Pirahna’s blog

I didn’t get much chance to brag about the Smacketeria design (white gray and black, but still a design).
It’s not very friendly, but not very hostile either. I divided the areas pretty well i think … in the left we have the magazine (all the left column) with the 6 featured articles, in the right we have the sections that extend the magazine, the forum, blog, archive, videos and screenshot.

Unfortunately it still depends on me, because the front page of Smacketeria is not finished.
But because we did a little teamwork today and we got in the “Go Smacky” mood, i upgraded the Smacketeria blog, brought it to the 2.3 version of Wordpress.
I added the old empty design, and got modifying it.
This came out :

I like it, it’s Smacky style, has a permanent easter egg (symbol), and it’s working.
I just have to deal with my own stuff … clean the css up (some lines aren’t useful) and arrange the files nicely … clean it up so it’ll work faster (millisecond faster) so i can modify it easier the next time.

That’s all, my back hurts.

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)

That top banner didn’t manage to make more then 30 cents per day, so i’ll change it …
I placed 2 banners on the right (tower ads) and one link under the first 3 posts.

So i have 3 link units and 2 ad units.
The two ads aren’t positioned in the page hotzone (below the title), so they probably won’t be making much, but i hope the 3 link units will.

If this doesn’t work either, i’ll change it next week again, maybe even some design modifications.
I still hope the banners don’t disturb you, the idea remains to have a blog that can pay itself (i’m talking about hosing) and not a money making machine.

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)

Whoa … still on for 12 hours.
I still got work to do, but after this i’ll go on to the next project (which is big and mean).

These days i felt time running by slower. I solved a lot of tasks “like in the old days”, which means fast and many. I’m a little proud of myself, and i’m awake for a long long time, but in the last days i snorred for 9-12 hours a day … that’s half a day.

But it’s already saturday. That’s not good.
Not good at all.

Time still flows, so i have to continue doing titanic efforts.
Looks like the problem earlier (see previous post) still exists, looks like i didn’t reat it like a serious problem, but as a annoying problem. And that was a big mistake because i have 15 pages with problems now.

It’s time to go back to work.

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)

These 3 browsers made me go mad … especially Firefox.
Before Firefox, everyone used to make websites for Internet Explorer (because it was 96% used, or one of those major percentages), so you wouldn’t have anything to complain about.

Eh, Firefox takes the code a lot more easier then IE, so immediately caught up to webdesigners.
But it does have it’s share of incredible bursts … among other problems.

There are cases (not too few) in which a site looks as it should in IE and Opera, but not in Firefox.
I stumbled upon such a case right now.

I created a website testing it in firefox, and then i wanted to see how it looks in the rest of them (because the page looked very good from a CSS point of view, nothing too fancy to get me in trouble). Oops … 10 pixels were missing off a column.
I checked out the html, the css, i checked them again, i removed the padding because i know IE has troubles with that, nothing changed.

After dozens of minutes of verifying all, a little piece of content pops in my eye … a word separated by a line. Looks like IE and Opera split the word on the next row when they find one like “site-ul”. Firefox doesn’t.
Firefox moved the whole word onto the next row, leaving a big blank space above, and adding 10 extra pixels to the column.

Another similar situation was earlier. I dunno how it happened but i didn’t close a hyperlink tag from an xhtml file, and on IE it didn’t show the page completely, same on Opera, only on Firefox it showed all the page, like it had no error.

I’m trying to fix the situation with the splitting words, but i really don’t like it …
With Firefox :

Without Firefox :

Is there some CSS command to make Firefox split the words ?

–The Pirahna (aka Piry)