First off, video cameras that shoot in 4K aren’t cheap, and projectors that show videos in 4K are typically the size of a small refrigerator.

I guess this last issue put another nail in the coffin and I’ll try to move on as soon as possible. What happened is that fGallery requires two files in the wp-includes folder that appear to be missing in WP2.9 and that triggered a fatal error while attempting to reactivate the plugin. Since my old galleries still require fGallery to display photos I needed a solution. And it was a simple one, I just copied gettext.php and streams.php from an older release of WordPress. It doesn’t seem to bother the new version and my galleries are working again so until I disable fGallery for good those two files are staying there.

After a few years of status quo on appenzeller-sennenhund.si I finally got the ball rolling again with a few face lifts, liposuction and botox injections. In other words I changed the look, content and structure of some sections of the website to bring it up to date :)

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Notice the use of Vista C-fonts (if you have them), general adherence to HTML strict doctype (not all sub pages have been updated yet though) and an attempt to get the entire thing off unnecessary markup. We’ll get there eventually :) //

Things are bound to change further in the coming days and weeks but nothing major is planned for the immediate future. I am hoping to eventually transfer everything over to my own server and wordpress to make things just a smidgen easier but for now it stays basically as it is.

All new content is dedicated to Hanibal (since he’s now a fully certified stud) :p and we’re ready to start showing him off anywhere there’s a chance to see a concentration of lady appenzellers. Next stop IHA St. Gallen.

For some reason fGallery plugin didn’t work as it should after I upgraded to WP2.5. Admin side of things worked the way it always did but not so up front. The photos were all there on the server but nobody could see them (unless you entered the direct URL).

Untill I clicked on update Mod ReWrite button that is (see fGallery options panel). No idea how this got messed up in the upgrade process since I never went near the plugins folder. That’s it… gallery works.

Deactivating several plugins turned out to be the solution but the curious thing is that after I activated them all back it was still working just fine. I don’t know which one might have caused it by I suspect it was DoFollow. Nothing certain though.

Anyway, the site works fine now and I’m getting used to the new look. Sometime in the near future I’ll overhaul the front end as well. The new design is currently in prototype stage so there might be some weird things happening as I begin to test the new theme.

There were probably more than that though, however with backup in the form of WPIDS and Bad Behavior I’ve been nearly spam free. Still, Akismet is by far the most effective. Don’t run your blog without it! ;)

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Most sites I’ve checked work just fine but as Murphy would have it… the most complicated one of my own doesn’t. I have no idea what goes wrong but that’s actually not the worst part of it. At first glance the site appears quite normal, no weird positioning, broken lines or silly stuff like that. I should be so lucky…nope. Instead of visible errors I have to deal with invisible ones. That in itself wouldn’t be much of a problem if the invisible part would be anything other than the navigation links. Yup, entire site navigation vanished into thin air and I have no idea why. Maybe it has something to do with floats and clearing, maybe it’s something else entirely. But I sure hope it’s only a rendering bug and not really my fault. It works fine in everything else from IE6 to FF3.

It also crashed (as in – this program has to close, send error report) when viewing this site (FERI @ Uni. MB), it has margin/padding problems with Hotmail and I had to hard reset my computer when I started to write this post in WordPress. That’s the short version of the problems I had untill now.

I’ll ignore the errors for now (since it is a beta version) but I sure hope I won’t end up worrying about yet another problematic browser that requires special attention. Other than that it looks ok ;)

Here’s how he did it

…and I guess I should go back to reading Bulletproof Web Design and Transcending CSS…

When newspapers and other print publications took their products to the Web, they were armed with what they thought was relevant design expertise. But this theretofore expertise turned to hubris when they failed to accurately recognize the constraints of this new medium. Their design and layout experience caused them to hold precious their deep columnar silo approach to sectional information presentation….

…When news main page sections are laid out in vertical columns of varying heights placed side-by-side it requires that a reader practice one of 2 irritating methods of content consumption: 1) scroll downward to scan a column’s or section’s content and then go back up to do the same with another column or section, or 2) scan horizontally across adjacent columns of differing contexts, then scroll down and repeat the process, etc…