looks like you figured that out. Sorry for not emphasizing that!

Cisco_Kid wrote: Just giving it a background colour made the menu look quite funky. I will have another look in a little bit.

I just realized that the background color will bleed through the image on div.sdmenu div:first-child , which can be fixed by replacing the transparent parts in toptitle.gif with white. (In the GIMP, you’ll have to switch to RGB mode, add the white, and then switch back to an indexed color palette, because white is not in the original palette.) Other than that, though, what are you seeing? (Edit: This is with the changes I suggested earlier.)


Another realization: I don’t recall our dear friend IE 6 supporting the :first-child pseudo-class. You might want to give that first <div> an ID instead and style with that.

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Another realization: I don’t recall our dear friend IE 6 supporting the :first-child pseudo-class. You might want to give that first <div> an ID instead and style with that.

I truly do not care about IE6 support BUT my test with it here (my crash box is blessed with that 'web browser') show that the menu does lose all of its functionality there. What a tired old piece of junk. *loads shotgun to put it out of its misery*
for now at least I can live with that. Not quite sure how give that <div> an ID and in no mood to play with it tonight. Anybody who uses or is forced to use that web browser has my sympathy.
The main impact I see on the menu is that the dropdown is a quick snap now rather than slower pace.

edit: just loaded the new code in IE7 and that works of course but my previous comment paraphrased "What a piece of junk....Anybody who uses or is forced to use that web browser has my sympathy. " still applies to that as well.
edit 2: I zoomed way the hell in on both FF and Opera and saw no trace of the problem Chris had - I could duplicate it before.

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found this
"The :first-child pseudo-class adds a special style to an element that is the first child of some other element.

Note: For :first-child to work in IE. A <!DOCTYPE> must be declared."

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Cisco_Kid wrote: found this
"The :first-child pseudo-class adds a special style to an element that is the first child of some other element.

Note: For :first-child to work in IE. A <!DOCTYPE> must be declared."

I’m tempted to say W3Schools is wrong, but I included how to declare your doctype in the PM I just sent.


If you want to avoid :first-child entirely, you can add an ID (bolded; feel free to change it) to the first <div> in your menu:

<div style="float: left;" id="my_menu" class="sdmenu">
<div id="first_menu_section"> <span>Main Site</span> <a href="http://www.torlian.com/index.php">Index
Page</a>
<a href="http://www.torlian.com/historic_recordings">Historic
Recordings</a>
[…]

And then change all instances of “div.sdmenu div:first-child ” to “#first_menu_section ” in your style sheet.

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Just posting an update here that goes nowhere the detail of CSS, and so on....
My menu is a nice simple thing now that should work for everyone and involves no javascript whatsoever.

The JFK tribute album is back now in Ogg-Vorbis (as of tonight) - it has his full inaugural address, bits from his last public speeches, and other things.


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