Mother Puss Bucket!

I’m sorry, I just have to get this off my chest. Can someone explain to me why a validator trys to validate links in your code as well? It just makes no sense! I don’t have any control over other peoples URLs, if they use a weird character such as an ‘&’ all hell breaks loose and the page isn’t valid. As long as the tag is formatted correctly, I don’t see why the validators have to check the content of the tag as well. How am I supposed to fix it!?!?

The only solution that I’ve been able to find is to edit the URL and use ‘&’ instead of ‘&’. If the URL is just too brutal, the the only other option is to use php to hide the freakin’ URLs. If the page is viewed by the validator, then hide this content, if it’s viewed by anyone else then show it. How stupid is that? But what other choice do I have?

It just really gets under my skin and makes absolutley no sense to me. I know I’m not the only one that is frustrated by this, so I just had to share it. After having to go almost entry by entry and hide certain URLs is a major PITA (Pain In The Ass) and I just couldn’t contain it any longer.

When CSS Attacks

I’ve been feeling the urge to change the color scheme of my weblog for some time now. Although the maroon and tan style works for the most part, it’s a little washed out for my tastes. Since the site has been designed around Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), it’s fairly easy to change things around. So, I played around a little yesterday and came up with a new stylesheet, which you should be viewing now.

I’m not 100% happy with it, but I figured I’d throw it up for now just for the heck of it. I like the colors, but the dark background does make it hard to read and since this is a weblog, that’s not a good thing. I’ve flipped the colors around, but I still haven’t found a happy medium yet that balances the colors with readability.

This CSS file is far from done. I’m still working on it and tweaking it, I simply wanted to share it and change things up a bit for a few days. If you have any suggestions, or if you have a favorite web site and you like the colors used there, please post a link in the comments.

Also, while I was at it, I cleaned up the navigation bar by breaking out some of the content into its own dedicated page. It was simply getting too crowded. So, you can now find all the stuff that was moved under links.