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Saturday, November 10
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The great resource BrowserShots tells me that there's a rendering problem with these pages in IE 6 (that last one is a link to the screenshots, but I'm not sure how long they'll stay). Sigh. It looks like a box-model issue with the center column running too wide. I'll see if I can tweak it into position tomorrow -- hopefully without doing rendering conditionals for IE 6. It's odd, though, that it seems to work fine in IE 5.5, so it was some odd bug added just in 6.0. All of the others Windows browsers that they show work fine except for the "Partners" box that slips...
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Sunday, October 14
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A few todo notes: Now that I'm more comfortable with the way the master pages / subpages work on asp.net and CS, I realize that my current column format is a bit too constraining for the future. I'll redefine the master.Master to give a choice of three column configurations for subpages. I think I'll stick with the current config only for the home page. On blog post and list pages, I'll set up an option in the master for a narrower center column with a right column wide enough to fit both a Google skyscraper (120px) and links to the blog's content like "Recent posts"...
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Thursday, October 11
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Again, the slowness of whole process has embarrassed me. It took way too long, but I've finally figured out how to get the custom menu items (Qblog, Qnews, Qyou) on the main navigation menu to become highlighted most of the time when the blog is selected. It's all extraordinarily simple, even in the method I used. I suspect that it could be made simpler still, but I haven't yet figured out how to do that. I'll trace back. It was obvious that I needed to do something with a class called CSContext. In his great CS Developer blog , Keyvan Nayyeri gives a rundown of the class here ...
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Tuesday, October 09
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Well, now... That was a major effort for what looks like a minor change. I now have most of the public pages running on a new page design. It doesn't look all that much different than it did before, but the process of making the change was a highly effective learning experience. I feel much more comfortable now with asp.net inheritance and CS's implementation of it. One most helpful step was to modify Web.config (after saving a good copy, of course) to make it generate more complete error messages. The process of doing that is explained in the brief error message that was appearing before...
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Friday, October 05
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I've used the impressive CS feed-reading capabilities to seed the site with posts (both blog posts and news items) that I've created elsewhere. Eventually, it would be a good idea to change to author to reflect its real origination by this site's user (ie: me at this point). Again, there's sample code in the Wrox book that will be helpful. Page 232 offers some sample code for changing a post's properties. Side note: As I expected, this seeding of the site with posts from ttca.org is causing some search engine issues. Already, I've noticed that technorati.com won't allow...
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Friday, October 05
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The too-long process the other day with Community Server list controls has allowed me to get the home page of this site into something close to what it will (probably) look like on release. Getting it to the current state has considerably increased my confidence that I'll be able to make the site do what I hope it will do. I'm now fully impressed with the CS system, even if I'm still a bit overwhelmed by some of what I still need to do to get this into a shape that I'm willing to call a 'beta' and tell other people about. My next task will be to move the news digest posts...
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