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Why is it that I can't attend ONE DragonCon without a hurricane on my heels or in front of me? Last year, we ran into the tail end of one hurricane when we left Atlanta only to get hit by Ivan when we got back. Once again, there's Tropical Storm Katrina brewing in the Gulf with the early predictors putting it up our backdoor once again!
::sigh::
Poor R-r-rick! He was frustrated last year because he flew from Seattle to go to DragonCon with us. He stayed with his sister in Macon after the con and got caught by what I seem to recall was either the tail end of Frances or Jeanne--they lost electricity shortly after he arrived and did not have power when he left. Then he drove down to Pensacola just in time for Hurricane Ivan, and spent another week without power! He was so frustrated with the weather that he didn't make his yearly Christmas trip! He had experienced enough of the South for that year!
::faceplants::
Sometimes...I really am so incredibly dense. I'm designing a Dreamweaver template for the local company site, knowing that this template will be serving a dual purpose. The upshot of the matter is, while it doesn't matter if the template causes a scrollbar on one application, on the other application it needs to function pretty much like a Powerpoint template. Not a big deal, I have the content area set for a certain size which is editable by the user. So the person who is adding the content on the web side can remove the content area size limitation at will while when used as is, the whole thing will fit perfectly on a 1024x768 standard display without scrollbars.
So I create this lovely template, cut it to pieces for the rollovers and such, create the template, only to find out I'm 5 pixels too wide on the graphics. Such a n00b error to make! I adjust the graphic, recut, remake the template, et cetera. But a weird thing starts happening. When the template is displayed from Dreamweaver, it fits perfectly in the browser window, no scrollbars. When I generate pages from the template, however, I have both horizontal and vertical scrollbars. ARGH! I am absolutely baffled. Apparently, when I add content, the interface is expanding for no apparent reason. I even put a piece of tape on the screen and compare the width of the interface. It comes out further to the right when there is content than when there is no content. It makes no sense. The content area is fixed width. This shouldn't be possible! I beat my head against the screen for 2 hours trying to figure out if it is my CSS or some stray code somewhere causing this phenomenon. You gotta remember, I've designed a lot of templates...this is not anything new to me...
Then I finally see it. I really just want to laugh hysterically at this point...
For some reason, when I would preview the page from Dreamweaver (templates have a .dwt extension), the browser was opening in full-screen mode. When I would preview an HTML file from Dreamweaver, however, it was opening the browser the full width and height of the screen, but in WINDOWED mode. Hence, the borders are chunkier and my template was not quite fitting in the browser window.
In other words, ain't nothing wrong that clicking on the full screen icon at the upper right wouldn't fix. Malfunction was between computer and chair.
::sigh::
Poor R-r-rick! He was frustrated last year because he flew from Seattle to go to DragonCon with us. He stayed with his sister in Macon after the con and got caught by what I seem to recall was either the tail end of Frances or Jeanne--they lost electricity shortly after he arrived and did not have power when he left. Then he drove down to Pensacola just in time for Hurricane Ivan, and spent another week without power! He was so frustrated with the weather that he didn't make his yearly Christmas trip! He had experienced enough of the South for that year!
::faceplants::
Sometimes...I really am so incredibly dense. I'm designing a Dreamweaver template for the local company site, knowing that this template will be serving a dual purpose. The upshot of the matter is, while it doesn't matter if the template causes a scrollbar on one application, on the other application it needs to function pretty much like a Powerpoint template. Not a big deal, I have the content area set for a certain size which is editable by the user. So the person who is adding the content on the web side can remove the content area size limitation at will while when used as is, the whole thing will fit perfectly on a 1024x768 standard display without scrollbars.
So I create this lovely template, cut it to pieces for the rollovers and such, create the template, only to find out I'm 5 pixels too wide on the graphics. Such a n00b error to make! I adjust the graphic, recut, remake the template, et cetera. But a weird thing starts happening. When the template is displayed from Dreamweaver, it fits perfectly in the browser window, no scrollbars. When I generate pages from the template, however, I have both horizontal and vertical scrollbars. ARGH! I am absolutely baffled. Apparently, when I add content, the interface is expanding for no apparent reason. I even put a piece of tape on the screen and compare the width of the interface. It comes out further to the right when there is content than when there is no content. It makes no sense. The content area is fixed width. This shouldn't be possible! I beat my head against the screen for 2 hours trying to figure out if it is my CSS or some stray code somewhere causing this phenomenon. You gotta remember, I've designed a lot of templates...this is not anything new to me...
Then I finally see it. I really just want to laugh hysterically at this point...
For some reason, when I would preview the page from Dreamweaver (templates have a .dwt extension), the browser was opening in full-screen mode. When I would preview an HTML file from Dreamweaver, however, it was opening the browser the full width and height of the screen, but in WINDOWED mode. Hence, the borders are chunkier and my template was not quite fitting in the browser window.
In other words, ain't nothing wrong that clicking on the full screen icon at the upper right wouldn't fix. Malfunction was between computer and chair.
