Well, we’re PARTWAY there, anyhow. There was a bug whereby in IE and some other browsers, there was a gap between the title image and the menu. This SEEMS to just have been an error with dealing with the PHP include, from what I can tell. So, rather than do a PHP include for the top title (which sucks, because with includes I can change one file and it automatically updates everything) I’ve just changed it back to a simple IMG tag. Looks fine in IE now… dunno about Opera. Safari users, I’m still working on you. The reason the background of certain parts of the page looks darker is because Safari apparently has problems with PNG gamma, which is amazingly odd, since those PNG files have the gamma info stripped out. I really don’t know what I can do to fix this. There are a few other Safari errors, but we’ll work them out one at a time.
I’ve realized after looking at things that the page looks a bit bare when there’s no tower ad showing (it looks much more balanced with it). I’m not intending to waste space… and that looks really stupid without the tower there. I may find something to fill the space when I don’t have a tower ad up, and I’ll be adding in my own tower ads from time to time as well. A note to the people using 800×600 who complain that they have to scroll now: I’m sorry. I really am. But I’ve got a lot of stuff I’m going to be displaying in the future, and 800 pixels just isn’t enough space to do it in. 800×600 is the new 640×480, unfortunately.
The characters link now works in the JS menu. Also, I’ve added a DOCTYPE to the page, as well as changing the encoding away from Shift-JIS. (WHY dreamweaver was using that as a default, I’ll never know.) The one change that I think is extremely positive, and thanks to Michiel for suggesting it, is that the pages are now compressed with GZIP, and load a good deal faster than they used to. It’s just the HTML, but hey… it works.
In response to the people who tell me “need to stop using tables, switch to CSS layout”, i say, GREAT! Okay! I’d love to! TELL ME HOW. I can’t seem to find any resources for the CSS novice that give instructions on how to switch away from table-based thinking to a CSS streamlined approach. I know nothing of this CSS of which you speak, other than the basics of a stylesheet. Help me out, peeps. :D
That’s all for now. Got too many errands to run. :D