What? Yes, I set up a podcast for fandom.com. Chase Masterson does these fantastic interviews with folks in the sci-fi industry for “thefandom” and they have them in mp3 format. I couldn’t find their podcast…Apparently, they don’t have one yet…so I wrote one. I sure they don’t mind. (It’s free publicity!)
In case you’re wondering what a “podcast” is, in short, it’s a way for publishers to distribute audio media content (like radio shows) through RSS/XML subscriptions. What this means is that you can “subscribe” to a podcast XML feed using iTunes for example, and iTunes will download the latest media content from your subscription to your desktop computer or iPod, thus the amalgam of “iPod” and “broadcasting”. It was in part invented by a radio DJ I used to listen to as a kid.
Each month has its own header image. I think they turned out pretty good.
I hate having to change my code just for IE.
The link to the active section in the main menu used to be highlighted using id=”currentmenulink”. Pretty standard stuff. It works fine….until you try to give each “current page link” unique class attributes and use CSS to give them unique backgrounds or images, like so:
a.UniqueLinkClassName1#currentmenulink {…}
a.UniqueLinkClassName2#currentmenulink {…}
a.UniqueLinkClassName3#currentmenulink {…}
…
or so:
a#currentmenulink.UniqueLinkClassName1 {…}
a#currentmenulink.UniqueLinkClassName2 {…}
a#currentmenulink.UniqueLinkClassName3 {…}
…
Both of those methods work fine Firefox and Mozilla, but IE will only recognize and parse the FIRST entry from the CSS file/section and will just ignore the rest. I actually had to change the order they were written to notice this.
I can’t believe I had to change something AGAIN just for IE.
The menu generator now adds a unique number to the tag’s ID just so the CSS is backwards compatible for IE….yes..”backwards compatible”…because that’s exactly what Microsoft Internet Explorer is: Backwards!!!
#menu #mainmenuitems ul li a#currentmenulink1 {…}
#menu #mainmenuitems ul li a#currentmenulink2 {…}
#menu #mainmenuitems ul li a#currentmenulink3 {…}
…
…so I thought why not take a break and change the site layout to match what i’ve been doing…
