Wesley's Tool-Box

All entries from my old blog at Naver Blog service have been moved to here. There were 126 entries in total and since there was no exporting function each entries were moved one by one. It should fill a huge hole between the old Wesley's World era and the current Tool-Box era.

The Naver Blog entries were written in Korean. There are no immediate plans to translate them into English.

The old Wesley's World has been cleaned up and the pages redirect to here. The duplicate/no-longer-used image/data files have been deleted from the old site as well. Currently the only website running at the old site is Pyongyang Metro.

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.

This is a long overdue story. It began exactly 7 months ago, on January 11, 2005.

At Macworld Expo San Francisco, Steve Jobs announced a small form factor Macintosh computer called 'Mac mini'. Right up to that point, I had almost no interest at all in using a Mac. Why, my AthlonXP desktop computer was working fine. I had no need to use a largely incompatible and expensive computer that wasn't even small. But the moment I saw that Mac mini, I was absolutely shocked. A supposedly decent performing computer that has a mainboard that probably measures only about 15cm on each side, and fully operational unit costing as low as $499.

Interestingly, I already owned a computer smaller than this: Sony VAIO VGN-U50, an ultraportable notebook computer the size of a normal 3.5" hard disk. Hadn't I already filled the 'own a tiny computer' need? Apparently not. I saw the potential for replacing my desktop computer in Mac mini. VGN-U50 would still be the 'second unit', a portable device I would continuously carry around with to fill my needs. I needed something small that can be kept sitting around the house. Mac mini was it, I envisioned.