Wishful Thinking

Spent a lot of time over the last few days looking into open source cms solutions. Frankly it looks like Drupal, Zope or Joomla. Even more frankly it looks like as much as I have the desire to get familiar with at least one of these (probably Joomla as of the moment) I have absolutely no need for it with the Something Else site, and so it’s not worth taking up the hard-drive of this (awful) pc or the hosting server. Something to look into as and when I start on the next site. Ditto php for the above.

What has been very useful though, is jQuery, which is a free java-script framework that I only got around to downloading this evening, but is already clearly about to be very useful, If only for being quietly exciting. The possibilities are clearly endless, and you can quite see why it’s popular.

Google analytics started returning results earlier, which is the first time I’ve had it do so to a live site rather than a test beta, lots of incredibly brief visits from Germany. Which is nice. I expect entirely artificial though. Still, it’s nice to know that someone/thing other than me is looking.

Managed to solve the background-color problems with the a:hover, which were due to what, in retrospect were obvious mistakes in the cascading of the css. The current solution is still relatively ugly, and the ability to set different a:hover css properties to text or image links without using what are frankly needless divs would be nice. As would a way to use text pop-ups for image links, although I suspect that the problems with this are a lot more to do with the intrinsic ugliness of the current solution to the above problem than any specific fault. As of right now, it works. Just. I may use a per-tem java-script solution for a) functionality and b) adding jQuery in a useful setting.