Visit or die! (and some design babbling)
First of all, I want to mention that porn referral spam sucks so much ass. I'm not talking about weblog spam comments. I'm talking about when I go to view my web stats, and I see what sites have been linking to my site, and all I see is porno porno porno. It's annoying. I don't mind porn, but since ReadorDie.org has NOTHING to do with bestiality or incest, I don't want to see any referrals with "xxx" in it. I went ahead and blocked SEVENTY porn-related sites from accessing my site, but I figure it's a losing battle. I already got rid of my guestbook because the same porno-troll bot keeps signing it, even though I've blocked so many groups of IPs and ISPs.
But enough unpleasantry.
After over a year, I updated ReadorDie.org. It has a nice summer layout and some fresh content. It took me a while to come up with a new design because I wanted to do XHTML 1.0 Strict-validated layouts and I was stuck forever on a layout because it wouldn't look right in IE. All the other themes aren't available because I have to redo the stylesheets.
The thing I like best is the styleswitcher, which lets the users alter the font size. It really doesn't matter to non-IE users, who can use Text Zoom on their browsers, but you gotta feel sorry for IE users who can't change their font size. Which is ironic, because Microsoft developed Text Zoom for IE5 for Mac but didn't bother to incorporate it into IE6 for Windows. Such is the mystery of life.
I can't believe what a sloppy coder I am. Why did I use
when a would suffice? Reading Jeffrey Zeldman's book on web standards really helped me out in terms of coding. Everyone should read that book. It's awesome.
Anyway, the newest layout won't validate due to some JavaScript stuff, so I'll have to figure that out. But it's only ten errors, which I guess isn't so bad.
From now on, it's all about the HARDCORE validation, kids. As if I haven't been hardcore already. I want to be able to set a trend in the anime community with my designs. It's time for anime sites to drag their asses out of 1997 and go tableless, baby. As a dial-up user, I've noticed my sites load so much faster because I don't use tables for design, and I use stylesheets. Content loads first, which is more important, anyway. I even made a little separate page on web standards in the pathetic hopes that some webmaster would read it and give web standards a try.
I'm also trying to improve the site's pagerank on Google, but so far I'm only getting 4/10, which I guess isn't bad. The Protagonist Community's tips on search engine optimization was quite helpful. As long as my site is ranked higher than readordie.com (which has absolutely nothing), I'm pretty happy. Oh yes, it has to rank higher than animewallpapers.com because I'm still mad that a girl ripped my site design and used it to make a wallpaper.
Bitter, who me?
But enough unpleasantry.
After over a year, I updated ReadorDie.org. It has a nice summer layout and some fresh content. It took me a while to come up with a new design because I wanted to do XHTML 1.0 Strict-validated layouts and I was stuck forever on a layout because it wouldn't look right in IE. All the other themes aren't available because I have to redo the stylesheets.
The thing I like best is the styleswitcher, which lets the users alter the font size. It really doesn't matter to non-IE users, who can use Text Zoom on their browsers, but you gotta feel sorry for IE users who can't change their font size. Which is ironic, because Microsoft developed Text Zoom for IE5 for Mac but didn't bother to incorporate it into IE6 for Windows. Such is the mystery of life.
I can't believe what a sloppy coder I am. Why did I use
when a would suffice? Reading Jeffrey Zeldman's book on web standards really helped me out in terms of coding. Everyone should read that book. It's awesome.
Anyway, the newest layout won't validate due to some JavaScript stuff, so I'll have to figure that out. But it's only ten errors, which I guess isn't so bad.
From now on, it's all about the HARDCORE validation, kids. As if I haven't been hardcore already. I want to be able to set a trend in the anime community with my designs. It's time for anime sites to drag their asses out of 1997 and go tableless, baby. As a dial-up user, I've noticed my sites load so much faster because I don't use tables for design, and I use stylesheets. Content loads first, which is more important, anyway. I even made a little separate page on web standards in the pathetic hopes that some webmaster would read it and give web standards a try.
I'm also trying to improve the site's pagerank on Google, but so far I'm only getting 4/10, which I guess isn't bad. The Protagonist Community's tips on search engine optimization was quite helpful. As long as my site is ranked higher than readordie.com (which has absolutely nothing), I'm pretty happy. Oh yes, it has to rank higher than animewallpapers.com because I'm still mad that a girl ripped my site design and used it to make a wallpaper.
Bitter, who me?