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Archive for June, 2004
Sleeping Angels
Jun 15
Peter at the Zoo
Jun 15
Stephanie and the kids went to the Franklin Park Zoo
today. My aunt Gail works there, so it’s nice to go and see relatives. Peter is here with lots of eggs. He likes eggs.
Alexander’s Truck
Jun 15
Lex likes to play with all of his brother’s toys, especially the colorful ones. He’s really starting to hold himself up pretty well at five months.
Hooray!
Jun 8
Hooray! I got a card! Look at it … it comes apart! I can just imagine what’s going through his brain when he opens things up. It’s fun to live vicariously through your kids.
Cheerleader
Jun 8
I like to call this one the Cheerleader. He loves to toss around wrapping paper like pom-poms … much like most toddlers I know. After all, it’s really about how much noise you can make, not how pretty it is.
Prayer Book
Jun 8
We just took this book with us to mass this past weekend. It was a pretty good substitute for the missal an music book that Peter likes to tear through.
Let Them Eat Cake
Jun 8
We never gave him cake before this … honest! He learned quickly what birthday cake was all about.
Aunt and Mor Mor Mor
Jun 8
This is Annie, now due with her first child, Stephanie and a rambunctious Peter, and Peter’s Mor Mor Mor (great grandmother).
Binda Family
Jun 8
This is Peter’s mother’s family. That’s Peter on the left, Winnifred holding Peter, PJ, and then, of course, Peter’s beautiful mom, Stephanie. Peter, the grandpa, took quite a few of these pictures … but obviously not this one.
Peter in the Living Room
Jun 8
More of the ‘Peter’s First Birthday’ series. Here he is hanging out with the big folks, entertaining us with his natural charm.
Peter and Papa
Jun 8
This is Peter and I in our matching polo shirts and khakis. We actually have a few sets of matching outfits. This was taken when his family was over for his first birthday, back at our old house on DeCota Drive.
Expanding Menus
Jun 6
So, Henry asks me about how to do this expanding menu thing. Here’s how I was able to get this done. First, there are two ways to make things invisible using CSS. One is to set the visibility property of an object, the other is to set the display property. Setting the visibility to hidden will make it invisible, but the object will still take up the same amount of space. So, a ten line paragraph set to hidden will show ten lines of white space. Setting it to display: none will remove it from the whole flow, as if it weren’t there. Since I wanted the menus beneath to move up if one is collapsed, I chose the display method.
Next, I needed some icons. The Netscape Devedge sidebars have this whole expanding menu tree, but I only wanted one level. They use nice + and – icons too, so I stole those and edited them to remove the extra space around them. A javascript method uses those as links to open and close the menus.
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New Design
Jun 3
I hope people enjoy this design, I had fun coming up with it. There are so many good ideas out there that it’s hard to settle on just one. I think I’ll do some extra work and come up with an alternate design based on another one that I really enjoy.
This one was based on the Deco design by Marc Trudel, one of many at the CSS Zen Garden. The one that really looks like fun is the Golden Age Comics one. Although the design is borrowed from Marc Trudel, I significantly modified his css to obtain the effects I wanted. He used background images everywhere, while I used pure css to define colors, borders, etc. If I add any images, it will be a header one that tries to solidify the site. Right now, I think it’s pretty, but lacks a focus.
I also really enjoyed coming up with the open/close icons and code. I never really did find anything that met my needs out there in the world of javascript, so I rolled my own system. I have a menu object constructor that has a method for toggling the menu block on and off, one for displaying it on initialization, and a cookie check to remember what you had opened/closed so it would restore the menus to that state when you come back. At least I think it’s cool, and that’s what really counts.
Another coolio thing is that I have a menu block for upcoming photo galleries. I’m using the Global Listings get shorty download free
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MT plugin to list the categories from a separate photo blog. Right now, there’s only one picture of Peter in there from his first birthday. I have a bunch more to put up and the design of that page needs some work too.
Now that my site is in somewhat decent shape (doesn’t validate against anything though … bummer), I can start returning my emails that I’ve neglected for so long.
