30th September, 2007
House and Hive
Sunday, 9:37 am in Geeking
New layout up at v-s.net for those of you who have real browsers. You won’t get it in IE6 because it uses ten tonnes of 24-bit PNGs, and it won’t show in IE7 (I think) either because, well, I don’t have IE7 and I can’t be arsed testing it.
So, transparent PNGs and Century Gothic abuse; yay! It’s also got a supper-fun happy rotating theme image; clear-cache refresh1 to see different characters. I thought it was about time I went back to a layout featuring my own art. Go me.
In other news, Corinne has (as far as I’m aware) officially become the first person to use vs.hive. So this is the part where I gush like the gushing fangirl that I am and plug her shamelessly. Click the link, y’all.
Two issues that have come up from this:
The first one is: Yes, I will be writing an affiliates management system. This is going to be a module/plug-in and not part of the main code because it will require an additional table in the database. I haven’t yet decided exactly how I’m going to implement modules, but when I do, the actual code for the affiliates system isn’t particularly difficult (it’s mostly recycling). I have to paint my house this week, but look out for the update in the weeks following that. After Affiliates, the other ideas I have for modules include News, Code Management+ and Collective.
The second issue is; yes, vs.hive uses HTML Strict with UTF-8 encoding. The files in the zip should all be encoded correctly, but if you edit them in some text editors, it will lose this and you’ll get nonsense characters appearing in lieu of »s. There are a couple of fixes for this:
- You can simply remove the encoding. Change the line
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">inheader.inc.php. You can either remove the; charset=utf-8bit, or simply delete the line all together. - Change the angled quotes to something else. I think they’re all in the CSS file and the header.
- Download a text editor that handles conversion to UTF-8 and use that; most decent text editors will have this option stashed away somewhere… even Notepad! In Notepad, go
File > Save Asand make sure Encoding: is set to UTF-8 (it defaults to ANSI).
So, yeah.
And finally, like I alluded to above, I have this week off in order to paint my house. I spent a good deal of yesterday washing ceilings (which is hard) and sanding the gloss surface off the upstairs doors. I’ve decided sanding doors is the worst job in the universe; I blew my nose afterwards and paint came out. Yes, you read that right, folks; I’d spent the last couple of hours breathing in fine paint dust, which had in turn been percolating in my mucus. No matter how ew you think that is, believe me, it’s worse from this end. To be honest, I’m not sure if I’m more worried about the paint itself or the fact that it’s lacquered with 30 years worth of cigarette smoke. I’ve still got a low-grade headache this morning from it, so I think when I go back out there it’ll be Masks-a-Go-Go all the way.
Oh, and my right arm is aching with the kind of RSI I haven’t had for ages.
Hard fucking work.
On the plus side, dad took me out to Bunnings and bought me some garden stuff, including a hose. It’s black and silver. BOW IN TERROR TO MY GOTH HOSE!!! Mwahahahahaha!!!!!!1oneetc.
- Ctrl+Shirt+R on Windows Firefox. ^
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Woah groovy new layout! I love that drawing on the side.
I heard there are some fixes you can use for showing transparent pngs in IE. There’s a Javascript fix: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ and http://www.alistapart.com/stories/pngopacity/
There are other ones such as http://koivi.com/ie-png-transparency/ as alternatives.
I’ve tried them before but I never managed to get them working for me, but it might for you!
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I love that drawing on the side.
Which one? I think there’s currently four in the rotation: one of my WoW character Ulfrun, one of Loki, one of Loki and Miriah and one of bobble-head style Miriah. I need to do more decent art so I can have more up.
The layout also uses a bunch of CSS that IE6 doesn’t like and, well, I really can’t be bothered writing especially for IE’s broken implementation of the DOM.
sk.log is written so it will serve different layouts to people based on what works with their browser, so people using IE will get the old blue Zangamarsh one. -
Ah I saw the bobble-headed one I think. Adorable. :3 The others are way cool too, you’re good with perspective!
Hmm when I use IE6 I still see this new layout! What a sucky browser, your layout is totally unproblematic in Firefox and Opera.
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I force myself to draw foreshortened a lot of the time because it’s, well, hard and I’m not very good at it. Practice practice practice!
But the bobble-head style is my favourite, I think; it’s really easy to sketch, and always turns out so cute.
Hmm when I use IE6 I still see this new layout!
Seriously? Damn; the detector thinger might be broken. >
Although, if you’ve got something that changes your Browser Type string, then yeah; you’ll get this layout. Thanks for letting me know; I’ll give it a look. -
Painting the house is never fun. We just repainted half the house a few months back completely orange… it looks cool, but it took forever.
Nice implementation of transparency with the artwork. I did notice that you can slide to the right, and that sort of looks odd, but meh, whatever floats your boat.
Oh, and great job on vs.hive. I haven’t gotten a chance to really look at it too much, but I suppose it could be of some use sometime in the future.
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I did notice that you can slide to the right, and that sort of looks odd, but meh, whatever floats your boat.
My advice to you? Get a bigger monitor. There should be no x-axis scroll on regular pages on a monitor with a post- 1999 resolution.
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Ooo
Love the layout.
Aww. I feel special, but yes. I just love it.
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D’aww… thank you.
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fanbase converter?
I’m just wondering if there will be a phpfanbase converter for vs.hive?
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Ask and you shall receive.
It won’t be difficult (it’s just adapting the Enth converters), but I’m not sure if I’ll get time to do one this week. Early next week at the latest.
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Actually, scratch that; I can’t write a converter because I can’t get hold of the schema for phpFanBase.
I’d need someone who actually has it to do a dump of the table for me.
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No, I’m telling lies again; I found an old phpFanBase v2.1 zip file on my computer (hooray for never deleting anything… ever).
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Goodness… I didn’t expect a converter so soon. Thank you
I do have a problem though. I can login fine to the admin panel but I can’t do anything as it takes me to the login page every time I attempt to do anything. I’m assuming it’s how the urls are setup but I just wanted to check with you first! -
It was literally two mintues’ code; I did it this morning while I was waiting for my husband to get out of the shower.
I can login fine to the admin panel but I can’t do anything as it takes me to the login page every time I attempt to do anything.
That’s weird. The only way I can replicate this error – or think in my head how it could be occurring – is by disabling cookies. Can you check your cookies to make sure you’ve got something from your site? IIRC it should be called whatever your
$_HIVEID['id']value is set to, and the value should be a hash key. This problem might come up if you’ve set your hive ID to something that PHP doesn’t like as a variable name (e.g. it has non alpha-numeric characters in it), or if your hive Id name clashes with another cookie the site is trying to set. -
It is working now! I deleted all cookies and logged in again and it worked. Thanks
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you love my well groomed self -
I do! It is smooth and silky and pleasant smelling!
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I have vs.hive up and running here so far:
http://www.j-lee.org/fan/panera/I still have to customize.. obviously
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Yay!
Feedback (and bugs!) is always appreciated.
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Layout eeees goood.
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Thanks. I knocked it up kinda quickly and there are a lot of… imperfections in it that have been driving me crazy. >
I think I’ve almost got it. Almost.