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In a previous post I mentioned that I was designing a website for my university’s Philosophy department. Well, it’s finally finished!! :roll::woot:

Department of Philosophy

Take a look and let me know what you think. Suggestions and/or criticism welcome!

I just finished a new layout for my toplist, Cute Top 25! It’s the first new layout since it began in 2003. I had a hard time with the CSS. As always, Internet Explorer wouldn’t do what I wanted it to do Oh well, I think it turned out pretty good.

Edit: New layout for my webring, Oh My Cuteness as well!

Don’t forget to donate to the victims of Hurricane Katrina!

I’ve reopened the BubblesSWAP button rotation As always, please let me know if you run into any problems.

Edit: Webring script complete!

Wow, I’m on a roll! I just finished my new toplist script and now I’m back to working on the script for my webring. If you were a member of the old Cute Top 25, you will need to resubmit your site and pick up a new voting link. Also, be sure to let me know if you run into any bugs. I hope this new script will help me out with broken images

I wrote a new guestbook script because a lot of scary stuff was showing up in my old one. Let me know if you receive any errors when posting

I’m going to the beach this weekend and I may or may not take my laptop. (How sad is that? I’m on vacation and I still can’t live without internet! :P)

The results are in for the previous Caption Challenge. I also posted the new picture. You had better start submitting your best captions because this time the winner will receive $5 in cash from Bubs’ own pocket! Get excited!

i have to type this entry in lowercase because my keyboard is acting up again

in my quest to convert my site to pure css, i’ve been working a lot with styled fieldsets using a great tutorial found here. i stumbled upon a bug that’s been bothering me for days. the textarea and submit button inside of my fieldsets keep getting shoved over in ie, causing the entire layout to collapse. the other form elements, however, are not affected.

here’s what it’s supposed to look like (firefox)
here’s what it looks like in ie

after tweaking the stylesheet a bit, i discovered that the textarea/button nested inside the fieldset was inheriting all other specified left-margins in ie. here’s an example of what i mean:

the code:

<div class="cont1">
     .cont1
     <div class="cont2">
          .cont2
          <fieldset>
               <textarea cols="10" rows="5"></textarea><br />
               <input type="button" value="Button" />
          </fieldset>
     </div>
</div>

the css:

.cont1 {
     background: blue;
     margin: 0 0 0 10px;
     padding: 5px;
}
.cont2 {
     background: yellow;
     margin: 0 0 0 15px;
     padding: 5px;
}
fieldset {
     margin: 0;
     padding: 0;
}
fieldset textarea {
     margin: 0;
     padding: 0;
}

the textarea and input button are shoved to the right by 25 pixels (the left margin of cont1 + the left margin of cont2). i haven’t had time to do thorough research, but as far as i know, there is no workaround for this bug. i did find someone else who had the same problem, however. someone suggested in the comments to enclose the elements in an arbitrary div, and that seemed to work for me.

new code (same stylesheet):

<div class="cont1">
     .cont1
     <div class="cont2">
          .cont2
          <fieldset>
               <div class="arbitrary">
                    <textarea cols="10" rows="5"></textarea><br />
                    <input type="button" value="Button" />
               </div>
          </fieldset>
     </div>
</div>

the arbitrary div idea is fine for now, but i’d like to find another way to remedy this bug. has anyone else had this problem? if so, how did you fix it?

this is the last week of the semester! hopefully i’ll be back to blogging regularly by next week

*I’m doing some site maintenance, so beware of errors! They will go away *

I finally got around to making a new skin. It was originally intended for my webring, but since I was putting so much effort into the CSS, I figured I might as well use it for my main site Some of you may remember the pear and orange from an old webring layout. I spruced them up a bit with my new tablet (which is incredibly hard to use, I might add). I made the pink tiled background, but the green one is from Squidfingers.com. The top image is a 88698 byte PNG, so let me know if I need to splice it up in order to cut down on loading time. Any feedback is much appreciated!

PS - I’ve been converted! I’m now a full-time Firefox user

Spring Break is here and I can finally relax!! This is the first time I’ve been home to see my family since Christmas I’ve been so busy with school this semester.

I recently learned some cool PHP tricks, so I’ve been coding a lot lately. I added an admin panel to my plugboard script, but I’m sure it’s full of bugs since I wrote it in five minutes I also wrote a quilt management script for the Quilting Bee that I am quite proud of. If you’re a Qbee member and you’re interested in using my script, just email me for the details. Right now, I’m working on a script for my Ringsurf-powered webring, Oh My Cuteness. When I complete the script, I think I’m going to start from scratch and be a little more selective for membership.

I’m so proud of William! He got an internship with Congressman Aderholt of Alabama for this summer. I’m going to be lonely without him. The good news is that I’ll get to go to Washington D.C. to visit him

Just two more days until I’m 21! I can’t believe that I’m practically an adult Too bad our vacation plans for this week didn’t work out… I was going to celebrate my birthday at the beach. I’ve asked my parents to get me one of these tablet thingies… anyone familiar with them? If so, is there a certain type/brand that you can recommend?

Well I’m pooped, so I’m heading to bed. Happy Easter!

Visit Natasja and Dayna

I’m so sorry for neglecting my website and my dailies. This time of the year, school gets really hectic. I’m going to be really busy until Spring Break, then after Spring Break, I’ll be busy until the end of the semester. I’ll try to update as much as possible, but don’t count on hearing from me daily.

I don’t know if I mentioned it before, but I’m a terrible reader. As a result, I’ve missed out on a lot of great books. I’m also at a disadvantage when it comes to school. So far, I’ve made it through three years of college with hardly ever consulting a textbook. Lately, I realized that if I intend to do well in my studies, I’m going to have to make myself a better reader. Therefore, I bought three books this week: Animal Farm, 1984 (I’ve always wanted to read those two), and The Other Boelyn Girl. I’ve already finished the Animal Farm and I’ve started 1984. The Animal Farm was so good that I couldn’t put it down… and ended up missing two classes

Last night, my friends and I went to hear Jackson Jones (Rach’s boyfriend, Michael’s band) at a bar in downtown Tuscaloosa. They are so good!! Here are some pics from the night:

I’ve chosen my top five favorites from the past Caption Challenge. It was really a tough decision since I had about ten favorites. In the end, I picked the captions submitted by Chris, Arwen, Katy, Tuan, and Yajaira. I’ve posted a new picture for the challenge, so go give it a shot!

I gotta go to bed now. I have a Calculus test Tuesday and I’m determined I’m going to make a perfect score. I could’ve had 100% on the first exam, but I chose to watch anime instead of studying I’m going to study all day tomorrow like a good student!

Question: What part of speech is a word like however or nevertheless?