Long-Awaited Notables

On the afternoon of Wednesday, May 28, I got home, fired up my computer, and to my dismay, my site was down. I headed straight for my host’s forums and reported the problem, and they diagnosed it to be a problem with the Reverse DNS Lookup (PTR). Adjustments were made, and I’ve spent that last 66 hours waiting for the changes to propagate.

This waiting period included upwards of 3,000 refreshes, 200 “Delete Cookies” (just to be sure), and a pile of torn out hair, resulting in a tiny bald spot on the back of my head. You have to understand that I would not have been this impatient if I had not just launched a new design and layout, which still needed completion, and a blog, which needed updating.

Anyways, that ordeal is over, and now I leave you with some interesting links and info that I’ve seen or read while awaiting the rebirth of my site.

Stuart Robertson, of DesignMeme, has created a couple new CSS tricks, and both are fantastic. The first, entitled “The Search for the Missing Link“, uses the :hover pseudo-class on a paragraph (cool!), which results in a rollover effect that assists the reader in finding the links within that paragraph. This effect works in Mozilla, Netscape 6+, Opera 7, Safari, and Konqueror.

The second effect he thought up was a pure CSS pulldown menu. It basically uses the :hover pseudo-class on an HTML list, setting the normal list as display:none and the hovered list as visibility:visible, resulting in a pulldown effect. This effect will work in Mozilla, Netscape 6+, Opera 7, Safari, and Camino.

QuickColor, by kohaistyle, is a fun a little color mixer to help you when in need of inspiration. I’ve messed around with it, and most of the schemes are actually quite worthy of being incorporated into a design. Enjoy!

MeBox: The new cardboard storage box. Way too cool.