January 2, 2003

My efforts at site redesign still continue :p I’d give you a link to a sample but I don’t like the way the original layout turned out and would rather wait till I can get the second effort up today with the actual look I wanted. I’ll probably go back and redo bits of the layout but working in layers in PhotoShop has it’s advantages in that that I don’t have to redo all of my work – just certain bits 🙂 I’ve actually been enjoying my work in PhotoShop – it’s different from coding but gives you the same kind of satisfaction when something comes together just the way you wanted it. Of course, my problem usually is that I can imagine it but don’t have enough graphics knowledge to implement it :p Oh, I just realized why my layout doesn’t look the way I wanted it to – and now I realized why I can’t do it that way and retain a good HTML page which works at all resolutions :p Ah well, I still don’t know if it’s any good but I’ll be interested in your reactions when I can put up the next test page today …

In the meantime, I’ve also been turning over the idea of doing some PHP-based behind the scenes manipulation to let users choose different colored variations of the same style for the site. The code is definitely doable (heck other people are doing it :p) but I realized that at least one of the mirror sites would have to run off one of the other servers because it doesn’t have PHP installed on it. The problem there is that if the server with PHP were to be offline, the mirror server would not display the page properly either – unless I put in some sort of mechanism in place for that eventuality too. That seems to complicate things but I guess I should first get the layout out, then look into theme switching and then worry about using that on all of my sites :p

As for actual coding on Scope, Blog or BlogMan, I’m afraid that I’ve done nothing :p I still think there is some sort of a problem in my migration to Delphi 7.0 but can’t put my finger on it. I need to work on it but at the moment the call of PhotoShop is greater and so bear with me while I get PhotoShop out of my system and get back to coding :p

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Posted by Fahim at 6:40 am   Comments (6)

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Mike 01 January 2003 at 2:03 pm

Just make sure you enjoy the new year Fahim

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DeViLbOi 01 January 2003 at 3:36 pm

why are you worried about one mirror being down? Then again…do you really need all 3000 mirrors of this page? I can see mirroring the apps, but if your journal is down, no offense here, who cares?

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Fahim 02 January 2003 at 4:20 pm

Umm … no offense here but since you feel that way, who cares about what you think? :p

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DeViLbOi 02 January 2003 at 7:46 pm

me myself and I :p

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Fahim 02 January 2003 at 9:19 pm

LOL. Actually, the whole question about a mirror site being down had to do with the fact that the downloads are all linked from the site interface and if the interface is gone, people might even not be able to get to the interface. But actually, since I’m hosted now, I am thinking of doing away with multiple mirror sites and going back to one central site – http://www.farook.org for all my software. So it might actually become a moot point in that case …

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Edward McCain 03 January 2003 at 4:18 pm

mirrors are like spare tires – next time your spare is flat, you’ll remember this entry 😛

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