08.02.99
Barrel o' Content
Well after the hell that was last week (just one entry here because of the confusion), I’m back on track for this one. Having Lunch and getting down to work on 3 different projects. Let’s hope I can keep them all going really well.
The class at PSU was a real success. I think I gave everyone a lot of meat to chew on, though I didn’t get as much hands on stuff into the class as I would have liked.
Next time through I’m going to make the examples all work together, encourage everyone to have a floppy disc to keep their files, and build out some HTML and images that they can all work with. As well, I’ll put a like to my WebDev toolbox on the hand outs so people can access the freeware/shareware tools that we used in class.
If anyone knows of a good, stable stand-alone HTML Image Map creation utility for the Mac, drop me a line. The ‘WebMap’ piece of crap I’ve got there now has some serious stability issues and doesn’t output Client-Side Image Map HTML.
From the Respoding-Via-The-Pager file: “Hell is Other People” was dropped into my pager last weekend. It came to me at a rather opportune moment as Amy and I were were having a bitchfest about the problems in our lives and it was nice to have someone chime in…
Oh, speaking of which, those of you who sent in ‘Quotes’ for me to post a few weeks ago, I didn’t forgo… Well actually I did forget, but as I’ve got them in front of me I’ll list out some of the better ones:
“hes mumbling words behind his red right hand”: Obviously from a Nick Cave fan, as this particular passage of the song was only part of the DJ Spooky remix of Red Right Hand from the Scream 2 soundtrack. Else it was from someone who got that disc and therefore the track incedently and knows me well enough.
“hide what you have to hide and tell what you have to tell” was one of several Depeche Mode quotes that floated my way.
Amy sent me a few pages, most of which aren’t quite the kind of content that I post in public forums… 😉
Bo sent me a link to a new project of his, kind of a study in DHTML. I think he learned quite a bit about some of the pitfalls. He built the page in Dreamweaver, and I think it’d be great if he wrote up some of his tips and hints and included them at the bottom of the page. (hint hint) http://www.valleysoft.net/webmaster/autumn.shtml
A friend in the Netherlands has put up a new journal, and I’ll have a link to it later this week when I get it from my bookmarks list at home.
Cam over at http://www.camworld.com/ has redesigned his pages. Very subdude, but better than his last one. And hey, can’t hurt that he’s added me to his list of Weblogs. I don’t consider this a Weblog, it’s much more personal than that.
Anyway, back to the Spanish translations of the ESCO site. (The English portion of which is now online at: http://www.escocorp.com/hammers/ and the URL rewrite using JavaScript is working really well, though I have yet to test it on other browsers.) Wish me luck!