This evening I sat down to do some more work on the Starship Cat Press website. My primary focus was on getting the mobile-devices CSS fixed so that the site would be usable on smartphones. However, I also wanted to get it set up so that it would automatically serve as https, even if the original request was http, and to deal with some issues with ( Read more... )

I finally have the desktop version of the Starship Cat Press website pretty much beaten into shape. The borders don't want to show up properly in Firefox, but this seems to be a peculiarity of Firefox, since they show up in Safari and Chrome ( Read more... )

I was trying to get my job hunter site redone for HTTPS, mobile-friendly design and the new AdSense format. It was just too big, too complex, and too overwhelming for a first effort ( Read more... )

After struggling for some time to figure out what the heck is going on, I finally decided it was time to stop letting the best be the enemy of the good enough, and decided to put together the naval history website and get it uploaded. It is now up at navalhistory.leighkimmel.com, so you can see how it looks all right in Safari, but in Firefox the ( Read more... )

I'd been working on some CSS for a couple of websites I needed to rebuild from their old, pre-CSS forms on now-dead websites. I had them looking pretty good, but had to set them aside for the press of other projects.

In the meantime, I upgraded to Firefox 26, and now that I get back to the website rebuilds, it breaks my CSS. The header background ( Read more... )

Today I was trying to get another of my websites up, and was having all kinds of trouble with it. I'd customized an open-source template I'd found on Free Layouts, and it had been working fine. But when I went to upload it, suddenly all the graphics disappeared. I thought that it had to do with the server-side includes, which don't work properly ( Read more... )