Wesley's Tool-Box

This is entirely my opinion on what I think is a good website design.

- Avoid Flash as much as possible
I sometimes come across websites that havethe menus or even the entire layout of the website based entirely on Macromedia Flash. But I seriously doubt if any of these cannot be done with a scripting language or DHTML. Also, Flash poses some limitations on what platform and computer speed it can be run on. One should not assume that a good-looking website can only be done with Flash.

The width adjustment problem affecting Mozilla-based browsers, which caused the entry page to widen and break the formatting, apparently still lingered around even after the last fix. So I did a more thorough analysis of the problem with the problematic browser (i.e. Firefox) and found that it does not readjust the width back as specified in CSS just because the comments area did not have a width set. The problem was corrected (or worked around, since other browsers don't have any problem) by giving the comments area a fixed width.

Oh, and the Toolbox theme used in this site is available at Additional Themes section of SourceForge CVS. The updated version (1.2) with the fix is now available.

The new router seems to work well. I had the connection tested by several people and they all seem to agree that the website is quite accessible.

I'm changing the router this evening. The website may not be accessible for a while some time between now and midnight.

There have been several improvements to the site design.

I've been meaning to fill the empty space to the right of the text on each of the sidebar items since, well, it felt empty. So I've now made some icons and put them there. It should blend in nicely with the existing design.

While I was on that, I also made the blue arrows to replace the default ones which are currently visible on the calendar. Speaking of calendar, I adjusted the year/month display method to make it look okay on both English and Korean version of the website. The margins between each rows were changed so that the numbers don't stick so close together.

The problems with width element I had with the design had been pretty much fixed now. It was that some articles (mostly the ones from the old website) were prone to stretch the width of the content pane slightly. Also, on Mozilla-based web browsers, the article view often resulted in incorrect width adjustment, making the page a lot wider than intended. The website stylesheet has been adjusted to remedy these anomalies.