blog eventually :))

--All (design etc) errors on this site are mine--

Background info:

Initially, I wanted to have an website and a blog but, mostly, the majority of people seem to separate the two by having different sites / addresses. I thought it would be a good idea to integrate the two together. I also disliked reading a blog and scrolling, scrolling, scrolling to the bottom only to scroll, scroll, scroll to the top (all the panels were fixed) to find the link (or whatever) that caught my attention. Try it yourself: scroll to the bottom of most blogs and ask yourself, 'where now/what now?' The Internet is supposed to be about connectivity/information. I'm sure there's an easier way to navigate but it was not intuitive/obvious to me.

Looking at a random selection of blogs, I found a few ideas* that I really liked and, as a mini (now major!) self-learning project, I am trying to blend them together with my ideas on design (ahem) to come up with a Super Web Integrated Blog Blend (TM). Everyone else can do swish but only I can do SWIBB! It'll enter the world consciousness as a new word/design concept (AHEM)!!

The blog part of the SWIBB-powered isadub.com will have to underpinned by wordpress. I may, and I stess may, attempt to do a wordpress theme but that will depend on whether I'm still alive by the time I've fixed everything (I'm now 34). I'm going to pretend I understand the jargon but I'm really not looking forward to separating the content from the presentation.

* http://virtuelvis.com/gallery/css3/target/interface.html

* Mark Schenk's scaled background image

* The tiny wordpress theme as found on maura.com

Current problems: i.e., help if you can

1. If you select a window and drag it in such a way that the bottom border of the selected window dissappears off the bottom of the screen, you can't release the window and it follows the mouse around. Try it and see. To reset, you have to reload the page.

2. The 'slider bar' in the main blog window is 'stuck'! You can't move it. The top, bottom, and left margins move around freely but not the bloody right margin.

3. Must find the technical name for the 'slider bar' in the main blog window!!

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For those without a sense of humour

SWIBB is not a trademark! I hope not because it took me 30 secs to think it up. I don't want to spend another 30sec thinking up another acronym. If it exists and you own the trademark, you must be really p***ed at the money you spent hiring all that expensive help!!

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http://virtuelvis.com/gallery/css3/target/interface.html .....There's more - scroll down!!

This is just a little experiment to see if a window-like behavior could be achieved without any use of Javascript.

Here, the CSS3 pseudo-class :target to change the window stacking order, so the active window is the topmost window. Try clicking on one of the three first icons below, and if your browser supports :target, the appropriate window should light up.

This demo has been tested in Mozilla, 1.5. Safari is supposed to support :target, but I cannot verify this. If you can provide feedback for this, feel free to contact me.

New: Now with draggable windows

I've made added a few lines of script that should enable you to drag the windows around to your own liking.

Since the windows are transparent, the performance is rather abysmal on slower computers, but I'm keeping it this way, since I just wanted to show that “it can be done”.

The script is 58 lines, with comments, and should be easy enough to understand if you're Javascript savvy.

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WATCH OUT - This is the end. The very end. CRASH.BANG.WALLOP. OUCH!!

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