Michael Barton — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:06:33 +0000

I’ll assume you’re reading this via RSS, considering how very broken my web page is at the moment. I decided to clean up the markup so I could go all CSS Zen Garden on it. After working on that for a bit, I decided to rewrite everything using Smarty templates. So right now, roughly half of my web page is converted to templates, half of it is using a stylesheet that no longer applies to the markup, half of it has no stylesheet, and half of it never worked anyway (Archives, I’m looking in your direction). I’ll have time to put it back together now that school’s over.

I guess I should retract all of the bad things I insinuated about my class. Any time I get an A, it couldn’t have been all bad. So, school is over. I guess after the holidays I’ll have to figure out which way is up.

assignment 7

Michael Barton — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:03:15 +0000

I’m unable to describe assignment 7, except to say I’m glad it’s 1998 again. True to the nature of the required scripts, I have made a Web page about my dog and also hosted it on geocities.

Most of my effort was put into re-implementing the “dragging clock” so that it works in both Firefox and IE. I haven’t gotten the dragging effect quite right, but I expect I will. I wasn’t sure what he meant by “a banner with scrolling text”, but I didn’t want to just write a poor man’s version of the marquee tag. So I made some text that moves along a sine wave — something I’m fairly sure marquees can’t do.

On the plus side, the semester is over in a week.

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assignment 7