It’s Superbowl weekend! Rah! I’m not exactly what anyone would call a fan (I only watch one game a year and my viewing is punctuated with questions as I don’t fully understand the rules), but it’s our tradition every year to have folks over to watch the Superbowl on our big screen TV. dude_the will be flying in later this evening, and Patrick is supposed to be driving up from New Orleans. There’s some difficulty with the whole driving/car/transportation thing with him, so I don’t know what’s going on with that, but crossing my fingers he’ll be able to make it. Kristin’s also swinging by tomorrow for a Firefly viewing marathon. So, a nice full weekend coming up.
Redid my eugiefoster.com website. Decided to move away from my framed navigation approach and experiment with Cascading Style Sheets. Had to still do an inline frame in order to link to LJ and my Guestbook, but overall I’m pleased with the results. Although I could only test it on IE and Mozilla/Firebird.
If anyone’s using a different browser (Opera, aol, Netscape, etc.), I’d appreciate it greatly if you could visit my site and let me know if there are any glaring layout issues or errors. A note in my guestbook would be appreciated too. 
Writing stats:
Despite the cotton wads between my ears, thanks to the Clonazepam I’ve been taking daily, I finished the rewrite of my Urban Fantasy piece. I totally rewrote the ending, lopped off about 500 words, and it’s out. Fwoosh. Fly little story, fly!
Got a note from the editor of Paradox. Due to financial constraints, he’s switching production from quarterly to bi-annual and that means my story “The Tiger Fortune Princess” which was slated for publication November of this year, will be pushed back to June of 2005. Sigh. Oh well, that’s not the longest lead-time I’ve heard of. Hell, I waited two years to get word of a sale to Dreams of Decadence; I can wait a year and a half for publication in Paradox. But still . . . *twitch*
Matthew was generally ambivalent about the fantasy piece inspired by that Suzanne Vega song. I’m mulling over his suggestions to get to first draft state, then up to Critters it goes.
Received rejections from Argosy and two from the ELP library to round things out. But I’m pretty pleased with 2004 as far as fiction sales are going so far.
It’ll be three years between acceptance and publication of one of my stories in Space & Time–not slated to appear until next summer now. But that’s okay…something to look foward to.
I visited your site. The frames overlap for me–the box on the left with the links in it floats over your bio on the home page, and on the journal page, the nav box and your top logo both float over it, I’m a Mac user using Safari, though, so you might not care so much!
Ah, the joys of CSS, I know them well…
I have the same problem, also Mac OS X Safari.
here’s a screenshot of the problem on the front page:
Let me know if you’d like a screenshot of the other problem mentioned.
Re: Ah, the joys of CSS, I know them well…
Argh.
Thanks for letting me know and !
Re: Ah, the joys of CSS, I know them well…
a padding or a margins issue
That’s my resident CSS geek’s guess, in fact. He cooks, he does CSS, what could be better?
Re: Ah, the joys of CSS, I know them well…
Ah, but does he do windows?
Hey, I made a tweak to my margin spacing. Would you mind terribly taking a gander and telling me if it fixed the overlap problem?
Re: Ah, the joys of CSS, I know them well…
Under duress. (That is, he administers a network with both Macs and PC’s, but prefers the Macs. *grin*)
The link box no longer overlaps with the title and main text.
When I go to the journal page, the frame holding your journal jumps up to the top of the page, completely covering the title….
Re: Ah, the joys of CSS, I know them well…
“The link box no longer overlaps with the title and main text. “
Hurray!
“When I go to the journal page, the frame holding your journal jumps up to the top of the page, completely covering the title….“
@*&%$!! Dammit. Well, is here now with his Mac. I’m going to make him hook up and then do some debugging. Thanks so much for your feedback!
That’s not boring at all! I’m not sports minded either. I just like the excuse to have a party!
website
It looked okay in Opera after I turned off the Zoom view. (That is, at 100% it looked fine.)
The window for your LJ seemed kind of small, might have been my browser.
Re: website
Thanks for the feedback! Opera is definitely one of the browsers I was anxious about testing. Glad to know it looked okay. I’m still fiddling with the iframe dimensions for my journal page, but as long as it links properly, it’s a good start.
Now if only I knew someone on aol . . .