Jenn Boo-lari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

After watching Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse, I'd hoped the Barbie Movie was gonna be more silly than straight. And oh, my goodness, they knocked it out of the park with the trailer alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zIf0XvoL9Y

::old lady yells at interwebs::

Trying to move away from Frontpage 2003 for web design, but the only recent WYSIWYG editor out there for Linux is SeaMonkey, and it just will not work with my tables. Joins won't work, splits won't work and sometimes even Undo won't work. And it loves to relabel my stuff as a file instead of a relative link.

I really need to learn scripting, but I've never been good at that. I used to make HTML and BASIC sing cause they were simple code. < start >, < /stop >. So easy.

::Sigh::

NOW YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN

The Star Trek pages are now sort of up as a test of the content template: http://dolari.net/test/startrek

This is an old template I've had designed for a while. Section Navigation on the left, site navigation on the right, content in the center with a banner up top and disclaimers on the bottom. I think it works.

It seemed a little monochrome having everything in flat turquoise, though (my previous versions had nice see-through background gradients that wouldn't work in a dynamically changing table), which is why I decided on adding backgrounds to the pages. I tried a V'Ger blue background, but that made it MORE boring. Using the wormhole from TMP with it's red really made the blue pop.

The links to the Star Trek pages work, but take you to broken sites, so don't click those.

What do you think?

More feedback, more fixes. Even MORE feedback may make for even more fixes, so please feel free to critique.

Off the bat, I'm making these pages for Desktop Viewing, Mobile Viewing is secondary. I hate to do that, but I'm just not that good at putting sites together that can dynamically change. I'm cheating that by allowing the tables themselves to dynamically resize themselves. It works, although it's not ideal.

First up: http://dolari.net/test

I've upped the font size on the text to make it more readable. I'd forgotten that the reaosn I used small sizes was for labelling images, which I'm doing with alt-text and tooltips, and was using it for main text. I did, however, make the "small print" very small.

Text colors and are now gold on the main page, instead of grey/black for stuff that isn't done yet. I'm hoping the [Soon] labels and that the text links don't light up are enough to signal that those pages do not yet exist. The Poop Orange for Alexandria is now dark green. Here's the thing about those colors. Each section of my website is based on a color. That color? Chun Li's outfits in SSF2T. I'm out of colors. So for Voices of Authority and Alexandria, I tried some Street Fighter Alpha colors. But a bunch of those are ALSO the same as her SSF2T colors. Im thinking of duplicating the color schemes, just making them 50% darker at this point for any new section.

There is now a background to the page, jsut to break up the monotony of the black. I actually had this as my Livejournal background, but for some reason, it would stop working after a few weeks.