30 Sep 2003 | Matthew Oliphant (formerly fajalar) said...

Great job this month, Brad!

30 Sep 2003 | Mike said...

I just realized the first sentence of your post rhymes ;)

It was cool finding out that I could literally hit a golf ball from my house to where you used to live, great job!

Mike

30 Sep 2003 | ryan said...

looks great. you could put your side menu in an unordered list and make the whole menu-area clickable. Here's an example I built recently using code from zeldman, simplebits, etc...

01 Oct 2003 | Paperhead said...

Damn it Brad, that page on Betty nearly had me crying too close to my own childhood.

It's a lovely blog and distinguished by the fact that you write very well. I hope that there's more to be added to it and I am going to be checking back on that.

All I'd say about the layout is lose the background colour change on hover, it's not needed with the underline and the pages will look all the better for it.

01 Oct 2003 | Brad Hurley said...

Damn it Brad, that page on Betty nearly had me crying too close to my own childhood.

Wow, I'm sorry to hear it. I linked to that page about Betty (my evil stepmother) from only a couple of places on the site, as I didn't want the site to be viewed as yet another memoir of a child with an abusive parent. There are enough of those already. I even debated about whether to put it in there at all. But in the end I decided it was an important part of the story.

And thanks to ryan and paperhead for the layout suggestions, both of which I'll implement. I've also found a few weird things in the code that I need to delete...I hand-coded my previous sites but decided that should learn how to use Dreamweaver this time and it appears to have added a few strange bits of code in the head that I wasn't aware of.

01 Oct 2003 | Paperhead said...

Didn't mean it negatively Brad the passages about Betty aren't overdone and they absolutely belong there in the context of the site.

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If you look through your Dreamweaver folder (wherever it's installed on your machine) you'll find a folder called 'Configuration'. If you root through it you should be able to find files relevant to the bits of code that it inserts into your files and amend what it inserts there it saves having to make multiple changes by hand later if you have it insert the right stuff to begin with. There are tutes galore to be found on Google on doing this.

01 Oct 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Brad: Your site looks inviting, and I *hope* to get through it when I have some time.

But in the meantime: have you ever read "Great Possessions: an Amish Farmer's Journal" by David Kline? One of the best I've ever read. If I remember correctly, the forward is by Wendell Berry (a true American hero if you ask me).

01 Oct 2003 | Brad Hurley said...

Didn't mean it negatively Brad

I just meant that I'm sorry to hear you had to live through something like that too. It was a tough time in my life, although I suppose I really don't have much to complain about...I didn't grow up in Uganda, or blind and deaf, or anything like that, which would have been much more challenging than anything my stepmother threw my way.

On the DW code...the weird stuff I see is inserted around the code to import the stylesheet; I don't think it's necessary and it seems like IE6 isn't caching the stylesheet but instead loads it again with each page, so I'll take out that extra code with a site-wide search and replace, and see if that solves the problem.

And Don, nope I haven't read that one, and I'm a Wendell Berry fan too so I'll check it out...thanks for the recommendation!

01 Oct 2003 | Paperhead said...

Brad, the CDATA construct around the stylesheet is a good idea if you are using an internal stylesheet (in case you use > or anything like that), but for a linked stylesheet it's really not needed.

03 Oct 2003 | Don Schenck said...

Darn you Casino ... HOW did you access my "Favorites" list?

:-)

28 Nov 2004 | click said...

6241 Very well said chappy.

31 Jan 2005 | compatelius said...

bocigalingus must be something funny.