I have had a lack of interest involving the site as of late. I am kinda blamin school for this in a way. I guess I just kept expecting it to pick up, so I didn't want to get too involved in anything. While I do have some projects to work on for my classes, I don't feel the pressure I probably should. And to be honest, with exception of a few minor projects that are near completion, I don't have much in the way of work to do on the page...at least, not that I know of. I really just need to finish up the unified back end (about 90% there) and implement it...probably about 10 hours of work if I am lucky. So, if it wasn't me, it could conceivably be done before next week, but it is, so maybe by the end of the month.
Of course, talking about what I have not done is not why I wanted to post today, but rather, potentially where I could be going. I was playing around with the wife's page last night. I was glancing around some of my bookmarks looking to build a good reference page for learning HTML and CSS, and something I saw reminded me of a complaint she had with her page that I had never got around to realy looking at. The posts in her page were 170 pixels narrower in Internet Explorer (6 and lower) than in other mainstream browsers. When I put her page together, I must not have noticed since getting the rest of the layout to look right took enough work in IE. Amoung other things, they use a broken box model, but I understand that this, and many other things are right as rain in the upcoming version 7.
Anyways, playing with her page and comparing it to my layout got me thinking in some different directions on how things like this could be made easier. I know that if I want to eventually take rantfest live to other users that I need to make things more graphically intensive and less code intensive. So, in that light, I am plan on spending a lot of time relearning javascript and the DOM. If I like where it is going, I might combine that with some back end scripting, database love, and some work with xmlHTTPrequest and see where that takes me.
