Hi there again everyone ! Thought it's about time I did a little something to my site - no matter how miniscule. Haven't done anything for a long long time now. Maybe some people have been wondering where i've been.
My absence has been for meny reasons - partly because (i have to confess) my enthusiasm has dwindled a little, but also because i've been working on my little game project which takes a lot of effort and time to get anywhere. All this computer biznis has massively worn my brain out leaving me somewhat dilapidated. Chemicals of Mass Distraction are perhaps also partly to blame :) Anyway, there's still loads i can do for the site. I need to perhaps re-organise things a bit to carry on. Another thing :- trying to get it W3C compliant has meant much delay in doing anything. Not sure whether it's worth me worrying about it really. What Mark-up language should i use if i decide to try this ? There's so many to choose from... AH! Anyway, the hitcount says 73 today and that can't just be the visits I make to check things are working. That means a lot - I wonder who's been looking..... At some point, because ages ago i noticed that a lot of people who're involved in creating games keep a diary of their days, i'll try to have a page for my diary in case it equates to anything plausibly of interest to any netlanders who somehow arrive at my site. Also, i'm thinking it would be nice to have a Wiki about something interesting so there'd be a little more action on the site. What could it be for though ? A geometrical pictures discussion perhaps ?
Thanks for your interest... :-)
Monday 11th August
More work done today! :) My site's slowing getting bigger and bigger which is good. I've done my first imagemap today ( and yesterday ( finished today )). It can be found in the art section - click on the "seven medium ones" link. It's my first one - i think it looks quite good but a little hurried and disharmonious - future ones should be better. The imagemap links to seven *more* pictures i've done (a long time ago). Check'em out - they're quite good. Also, i've added a little to the thanks page. More work done often in my case means more work to do later - the imagemap isn't aligned properly yet but it works okayish. Next: What to *do* next. What'll it be? A new homepage ? More pictures ? What'll it be ? Keep coming back to find out!
Sunday 10th August
Managed to get the "five colour pictures" page(s) finished this morning. Twice as much work because i have made two page for each picture to cater for ppl browsing at 800*600 AND 1024*768. How thoughtful of me.
Wednesday 23rd July
Just noticed that more than a month's passed and i've haven't done a thing to my site. Don't get me wrong :- I know i haven't been doing anything for a while, i just didn't know it was that long. The break was due to things here at home being in a state of upheaval. Anyways, a change is as good as a rest they say. I'm back with a somewhat freshened perspective, i'm glad to say.
I've actually come to the point where i'm having trouble deciding how to continue. I've got various ideas but don't really know what to pursue. Certainly i intend to continue on the previous theme of getting the art /drawings/pictures whatever.. uploaded. The other thing i intend to do is add some more links as i've discovered some quite cool things recently. Also i've been thinking of doing some animations. I expect by the time anyone reads this liitle addition to the news section i'll have added some more so it may be slightly redundant to tell what's coming up. Anyway - the objective :- to construct a cool, interesting, large and perhaps a little self-indulgent web-site remains high on my agenda. Thanks btw to all who've taken a little time to peruse my pages, especially to the two who added a little criticism on the comments page which seems to be working okay.
Sunday 11th May
Got a little bit done this day. Had to go in to town in the morning to get my bike which i'd forgotten i'd taken in on Saturday. Managed to finish the image which says 'Will's art page' on will's_art_htm.htm.
Saturday 10th May
Started an image for the top of will's_art_htm.htm. Dressed up and went into town. Bought a record from hmv (nhs 55). Went to the Norwich King Street Festival. Bought another record there (emotif 2047) from the stall of www.truesounds.net the new Norwich underground record selling service. Did a bit of work on that image and then Mini (my long-time friend) came around and we went to the madder market to see Sir Patrick Moore (^ ^) (^ ^) (^ ^) (-_^).
Friday 9th May
Finished a bit of re-arrangment i started on my room yesterday (8/5/03). Cleared out some rubbish, hoovered up, started peeling wallpaper of wall. Important to have a happy environment i say.
Sunday 4th May 2003
Sunny Sundays! (at least here in Norwich) Incredibly bright. Makes me really think there is a God. (And rather Windy too i add as a big gust of wind rushes into my room via my skylight. The lord moves in mysterious ways they say , or should that be we say? Anyway today all i'm going to do is add a few more ppl to the thanks page as at the time i forgot some of them :- some of the most crucial in fact :/ Norwich beat Preston 2day which is good news. I'm not sure if we're going to be in the play-offs this year or not. I heard on the news a while back that we're out but i hear a lot of things i later find out aren't true so maybe (hopefully) this is another example :). I might do some more work on the massive links page aswell if i get time.
Saturday 3rd May 2003
Decided to stop using the envelope image for my email button because i pinched it from another site. I've typed some text in it's place which was done by me so it's better :)
Thursday 24th April 2003
wtf's the little 24/4/03 all about i guess you're wondering. Well. I'm sure why but i've developed the belief that it's never a bad idea to keep track of when you do things. Isn't it enough to write a date and say what u did that date? Not when you're as concerned about detail and the undesirable possibilty of confusing oneself and others, as myself. So from here on they'll be line, a little date and any text including further dates written in the form 'day number_in_month month year', will have been written on the date specified at the beginning (the little date).
anyway, enough of that. What about 24th April 2003 (today)? I'll leave this 'til tonight just b4 12 midnight. (so as not to disobey my own rules).
Wednesday 23rd April 2003 Yesterday. St.George's day, i found out. ...just in time to get in the Trafford Arms and have a half of Carlsberg.
Anyway, what i did computer wise: finished off the little thumbnails that i've replaced the old text links with. The smaller ones i mentioned below i've kept. I might be nice if i can chuck all the abandoned ideas and older versions of pictures on a page. Will i have the time and/or the energy ? Also made a start on the images (gif's) that i made to replace the text to the right of the links that explain what the page the link links to............ .........iiiis all about.
Tuesday 23rd April 2003
can't remember a lot about this day atm. I went to Hussey Knights to collect some pictures (on a cd) that had been pending. Twil be a while 'til these are available.
Today due to some advice i got on the WebExpertz forum, i started on some little gif's to use instead of text for links on my opening page. Went into city, came back and decided they weren't good enough - too small (100px by 15px) and the colours didn't match the will's_web_space picture. I did another which is looking better, for a new section in fact - a free progs section. Grooo....... v :)
Saturday 19th April 2003
Woke up this morning and the weather was all different. Here in Norwich it's been relatively warm and sunny for quite a while now. This morning i looked out of the window to see some pretty serious cloud cover, quite possibly 8/8 (weather ppl measure cloud cover in eigths - O/8 being clear, 8/8 being total cloud cover). In the city it was quite windy.
Today i'm not doing a lot as i had some mates round last night and we all had a fair bit of drink ^_^. I've decided (just now) although it might be a bit of a white elephant to write a page for explaining the TLA's (T_hree L_etter A_cronym) which i use on my site in case anyone finds themselves reading a page and wondering what one means. It'd be quite fun either way.
Also, i'm going to start making little adjustments to make my site consistent.
Thursday 17th April 2003
Been quite busy this week, although i don't feel i've got a huge amount done, but what
i have done i'm very pleased with. I've recently learnt a few more html things. Ordered and unordered
lists, and how to use thumbnails. cool.
On the 13th April i got this post from ukonline;
Hi there, As your site falls well within our terms and conditions I have allowed the maximum 50 meg. Please bear in mind that should your site become commercial or break our terms and conditions the space will either go back to 2 meg or be removed. Please bear in mind your page http://www.william.labbett.ukonline.co.uk/news_changes_htm.htm is displying the incorrect address for the webspace, currently it is saying the address is http://www.wiliiam.labbett.ukonline.co.uk/. Many thanks David Scott
cool eh? 50MB's should last a while :).
basically i've been fiddling around a bit with colours and added a new page in the art section, littlest_1
which uses thumbnails, so you don't end up downloading great big 20MB files full of pictures.
Also i've used my first image which i didn't create - a pictures of an envelope with e-mail written on it just for the homepage. cool. hope that's legal. as far as i can tell ppl are always using other ppl's files on the net.
Wednesday 9th April 2003
For some reason i've been trying to document *all* the changes i make. I'm not sure to what extent there's much use in doing this and i simply can't tell you everything i'm doing so some of the changes i make won't be accounted for. Anyway, what am i doing today? Working on a new page. Saturday 5th April 2003
Yesterday i sat here wondering why after having uploaded the then current version of the site, the older (first) one was still up. I'd updated all the files except the index.htm so it was all there but there where no links from index.htm. (double doh! for that one). Due to superstitions i've accrued over the years about the number 5, i decided yesterday to abandon http://www.william.labett5.ukonline.co.uk/ as my homepage and have activated ftp.william.labbett.ukonline.co.uk as the space i'll be using for the foreseeable future, so my homepage will now be http://www.william.labbett.ukonline.co.uk/ It takes 24hrs or so for the space to become available which this morning it was so i've uploaded and my site's up. (subdued woohoo! for that one, nonetheless i'm settling in now and progress should be smoother now :).
I want to outline my plan here:
I'm aiming atm to just get all my art scanned in trimmed and polished etc available for perusal to all without anything fancy like geometry_pictures_page_one is. Later on i'll make the effort to learn how to make pages which'll little versions of each picture on and one will click on the image for the larger (full) version of the equivalent. Yeh, hold on to your hats, it's gonna be blowy! :)
Friday 4th April 2003
Yesterday did a bit more work sorting out site. Figured out about relative paths with htm documents. This morning got an email from ukonline. They've given me another 10MB's space. Woohoo!! :) :) Double smilie for that one. Should last me a while. Going to upload in a while. Should all be working as planned.
Thursday 3rd April 2003
Site uploaded!!!!!! How well'd it go? A minor disaster.I uploaded large pictures that
didn't need to be uploaded wasting me a bit of cash. The transfer failed probably
i think because these superfluous files used up my initial 2MB of space. Anyway, not
to worry, i've deleted the ones i didn't need. A picture ended up in a stray folder.
None of the links work from index.htm (my homepage) but i think that's because the
file names in the code and on my hardrive (and so the ukonline server) are matching
*atm*. Back to work.
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This should have been aren't :) (of course) - this added 26/7/03.
Today: linking the site up (images & pages).
Bear in mind that the to do list is never static - i can always add to it, and also that although there's always the possibility of removing info on pages (where one is the author) i will only add to the to do list.
Also, sometimes (as i sometimes upload sections bit by bit - as i write them) there is a link on my site to another page on my site which hasn't yet been uploaded or written. To be sure that just for once this cannot happen, i'm going to upload the to do list before i upload this page with this addition to it. Basically this should mean that there's no way anyone can be reading this bit of this page (under the header Furture Plans above.... sweat sweat) and the link below to the to do page not be working . I've just looked at my clock and it said 15.59 which is 3.59 in the afternoon. I know my clock is a little inaccurate btw. I suspect most are.
Anyway, enough drivel! Here's the link to the to do list:
to do list