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Still Alive

April 6, 2008 / posted in Gaming, Site News / No Comments

I haven’t been the best blogger as of late. There hasn’t been much for me to talk about. Alexis flew off to Michigan for a week and a half to help her parents move and left me to fend for myself. Thankfully she’s back now. I don’t know how much longer I could have lasted.

Yesterday was the last regular season game for the Dallas Stars. They beat the San Jose Sharks 4-2 and on Thursday they play the Anaheim Ducks to start the first round of the playoffs. The Stars have made it to the playoffs on a regular basis, but don’t always do so well. They have played extremely well this season except for a loosing streak toward the end. I’m confident that if they play their best they can win the Stanley Cup.

Expect a change to my website soon. I’m going to be modifying the layout a bit to go with fixed width content. The current page shrinks and expands to take up the whole browser window, but the new one will be a certain size. Then I may have a menu to allow you to choose which you like best.

CSS And Images

December 6, 2007 / posted in Programming, Site News / No Comments

I don’t have much to post about at the moment. I’ve been doing some work using CSS to format images on my website. While adding images to my Volume Rendering page, I noticed I was using tables to keep images in line. Using tables in that manner is not good form, so I utilized CSS to format them instead. It took a bit of time but it turned out looking great. The tricky part was setting the images to be side by side, centered, and stay within the content area. There’s no specific way to tell it to center a set of images. I had to make them “float: left”, which would end up moving the image out of the area I intended them to stay. Turns out there’s a trick, where at the end of the list of images you clear both the height and width, then it behaves.

In my research, I also discovered that I was using CSS improperly. Nothing visibly wrong. I was using “id” instead of “class”. They produce the exact same results because browsers normally don’t enforce the rule that the “id” specifier should only be used once in a page, while “class” is used multiple times.

I apologize if this sounds like greek, but check out my Photo Gallery and Volume Rendering pages to see the fruits of my labor.

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