Sharp-eyed observers may note some changes here as I’m playing with some features and customizing tools with the website.
Don’t panic if something breaks… it’s just me. 😉
OK, other than the category drop-down menu borking up the sidebar scaling (I’ll fix that eventually)… how do you like the changes?
begging for beer!! that US economy is really going downhill fast Chuck!
Jerome
heh… no I’ve actually had that “buy me a beer” widget running on the site for about 9 months… I just could not figure out how to make it appear properly and where I wanted it (I’m still not that happy with how it looks.) I usually tried to put it at the bottom of “more substantive” posts to the website – rally stories and whatnot. But it just would not work. I finally got it working though after this most recent site update. I still couldn’t make it appear on the posts that I wanted, so I stuck it in the side bar.
Oddly enough within MINUTES of me leaving it “on” for more than a few seconds to check functionality a reader “bought” me TWO beers! (Thanks Bruce!) Mind you of the $3.50 PayPal takes 40¢(!) so I don’t think I’ll get a 1:1 donation to beer ratio. 😉
I figured it would be a fun thing to put up there as I love interacting with my readers, sort of like we’re all sitting in a pub having a beer and chat… telling stories, and occasionally buying a round. I’d buy a beer for any of you folks if we ever meet! (and some of us do, “Mad Dog” and I go out for a beer about once a month.)
–chuck
PS: and yes, the economy sucks, but I’d rather not talk about that. =P
I’ve had to move back to an older and smaller screen iBook (1024 x 768) to do most of my reading of the web pages… and like another person on the list, who commented n the past, the photos can’t be scrolled right when they are too wide… and the words in side menu cover them… a bit of a bugger but I can drag the photo to the desktop and open in another app to scale it to full screen… so not the end of the world.
the rest looks OK – but the beer thing looks a little out of place to the overall style… good idea but looks a little ugly to me
keep up the good work though – always a good read
Jerome