Mighty's work .plan

Tweaking, and testing speed

• 12:30
• Idea: Forums/newsgroups. Prolly not. Not a big enough user base. And, we'd need someone to moderate
• Idea: Downloads? Probably. On second thought, just let downloads live on the Links page, and off of the FAQs
• Idea: Scan a few of the hand-written kudos
• Turns out, if I rearrange any button in the menu then MM2 renames everything back to generic numbers, and removes my meaningful custom names. I just posted a question about that. Because if I have to revert to numeric names to keep them in order, that's going to mean that if I ever add a new menu button I'm going to have to visit every page following that one to set its down state to the new button number
• Dad commented on the speed of the menus. They're plenty snappy here. I just tried them on my other machines. On the P3/1GHz they're fine. But on the P2/400 they're pretty slow, whereas aopa.org is still snappy. (Oddly, Opera displays completely unformatted text (not the source code, though) for AOPA, only on that one machine. I was able to test their speed with IE.)
• Uploaded a test .css without backgrounds for the flyouts. No noticable difference on the P2
• I just found a hint that Movable Type can do multiple categories. So I think I'm going to install that to handle my .plan file
• Took a minute to make the content 605 wide, to match the logo and footer. Looks pretty good
• In logo, stretched text and moved books to the right
• Moved the top buttons to the right
• Added five pixels padding to the right of the footer, to bring the Webmaster button off of the right edge. That also helps the top buttons look centered
• Got a response to my question about MM2 wiping out my changes. That's Just How It Works. I posted a followup question asking how other people handle this situation. One idea that popped to mind is that instead of calling the MM2 initializer directly, I call a little .js function that takes an identifier of mine and calls MM2 with the appropriate value. That concept would work in PHP, too.

Posted by Mighty at April 1, 2004 10:49 PM