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When an eternity lasts for ever...
~Logical Insanity~
Orange Unicorn:
Layout:
Y'see, I really loved the unicorn picture--look at them oranges!--I still do, but no one I asked thought I should use it, so I used the Pink Oriental one first. But love like this cannot be denied...
So I used it in my usual layout and it didn't work. Because if you look at the actual graphic, you will see that the background color is hideous (well, I don't mind it so much now, but I knew the graphic wasn't wide enough either). I couldn't alter the file, but I could cover it... So I stretched out my little table skills and set the far left TD's background as the graphic and had a dark grey bgcolor.
I started using CSS*: removing the links' underline (bad idea), designating little accent colors, and using sans-serif fonts because they're easier to read on computers. And then I got a little more clever and tried putting the title on the side (which didn't work because some titles were too long so it became the area for section titles). And then I got a little ambitious and made my precious little splatfoxes. Aren't they orgasmic? *squeal*
* To save time with new layouts (read: same layout, different graphics/color schemes). The irony is that once I started doing more, I didn't want to stop. So they didn't save me time, just bandwidth.
And with my basic layout changed, more changes came. One of them being that I actually named the site (Logical Insanity).
The Layout:
Let me tell ya, it was hella fun cutting and pasting all the dates to their new position. It always is. Beneath the date is the start of my ego concerning how many pages I had. It only appeared on the home page (otherwise it was a link to the home page), but that number... *sigh* It's made it very difficult to delete worthless pages. I've had to forbid myself to count them until I upload Papercut Serpent and it's still painful to weed things out.
I thought the menu was very clever until I had to use it for the other indexes. Suffice it to say that while I continued to use it, it severely pissed me off and often looked awkward. Then I read an article that criticized people who only used centered menus. My shame was complete.
Top of Page || Email me was still working for me, so I left that. And look: my first copyright notice. Awww.
Sections:
- Who 'm I? - unchanged.
- Royal Jester - (sub) switched from icons to bulleted lists to save time: disc=newest, square=second newest, circle=old. Since I split them into three lists, I only had to edit the list and not every single <li> an update.
The top ten lists were put into a frame for a bit until I realized I was just doing it because I could and changed it back. *awards self 1,000 points of no value for being practical*
I think this is when I started wondering if too many people wouldn't know jester = humor.
- Royal Ranting - (sub) I wanted a word that sounded raunchier and finally settled on rant. It was the sexy two 'r' sound, I think.
- MSKing's Artistic Attempts - (sub) shortened the link name to "Artwork." Moved the index's menu next to the graphics and changed the link colors.
- Color World - (sub) Added a pretty butterfly (the first graphic I actually made for the site) and moved the index's menu next to the table instead of on top of it.
And since I finally started learning about colors on computers, I added RGB values to the tables and tips for color usage.
- Writing Corner - name shortened to work with the menu.
- Poetry - (sub) added the morbid section.
I saw a guy called lx's poetry section and liked it. His menu was a list of poems by the date he wrote them and his files were a number and the poems' name (01-poem_name). So I started listing mine by the date I added them to the site under their categories.
- Essay - (sub) unchanged.
- Short Story - (sub) unchanged.
- Monologue - (sub) unchanged.
- Update - they started being separate pages since I talked so much. There were three in the archives at a time and they all linked to each other.
- Brain Dump - considered. I knew Earwig Haters Unanonymous would go in it.
- Web Design - you can't see it, but I started thinking about doing one now.
Good-bye, Geocities:
Their stupid navigation bars at the top of the page had been bad. Then they started offering shorter URLs and I had to put that link up so links/graphics wouldn't be broken. Finally, they switched to those dreadful popups. I was using the space they were covering up! But the worst thing is that the new advertisements meant adding a javascript to the bottom of my pages and that meant an unsightly gap which revealed my cheat with the background.
So I bid good-bye to Geocities.
Dude, I was there when the Dilbert ads were everywhere. *gets nostalgic*
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