dEsKOh91 VX: Improvements
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
I had been hard at work squashing all those irritating bugs from VX. and am glad to annouce that most of them are gone by now.
what made debugging this time round so difficult:
1) I strived to maintain compatibility towards Internet Explorer 6 AND 7 and Firefox. thus I hopped between my desktop and laptop to check the results of the change constantly.
2) this blogskin was styled through CSS (cascading style sheets, not the school), a first for me. I spent much time researching the various codes that I could use.
3) it is the tenth blogskin of this blog after all. I tend to follow the original design really closely previously, but with this one, I wanted to make sure more parts of it is really mine.
the bugs that are found and removed:
1) aligned the two sidebars (one housing friends and reads list and the other for tagboard and archive). one used to be uplifted relative to the other if seen through IE6. fixed through a change to "float:right".
2) with that previous problem solved, there came a new problem of broken gray background borders in Firefox, so I made the entire background gray to make it "disappear" in a sense.
3) I straightened the top title bar. there used to be a disalignment near the middle. fixing this took the most time. the culprit turns out to be with the "h1" table section.
and finally, cosmetic improvements:
1) the title bar was improved customised with different fonts and sizes, the original design had an extremely blocky title and a way too small sub-title.
2) personal links section at the top right hand corner of the dark gray area. easy access to my future photo album. also in case I have an entire "deskoh91 network" next time or something.
3) many more tiny touches that will satisfy the perfectionist in me, but are probably too minute to be noticed by anyone else.
why did I type this out? no idea, probably to tell me if you found more bugs. if you are using Opera and there are more problems, use Firefox or IE instead. I cant possibly spend another day on this after using nearly six hours combined solving everything listed here.
what made debugging this time round so difficult:
1) I strived to maintain compatibility towards Internet Explorer 6 AND 7 and Firefox. thus I hopped between my desktop and laptop to check the results of the change constantly.
2) this blogskin was styled through CSS (cascading style sheets, not the school), a first for me. I spent much time researching the various codes that I could use.
3) it is the tenth blogskin of this blog after all. I tend to follow the original design really closely previously, but with this one, I wanted to make sure more parts of it is really mine.
the bugs that are found and removed:
1) aligned the two sidebars (one housing friends and reads list and the other for tagboard and archive). one used to be uplifted relative to the other if seen through IE6. fixed through a change to "float:right".
2) with that previous problem solved, there came a new problem of broken gray background borders in Firefox, so I made the entire background gray to make it "disappear" in a sense.
3) I straightened the top title bar. there used to be a disalignment near the middle. fixing this took the most time. the culprit turns out to be with the "h1" table section.
and finally, cosmetic improvements:
1) the title bar was improved customised with different fonts and sizes, the original design had an extremely blocky title and a way too small sub-title.
2) personal links section at the top right hand corner of the dark gray area. easy access to my future photo album. also in case I have an entire "deskoh91 network" next time or something.
3) many more tiny touches that will satisfy the perfectionist in me, but are probably too minute to be noticed by anyone else.
why did I type this out? no idea, probably to tell me if you found more bugs. if you are using Opera and there are more problems, use Firefox or IE instead. I cant possibly spend another day on this after using nearly six hours combined solving everything listed here.
