Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Head down into 1.01

Since the release of LRB Portfolio, you might think I had a break after the development time? Well no actually. It was straight into 1.01 bug fixing and feature requests. The main bug was the menu going over too far in IE, but that's now fixed. There was also some instant update issues with some of the menu items. I replaced the variable to solve that. Images Per Gallery had a px after it. Now removed.
As to features, I've a basic Flash music player added. I also made a little music loop in Reason to demo it. Because it's Flash, it won't preview on PC in Lua galleries. That's an IE limitation due to the way it handles plugins like flash. It does show with Preview in Browser though.
Other feature requests done are: Option to remove the Home page link. Done, but you have to start on the home page.
Page Title: you can have a different title on the title bar, rather than Site title, which is used on the main page.
Logo Top Gap: Those worried that the gallery was too far down now have the option of setting this height from 0-200px (default is still 100px).
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In Site Info I've added headers to each section for clarity.
My latest is in the hands of testers and the file will be updated when all the new bugs introduced with the features are sorted out. Previous purchasers will be able to redownload. Those that used up the quota can email in for a refill.
I don't have a time on this, because I don't know what they might find!


Update 4/9/08: I'm putting the music player on hold to get out a dot releases with more important fixes and cleanup. The music code requires the use of a) flash and b) frames, neither of which are previewing for me in XP. I've mentioned the Flash issue above, but the frames issue is a little more subtle and requires more thought..
Testers will get a drop shortly and hopefully give the okay.. Sorry it has to be this way, or you'd only be complaining more if it was broken!


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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Cleanup.

I've given the blog template a bit of an early Spring clean and used the newer functions of Blogger to add labels to the posts to help navigate.
Update: Randy in comments sees a brownish red against black for the titles. I've the content section set for a dark read titles against grey. I took the colours from the Monochromatic custom colours in Kuler. It all looks fine to me on Safari, Firefox and Opera. It may be possible that Randy is seeing a cached version of the site. Is anyone else seeing this? Here's what I'm seeing:

Update #2 As my intention was to have the titles mirror the word Blog in the Site Logo, I decided that rather than darken the text I'd go back and darken the content area instead. The red text was unnerving to me against the grey. I like the blog red (Cayenne) and am happy to use John's suggested rendering. Hopefully it looks okay against the dark grey (rather than the lighter grey) now. Vote in the comments below :)

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