Note to everyone:

I’m beginning to use PHP on my pages, so all the pages related to this portion of my site, i.e. this WEBLOG, are now in .php

Any previous pages that you’ve saved links to are still on the server, for now, but if you REALLY want to be sure and save the link properly, do it again, from the .php version of the page. How to do that? Here’s how:

Go to the .html page you have a link for. In your browser’s address bar delete the “html” at the end of the URL and replace it with “php”.

a basic example would be:

OLD HTML WAY:

www.pastoralfarms.com/weblog/index.html

NEW PHP WAY:

www.pastoralfarms.us

Just change what comes after the “.” [dot]

You can see one the reasons for this, on the side bar, look under “Latest from Photo Log”.

It’s the first step in further development of this site –A testing place for other sites I run, as well.

I’ve worked on my stylesheet and templates for comments … and I’ve worked out all the problems.

One fix I heard of was to make the .blog class in the stylesheet to not reflect any background color. [i.e. take out: "background:#FFF"]

I did that, and it helped, but the whole gray bordering made the comments look horrible, all chopped up, text all appeared, but ugly.

Also, the header in the comments reacted differently in IE and in NN so, that prompted me finally to fix it all in one fell swoop.

Stylesheet body margin was set to 20px all sides. I made it 0px and put in a 20px gray border. Took out the .blog background color as stated above. In my Main Template I made my comment pop up java to make a 500×500 box, instead of the 480×480 it originally had. In each Comment template I made the “column 50″ for the “Comment:” box to be “48″.

I also added “position:relative;left:0px; top:0px;right:0px;” to the #banner-commentspop id in the stylesheet.

I think that’s all I did. This made my comments look right, and the comment box not to overflow in either IE or NN and the banner heading to fill the space correctly as well.

After all that, the gray background on the Main Index was only a border, so next to the blog on the right side, was plain white. So I tweaked border colors, and added the gray as a right border for #content, and as the top border for #links. All in all, it’s more acceptable of a look, and the dissapearing text is history. AND I didn’t have to change my page look too much. I like it this way, and through this process I learned how to make a div look as though it’s encased in another colored div. COOL!

Our DSL has been acting up the past three days, including today.

It just came on a few minutes ago for the first time today. Yesterday it was out a lot and the it all started the day before that.

The problem is … I have no idea. The troubleticket that Alltel, our host, had for the first complaint checked out with no problem — as our DSL came on by itself sometime before they checked the troubleticket.

Then later, boom, it went out again. The guy on the phone this time pretty much said it would come on and stay on when it was fixed. Well, is it fixed now? Or just one of the flukey things.

I dialed-up once today, and once yesterday. Yuck. I have no desire to do that often, so once a day if DSL is out for many hours, fine, but I don’t do anyting but check mail pretty much.

So now I’m on a rampage to write this, my egg report, which I already did, and load up more older photos I’ve been working on for my Photo Log. I was in the middle of entering posts for some of them yesterday, when DSL went out … so I never got that series finished for the Log. I have more now, all of Victoria from May 1999. Cute baby. Hopefully I’ll get them up tonight! I have plenty of other work to do online as well, and it’s stuff that requires me to be online. Not fun to be off-line when there is stuff to do, not just surfing, but actual work, though not for pay. Work is work, in any case, to me at least.