Moving In

Okay. The (not even) two or three of you who're taking a look at the website are probably doing so on the version of the site I have on my UTexas webspace (which will redirect to the new webspace when I'm done). Well, work on the PHP-based version of the site has gone underway. The Javascript and IFRAME reliance is gone, meaning that web crawlers can freely... crawl my web.

Due to overwhelming demand from a third of my viewerbase (I'm looking at you, Kevin), I made sure to make the site compatible with Safari (the Windows version, at least). Unfortunately, it looks like someone went and hit something vital on the site when viewed in Internet Explorer- it refuses to render what it had previously rendered. Here's to hoping MSoft makes good on their promise for a compliance-mode in IE8.

As I write this, all the pages I had up on the old site are now up and running (except for IE users) in new, spiffy PHPness (heh). You won't notice the difference, but it's a lot easier for me, now.

Host Jumping

Okay, I've actually found a PHP-offering free webhost, with no ads. There's some stipulation about forum activity and activity in general that I have not yet looked into, which will probably come back to bite me, but it looks promising so far. Soon enough, we'll see a complete website up and running there, and the utexas page will redirect to it, since I like the .edu URL. Soon, we shall be free from this hack together of Javascript and IFRAMES in favor of server-side includes. I hope.

Also, maybe Safari users won't get screwed this time around. Strange how two ACID passing browsers render this page totally different. I blame IFRAMES.

An Explanation

For those who found this magically through Blogger and not through the personal site it was made for, this blog might not make too much sense. I am basically using this Blogger account to manage news posts for my personal website, Asterism (edit: new site is here) which is, in turn a repository for my 'creative output', which is really just the parts of my creative output which I deem anywhere near suitable for human palatability.

At the writing of this post, though, large chunks of the site are missing, namely the text-based (Musings) and pictures (Drawings) sections, as I haven't really figured out how I am going to format layout of the latter nor figured out what to put in the former. The main problem of the drawings section is getting the Ads to pick up on the comments I put on each thing without simply mashing all of the silly text bits onto the HTML file or giving them all their own separate pages...

Oh no. He's gone and made a blog.

Well, because it's all the more spiffy and easier to archive using a blog for my news posts rather than hand-code my index page every time I want to tell you about an update, I've gone and set up a Blogger account with my already-existing Gmail one. Yay. The problem with that is that these news posts will no longer be readable by those Google ads on the side of the page, so they'll have a jolly old time trying to figure out what they should post. It shall be amusing to see what they'll put up there. It's not like the 0.2 people who look at this site who aren't me click on the ads anyways.

On another note, I've uploaded my philosophy notes to date. If there is a problem with this, I will gladly take them down. I don't see any reason why there should be a problem though, since we can freely give notes to sick people, and it's not like I'm handing out test answers...

I've also made one less dead link on the page. "Recordings" now actually leads to a page. Next step is trying to think of a suitable layout for image posts (do I really want to make individual pages for each one, or should I javascript it? I'd do the latter, but the same restrictions of javascript from before apply). Writings is slightly easier, though I don't really have much to put up there (what, do you want my old, high-school poetry?).