Adventures with Dr. Lady Cutie Troublemaker

Comment by Andrew C

June 8, 2005 @ 8:28 pm

OK, I’m bored with doing LDAP upgrades, so here goes…

I wouldn’t use the header for the hover stuff because
it’s not consistent with the rest of the page. Every other
header is just a header, and most people will expect the
bold green text underneath the headers to be links. They’re
more likely to mouse over one of those intending to click on
it than to mouse over the header.

I do notice that nothing below “Archives” renders in
Internet Exploder. Not that I care. 🙂

Comment by Andrew C

June 8, 2005 @ 8:37 pm

In other words… I the way you have it now is probably
a good way to do it (sorry, I accidentally clicked Submit
before finising my comment…)

Comment by Abby

June 8, 2005 @ 8:56 pm

As you may notice, we’re messing around with it right now, so it’s changing by the minute. As per usual, I go in and use my mediocre skills to mess it all up and get it a little closer to how I want it, then Aaron goes in with his actual skills and cleans up the mess I have created. It’s OK. There is parity. I am often the one to take over in other situations. 😛

In short, we’re trying to make it all match so there is consistency across the page. One thing you bring up is that it isn’t showing up in IE. We’re both Firefox nuts, so we don’t always think to check usability in IE… But then IE is stooooopid!

Comment by Andrew C

June 8, 2005 @ 9:13 pm

Firefox rocks!

I’m actually slightly embarassed that I even tried to bring
the page up in IE; my only reason for doing so was to see
if there was any difference in the way the popup menus
work. You might consider throwing in a scrollbar
(if possible) if the menus get past a certain
number of items; one of my peeves is popup menus that
are too large to fit on my (small) laptop screen, with no
clear way to get at the hidden items. (No, they’re not that
way now, though I should try with my personal laptop,
which has a *really* tiny screen).

LDAP upgrades are DONE and I’m GOING HOME!

Comment by Aaron H

June 8, 2005 @ 9:27 pm

Yeah, there is a weird CSS popup bug that can kind of be solved but not completely. I think at this point we should be content to put a “best viewed in Firefox” button somewhere on the page. 🙂

Comment by Abby

June 8, 2005 @ 10:12 pm

Where is it? I can’t find it!

Comment by geo

June 9, 2005 @ 5:31 am

I noticed I tried to email you the other day just to say I had and got a bounce back. Have you changed your email address?

Comment by Abby

June 9, 2005 @ 7:07 am

Nope. Still ladycutietroublemaker at gmail dot com.

Comment by geo

June 9, 2005 @ 6:33 pm

“Nope. Still ladycutietroublemaker at gmail dot com.”

I see why I got a bounce back now. Here’s what comes up when I click the EMAIL ABBY to the right.

ladycutietroublemakerer@gmail.com (I copied and pasted from there to here.)

There seems to be an extra “er” in the portion prior to the “@”.

Comment by Abby

June 9, 2005 @ 7:17 pm

Someone else said that was the case, but we’ve combed the code, and it all looks correct. Tell me exactly where you clicked to get that. Where did you copy from?

Comment by geo

June 9, 2005 @ 7:27 pm

You probably have to go to another non-related computer and try to email yourself from this blog using the tab on the right that says “EMAIL ABBY” in the little boxes. Just below where it says “LOVES AARON”; I’m using caps because that’s the way it reads over there on the right of the screen.