When you display simple text in a browser, the browser will wrap the text at the edge of the page. You get maximum usage of your screen. With standard HTML, you can’t get the same behavior for a series of tables – you can choose to align them next to each other with “align=left” (and they’ll head right off the right edge of the page), or you can use default behavior, in which each subsequent table is displayed below the previous (and you waste the right side of the page).

CSS is groovy, if not a bit cryptic at times. In this case, it solves the problem perfectly – just put a [DIV] tag around each table, and set up the DIV style with [float:left]. Check out the result on my portal page. More CSS adventures to come, I’m sure…

I’ve framed Google!

After many heated discussions concerning frames, my conclusion is that either you’re a frames zealot or a frames bigot, there’s no middle ground. Well, zealots rejoice! My portal site now does Google framed searches. Type in a search in the google box, hit enter, and the results are displayed down the left pane. Click an item in the results, and the target is displayed in the right frame. It’s the only way to browse, IMHO (being a frames zealot)…

Read on for the techy details… (continued…)

Hey kiddies, welcome back! This site is now running on top of RH9 with the latest patches, and the most recent slash “R” tag, on a shiny new Athlon 1800XP system I built for peanuts. Whoop.

  • Copy out a playlist to your portable MP3 player or for a burn to CD
  • Includes a few more UGLY buttons
          (Know any artists looking for glory but not fortune?)

  • Still no active DJ’s (SLACKER!)
  • Still sloppy-skinned (SLACKER!)

    Available here (Ed: removed, see below), just unzip and run.

    Update: OK it’s getting worse, got a new version and it’s pink now…
    Update: OK the pink’s gotta go, John, what color ya want? 😛

  • My bro’s HighTechGeek PC consulting business is off and running! I am trying to help him get set up with all things linux, and we’ve got his site hosted on his wee little linux box now. What’s next? ONLY TIME WILL TELL! The sky’s the limit! 😛

    How do you get a better google rank? Link to each other!