There's a new storm video!!! It's a part of My 2012 Storm Week-Part Two. This is the last storm video for my 2012's Storm Videos. You can CLICK HERE to see the the video or click the thumbnail below. I would embed it, but the menu stops when it hits the player.
On my official blog, I made a post about the making of one of the POTW's. Now, instead of flooding the main site with the same picture everywhere, I'll just keep the post over there. CLICK HERE to see it. I'll be doing loads of "Making of's" and they'll only be posted on my blog. Also, there is a BTS video made for the new picture. It's 14:41 in length. You can CLICK HERE to see the video or click the thumbnail below. The video player messes with the menu or else I would embed the video.
There's a new storm video!!! It's a part of My 2012 Storm Week-Part One. Part Two will be next week to finish off ALL of 2012's Storm Videos. You can CLICK HERE to see the the video or click the thumbnail below. I would embed it, but the menu stops when it hits the player.
There's a new storm video!!! It's a part of My 2012 Storm Week-Part One. Part Two will be next week to finish off ALL of 2012's Storm Videos. You can CLICK HERE to see the the video or click the thumbnail below. I would embed it, but the menu stops when it hits the player.
There's a new storm video!!! It's a part of My 2012 Storm Week-Part One. Part Two will be next week to finish off ALL of 2012's Storm Videos. You can CLICK HERE to see the the video or click the thumbnail below. I would embed it, but the menu stops when it hits the player.
On my official blog, I made a post about the making of one of the POTW's. Now, instead of flooding the main site with the same picture everywhere, I'll just keep the post over there. CLICK HERE to see it. I'll be doing loads of "Making of's" and they'll only be posted on my blog.
There's a new storm video!!! It's a part of My 2012 Storm Week-Part One. Part Two will be next week to finish off ALL of 2012's Storm Videos. You can CLICK HERE to see the the video or click the thumbnail below. I would embed it, but the menu stops when it hits the player.
There's a new storm video!!! It's a part of My 2012 Storm Week-Part One. Part Two will be next week to finish off ALL of 2012's Storm Videos. You can CLICK HERE to see the the video or click the thumbnail below. I would embed it, but the menu stops when it hits the player.
There's a new storm video!!! It's a part of My 2012 Storm Week-Part One. Part Two will be next week to finish off ALL of 2012's Storm Videos. You can CLICK HERE to see the the video or click the thumbnail below. I would embed it, but the menu stops when it hits the player.
CLICK HERE to go back to the past changes "2013 MONTHS" menu. V.17- This was a big one. I keep a list of things that I do...and it's long. At least, it looks long to me. More than the usual small updates that have been happening lately. Here's what I did:
Re-dined the inner code of the Hover Warnings.
If you didn't know, the Hover Warnings are the red float text that is at the top of the Main Site when you scroll past them.
I re-worked the codes inside it.
I tested them on my blog once. Just to see what I could so with them. And it worked...but the title of the blog at the top of the page floated with the text. Because the code was set to <header>, anything with <header> floated...like the title.
Well, I went through the code and named all the <header>'s <header111>. And now, there's no conflict. PERFECT!
Next, I moved the .JS codes where the HTML codes are.
The .JS codes where at the bottom over the site with all the other ones. I moved them into the hover warning element itself.
I was seeing if it'll fix the random loading issues. It seems to have worked.
And lastly, I integrated the Hover Menus into it.
For a while now, I have had this Hover Menu test on the Test Site. All you see is a link. But when you hover on the link, a menu pop up. It's very cool.
Well, while re-working the warning's code, I realized...There's more than one Help Page. And the Help link in the Warnings just goes to menu of the pages. So, I thought...Why not just use the Hover Menu for that.....BOOM!!! IT CLICKED!!
So, I tested it and worked wonderfully. And now, after being on the Test Site for a LONG TIME, the Hover Menu was finally added and it's default test removed.
It is a bit buggy though. The menu opens fine when the Warnings are at the top of the site and not hovering. But in hover mode, the menu closes when you try to go for it.
It helps to hover over the word "HELP" and quick move the mouse into the menu.
That's it for that. Wow. That was a lot. Now it's on to the small things.
I learned the art of image mapping.
If you don't know with that is, it's when you put multiple links on a single image.
You'll see on Sunday when the first storm week starts. ;-)
Favicons.
At the bottom of all the sites, you'll see nine little pictures. Those are the favicons from ALL my Blogger sites. I forgot to add the membership site. The Membership Site is like lost now. It's behind and hasn't been touch in a while. I'll have to work on that.
Anyways, those aren't just pictures...they are links! They go to the site the correspond too. And not only that, they are special links.
They open in the new window that is a specific width and height. That width and height also happens to be the size of my little laptop's screen.
If you didn't know, I made most of my sits on my old little laptop. The sites are made to fit in it's screen. Other sites like Weather.com and Facebook fit perfectly in my screen and many others. So, I made that the minimal width of my sites. They all fit in without a bottom scroll bar.
So, now I can test if things fit or not without my laptop. It's tiny, slow, and has a hard time loading the sites....in fact...any site.
And then...I realized something while testing them on the Test Site before I pop them in.
I had this test called Player Width Test.
It was a link that opened up a video in a set window size....see where I'm going here.
When I made the Favicons Width Test, I used a totally different code using JavaScript that took me a while to research and code. So I was like... I DID ALL THAT WORK FOR NOTHING!! I HAD THE CODE RIGHT IN MY FACE THE WHOLE TIME!!! Well, all is not lost. The Player test used HTML. Simpler and easy. So, now I have a Java one and an HTML one. Like what I did with the IMPORTANT NEWS banner.
So, I used the HTML Favicons. But the Java one is still on the test site, too.
Oh, and I reverted the favicons back to their old selves. The new ones just didn't look right. I'll have to work on them. I also made the Test Site's favicon completely black and white instead of a faded version of the Main Site's favicon.
Changed the Better Way to View width back to 1024.
At the top of the Main Site, I let you know that the site is made for a specific width. I changed it to 1154 and don't know why. Well, I put it back to 1024 because that's the width of my laptop and I have to new way of testing if things fit with the Favicons at the bottom of the sites.
Changed the name of the Free Rider section.
In the menu. It was called "Free Rider 2 Tracks". And since I updated to Free Rider 3, I just took out the number since the codes work for both games.
Did a little adjusting in the Side Bar.
I made the POTW picture a little smaller. It fits better.
I messed with the Facebook comments.
I just want the comments to show on the page people comment on. If you comment, it goes to all the pages because the code is set to one URL. I didn't have this much trouble with the Disqus comments.
Like what I had before the menu. Just a row of links. And then I thought...I could but a hover menu on each link and make a little menu thing. But I didn't work. I guess I'll just have to add them as normal links.
And lastly, I cleaned up the test site.
I finally integrated two tests that have been on the site for a long time. So, I removed their default tests. And I removed a few others that I tested and wouldn't work, but keep them there for a future EUREKA moment.
Wow, that's all. That was a lot. I like a good sized update. There was one more thing, I began plans for New Year's 2014. Like changes I want to start and what not. As in, Update the Membership site, back-up all the codes, etc. Just getting a head start and making plans. It's good to have plans.
It's time to get the storm videos out of the way. The video is the last storm video for 2011. And then after this will be TWO Storm Weeks for 2012's videos.
So, CLICK HERE to see the video or click the thumbnail below. It would embed it, but the menu stops when it hits the player.
It's time to get the storm videos out of the way. The video is one of the last two storm videos for 2011. And then after this will be TWO Storm Weeks for 2012's videos.
So, CLICK HERE to see the video or click the thumbnail below. It would embed it, but the menu stops when it hits the player.
On my official blog, I made a post about the making of one of the POTW's. Now, instead of flooding the main site with the same picture everywhere, I'll just keep the post over there. CLICK HERE to see it. I'll be doing loads of "Making of's" and they'll only be posted on my blog. Also, there is a BTS video made for the new picture. It's 11:45 in length. You can CLICK HERE to see the video or look below.
On my official blog, I made a post about the making of one of the POTW's. Now, instead of flooding the main site with the same picture everywhere, I'll just keep the post over there. CLICK HERE to see it. I'll be doing loads of "Making of's" and they'll only be posted on my blog.
Monday, September 2nd, 2013- I have busy lately. I was going to do a nice good well edited video and typed update....but I'm in a tired mood. I want to sleep. You can see this month's update video, RIGHT HERE.
