Blog FeedHappenings
I thought that, seeing as I’m bored, I might give an update on things which are happening around the place. First and foremost, the site is actually back online. Our extended downtime was due to some pretty hideous bad luck. One server had problems, so we moved to another which was previously very stable, and as soon as we moved, that server ran into some serious errors that required everything on it to be reinstalled. Everything seems to be fine now though, and it should be stable from here on out.
Secondly, I’ve taken the chance to make a few tweaks I was planning on doing. First of all, I’ve replaced the aqua colour on hovered links with a light blue, as the aqua didn’t quite seem to fit properly. This goes for the forums as well. Secondly, as the thumbnail shows, the comment textarea can now be enlarged for all of those who feel the need when writing very big posts, like DarkFlow. The grey text in those textareas is also now darker for you IE users, who’s browser doesn’t blacken the text when typing.
In other news, I’m not so happy with my exam results, Pseudo is feeling better after being quite sick over the past while, and Wolfanoz, who’s not been around in ages, has found his way here after a long time with no typing.
18th December | Reply
This enlarge/shrink textarea thing is jawsome
I havent seen it before, and to be honest, I cant see why because every forum should have it.
also, you have a typo:
19th December | Reply
Indeed, enlarge and shrink textarea is incredible. I would love to see this feature on some forums and what not (It would also be great for updating aelon blogs, that text box is a little thin).
I just finished my last final yesterday but my college next sends exam specific results, only final grades. If I want my exam results I have to seek out the professor and ask them for it, which I usually don’t do because as long as the final grade is to my liking I could care less what its made of.
Although I stayed up reallllly late the night before my last exam due to unavoidable reasons and had to consume ridiculous amounts of coffee the following morning. While I was taking the test my hands were shaking like crazy, it was awesome in a way. I can barely remember what I wrote thouigh.
Oh and I enlarged and shrank the text box several times while writing this.
19th December | Reply
Oh yeah, I also updated the Links page so now the top shows a more promintent link, which cycles through a list of links we actually have badges for. At the moment we only cycle through five, so I’ll work on getting more up. We could probably do with having more links generally, I think.
20th December | Reply
Having literally just uninstalled FireFox to switch back to IE, I have to say I have no idea what you’re talking about when you say the text here is darkened. It looks no different to the shades in your little article header image.
I also see you’ve still got the “Stop IE” thing going. Brought a smile to my dial. I liked FireFox, I really did, but I’ve seriously cut back on the sites I visit to the point where I’m just trying to watch streams that won’t let me view them outside of Internet Explorer (such as the website for The Apprentice 2) or download some random crap using an outdated… thing (FilePlanet, unless I’m missing something).
I have to say, though, while I’m completely off-topic that I miss tabbed browsing. I keep clicking links with the mouse wheel and grumbling under my breath. And I miss the download manager. IE hasn’t stuffed me around like it did back in the day yet, but there was just something so reassuring about saving a movie trailer in FireFox.
I expect in a weeks time I’ll be back on the bandwagon.
Getting back to the matters mentioned here, though, what was your UAI? I don’t know if that’s the thing I mean, my knowledge of the education system outside of VTAC and the ENTER are limited (to be honest, I don’t really comprehend them, either) but I think you know what I mean. I really dig the additions, there’s something very cool about that textbox resizing. I, too, enlarged and shrank the box several times whist typing. I hope the novelty never wears off.
20th December | Reply
Yeah, UAI = ENTER, mine was 82.45, which was a lot better than I was expecting after completely screwing up my extensions maths. It’s always maths… but UAI doesn’t really have much to do with anything once you’ve done your first year at uni, I don’t think.
As for tabbed browsing, try looking at Avant or Maxthon. They’re browsers that are built off IE, but they also have extra features like tabs.
25th December | Reply
Well, it didn’t take long, but I’m back on FireFox now.
I caved to it’s majesty a lot quicker than I thought I would.