Ummm...Suprise!

Hey everybody, just when I thhught I was done with this site, of course something started to bug me. I was all happy with it and got it working in everything. I was using Catherine's laptop to look at it, and she uses a higher resoluton on her comp than I do, I have a shitty monitor and can only go as high as 1024x768, so looking at the site its all the way to the left leaving a huge, gigantic white space....it looked really ugly and bugged the shit out of me.

So since I believe last Sat or Sun, I've been trying to get a way to redo the layout with the whole thing centered. Son of a bitch centering is annoying, something you'd think would be so simple, so obvious, has to be so difficult (or maybe it's just me). I looked at some other sites to see how they did it. One used tables, which I fucking hate. Because basically I create a box and in the box is a picture or text...technically whats inside it shouldn't be able to go outside the box...ever. But the shit wouldn't stay in there. Defying all logic driving me insane. So today I found a way to do it in my favorite way, CSS. I love style sheets. Got it all going. Makes me very happy, plus i think it makes it more spiffier.

Also I'm sure you noticed, the Archive link at the top, I've been trying to find a good way to add it, had a few ideas that were nifty but didn't work, I tried adding it to the menu, but Blogger doesn't create archive link pages anymore, just the monthly pages. Its like what good are the monthly pages if there's nowhere to get to them, since I don't believe in the Blogger sidebar. But found a way to do it pretty happy about it. So I guess those were pick-ups for Season 3.

So please enjoy Season 3...again...for the first time.

The Third Age

Thats right folks, the wait is over, TheYanni.Net Season 3 is here. I finally got it running in both Internet Explorer and Firefox exactly as I want it, took a little goofing around, but i got it. The Main area works, as do all te sections. The Cam section needs me to add content. And of course i tohught of some last minute things i want or need to add. I should have done it during pick-ups, but missed my opportunity. I need to add a link to the archives, an either on that page or the main page i want to add a search engine to search my posts.

This site is still pretty new so if any problems arrise let me know. I'd like to get all the kinks out now. But I think everything should work fine. The new design itself solves many of the problems i had with Season 2. And now I keep closing my eyes from tiredness in the middle of typing so i will take the hint.

W00t Season 3 rocks!

Production on Season 3 has Completed

Thats right currently have all the bugs fixed got everything working the way I want it so official production has completed. Now I move into Post-Production until launch. In "post" I will add in the content, which shouldn't take that long. So hopefully by next week Season 3 will be completed, and online. For a Preview, click here. And if you notice something doesn't look right tell me. Consider yourself the test audience, tell me if you like it or not, sudgestions are always welcome.

Also there might be a few problems on this version of the site, had some issues earlier. So if anything doesn't work tell me.

Trimming the fat

Sorry for all the boring Season 3 posts, I just like to document this stuff. Besides the new design my biggest goal for Season 3 is to simplify, condense, and cut the fat. Starting with the Menu, I have 10 menu listings with about 7 subareas. That needed to change so basically any area that I'm not updating is either going away, or starting from scratch.

Down the list:
- Red: The Color of My Mind & Dispatch: Digg.com News
These 2 areas will combine basically, my intent is to basically find a news story on digg, or someplace alse perhaps and write a bit about it, and try to keep doing just about every day.

- Inquiry: Ask The Yanni & Sticks: The Comic Strip
At the moment these 2 areas are being faded out. Inquiry is my personal favorite section, I will find a place for this...heck might even sort of add it to the main blogg(Just thought of that). But sadly Sticks, will be waving goodbye, might save these to put in the beginning of the revamped pics area.

- Introspective: WebCam & Retreat: Links & Affiliates: Hosted Sites
These 3 areas are being combined, and will be on the new right hand sidebar. I'll have a small version of the webcam pic(clickable to enlarge), then the trimmed down links section(I have to reasses what links I still want, links I want to add, and which links don't exist anymore.

- Ego: Read/Write/Reviews
This Section will actually be broken up to 2 on the new main menu, Articles for my reviews, which I will hopefully start adding to. And Stories for the stories I have written, which I hope to be adding to.

- Masks: Pics, Photos
Is becoming the Section called Pics. All of the pics in this section are at least, 3 to 4 years old, so I am dumping them, starting from scratch and going to try not having any catagories, just listing them newest to oldest, hopefully making it simpler.

- Origin: About The Yanni
Basically I prolly just gonna edit this again, add some new info to make it up to date and acurate, and calling it Bio.

So after all this I'm down to 5 Sections:
Main, Stories, Articles, Pics, Bio

Then the rest of it, the Webcam, Links, and affiliates all on the accesable sidebar.