A few things:

[katster]

First, I have been working on a web page for my advanced web design class, and it's coming together pretty well. You can see it here if you're curious, and while the lorem ipsum will be replaced with a biography of me, and that it doesn't look as good as I'd like in IE (stupid IE), it looks nearly spot on to what I wanted in Mozilla, which makes me pretty happy. It was funny, though, because macklinr put me on the right path this evening, but I didn't quite figure it out until he stumbled off the moo. I really need to catch up with him and buy him a beer or something, though. :)

Other than that, I have so much to do and so little time, so here's a list to keep my mind on track of the stuff I need to do.

• Clean up and print Accounting homework ch 2 9-12, stick in binder
  
• Do Accounting ch2 1,2,8
  
• Finish the damned Rehab paperwork already.
  
• write biography for web page
  
• set webpage free
  
• write biography for creative writing class (due Th)
  
• do creative writing exercises when book arrives
  
• buy other book for creative writing
  
• take syllabus test for web design
  
• do first homework assignment for web design when book arrives (hopefully W)
  
• read Mac OSX book when it arrives (hopefully W), finish filling out take-home quiz
  
• get binders organized before Th
  
• try to think up more ideas for poems than just levees and rivers
  
• go to career center on campus, see if they can help me with the job thing
  
• register with campus DSP
  
• go to doc's appointment on Wednesday
  
• keep up with dishes
  
• finish cleaning my damned room once and for all
  

whew, I think that's it.

But bed first.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Stupid IE! Don't let it bully you into coding for itself and itself alone, for IE is a selfish master!

O:>

[macklinr.livejournal.com]

IE may be stupid, but I'd bet that your teacher will be looking at your page in IE -- after all, it still has well over a majority of global mindshare.

That, and this comes from years of web development -- if I make something that doesn't work in IE, I probably don't get paid. :)

[katster.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's not that it doesn't work, it's just that the design isn't quite the way I wanted. It's not *bad* in IE, it's just off.

And I think I have an idea how to fix it, but it would require detecting the browser, and I'm not quite sure how to do that.

-kat

[macklinr.livejournal.com]

While I would *highly* advise against doing so, I'm still compelled to tell you briefly how.

*Ryan fails his self-control roll over Compulsive Helpfulness*

You can do so client-side (via Javascript, most likely) or server-side (via "insert whatever scripting langauge you have access to here", both involve parsing the User Agent. You can google for specifics, rather than have me clutter up stuff here, but I figured I'd let you know how, even though the idea of doing so sounds Really Bad to me.

[katster.livejournal.com]

Okay. I think I've figured out how to fix it without relying on that, so I won't do it. Besides, since I don't know a lick of javascript (which is pretty much the whole reason for taking the class), I'd be fooling with something that's still over my head.

Anyway, the problem as it exists is detailed in the next post.

-kat