The Interface Is Nailed Down
Okay, the interface is nailed down pretty well. I'm not set on colors and such, but the layout and logical ordering is fine.
Of course, I am frustrated with the mixed support for CSS1, which is, after all, a six-year-old recommendation! Navigator 6, Opera 5, and Explorer 5.5 (Windows) are all pretty good, at this point. Unfortunately, Explorer 5.1 (Macintosh), while overall one of the most compliant browsers, still has a really nasty float{} bug that totally destroys any attempt at floating columns of text in any but the most simple layout. I may just offer an alternative stylesheet or two, but for now I'm done with that side of the development until I get the data flowing better.
Which, by the way, is going nicely. I've got PHP talking to MySQL, pulling headlines and summaries into a nice webzine blurblike page, building nav lists of recent authors and subjects, etc., etc., etc.
Still to do:
RSS import;
RSS export;
Publishing static pages;
Session management;
Discussion boards;
Author's input screens;
Other stuff.
Yeah, there's a way to go. But I've spent a long time developing a strategy, architecture, framework and design schema for everything, so things are now moving along without much in the way of speedbumps.
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Of course, I am frustrated with the mixed support for CSS1, which is, after all, a six-year-old recommendation! Navigator 6, Opera 5, and Explorer 5.5 (Windows) are all pretty good, at this point. Unfortunately, Explorer 5.1 (Macintosh), while overall one of the most compliant browsers, still has a really nasty float{} bug that totally destroys any attempt at floating columns of text in any but the most simple layout. I may just offer an alternative stylesheet or two, but for now I'm done with that side of the development until I get the data flowing better.
Which, by the way, is going nicely. I've got PHP talking to MySQL, pulling headlines and summaries into a nice webzine blurblike page, building nav lists of recent authors and subjects, etc., etc., etc.
Still to do:
RSS import;
RSS export;
Publishing static pages;
Session management;
Discussion boards;
Author's input screens;
Other stuff.
Yeah, there's a way to go. But I've spent a long time developing a strategy, architecture, framework and design schema for everything, so things are now moving along without much in the way of speedbumps.
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