I hope. It required changing one line in the CSS. Why didn’t I do it sooner? Durrrh. Anyway, let me know if something isn’t working.

…from a long vacation in the US. Hopefully I’ll be updating a bit more now. I’ve been incommunicado for a while now, so if I haven’t been answering your e-mails, take heart that you’re not being singled out or anything.

With old-school table layout methods, vertical positioning is a piece of cake. With CSS layout, it’s a piece of something else.

From A List Apart: Articles: Exploring Footers.

I’m not too happy right now. I’ve got the new design for my blog worked out. It’s just the same as the old design, although I hope the code is a little more robust. Getting it to work as a theme in WordPress has not been fun, however. WordPress seems to be considerably more difficult to customize than MT. Like, I actually am having to read the documentation. Which really sux.

So I’m gonna try to get this done tonight. Beware:

I hate it.

So I’ve been working on a new design for this thing since I converted to WordPress. I came up with a new design, but I didn’t like it. So I decided to go back to the old design. Which I have to recreate, since when MT crapped out on me I lost all the templates and HTML pages. So I’m recreating it, and I get it to work, then all of a sudden it doesn’t work, despite the fact that I didn’t change anything. Also the pages where I got the basic layout (footer bottom, even when the main text is shorter than the viewport), pages that used to work, no longer work. In Mozilla or r IE. Or an online example page will work, but when I copy it exactly to a page on my computer, it won’t work.

Why have web standards not progressed since, like, 1999? XHTML, which is really not any kind of an improvement, was 1999. CSS2 was frickin’ 1997. That’s almost 10 years ago. And we still have to use hacks like this:

#container {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
voice-family: "\"}\"";
voice-family: inherit;
height: auto;
}

html>body #container {
height: auto;
}

to get things to work. I mean, WTF? This is the frickin’ web, people. How can the building blocks of the web have stagnated so much? I mean, we don’t use wattle and daub for making houses any more. Why do we still have to resort to crap like tables for layout in order to get decent cross-browser compatibility?

People are actually reading this blog now. I feel like I’m having visitors over and there’s dog hair and dirty dishes all over everywhere.

I’m in the midst of developing a new design for the blog now, so things might look a little wonky at times. Forgive me–it oughtta be done sometime soon, as I actually have some motivation these days.

WP apparently doesn’t allow me to have a non-deprecated Atom feed or to shunt my feed info to xml files. So, you’ll have to point your news aggregators to a different feed address again: http://brodwall.com/sarah/blog/feed/. Sorry for the trouble.

I’ve gotten everything moved over to the new server and imported into WordPress now. During the import, I noticed a bunch of new comments that people had written but I hadn’t received notification about. If you’re one of the commenters, know that I just found out about your comments right now, and I’ll respond soon. I promise I’m not blowing anyone off! Damned MT. I hope both WP and the new server prove to be more reliable.

Blog’s going to be down for a little while while I switch servers and upgrade to WordPress.

OK, I’ve finally got my blog back up and running, as should be obvious by now. I had originally intended to move it to a new, faster server, plus upgrade to the new MT version at the same time, but when I got stuff set up there, I realized that the new server only allows one database. Supposedly for technical reasons. One! So, I’m not going to be using that server for this domain after all. Unfortunately, I happened to go on vacation for a week in the middle of everything, which was probably not a good idea. Well, the going on vacation was a good idea, it’s the not-completing-a-project-before-vacation thing that was a bad idea. Anyway, now I’ve got a brand spankin’ new installation of the latest version of MT here. The pretty style isn’t uploaded yet, but at least the content is. Welcome back.