I’m getting there with the templates. It seems like a long, slow process. I’m fairly happy with them, though. And I like the new name so I might stick with it for awhile. Those quotes from Einstein and Philip Dick have always been two of my favorites.

We do live in interesting times.

Persistent Illusion is in the process of moving from MoveableType to WordPress. The posts are all here and the format is set, but the templates still need changing. I’ve also changed the name 4 or 5 times.

I’m fickle. What can I say?

Can’t believe how easy this move was, though. WordPress rocks!

After a bit of experimentation, and thanks to a script from http://www.howtocreate.co.uk that snifs out Opera no matter how it has set itself to be recognized, I managed to come up with a little script that hides the iFrame when the menus are displayed if the browser is Opera, and makes it visible again when the menus are hidden. I even managed to make my own add-in to DHTML Menu Builder so that my script is part of the menu’s generated code.

And it works! And there was much rejoicing!

Now Opera users get to see and use the menus, and I’ve added a nice little “complain to Opera if you don’t like it message.”

The iframe sits inside a div tag. I’m going to experiment with making the div hidden when the menus open if the browser is Opera. Sounds hokey, but maybe it will work.

I changed the logo .gif so that it pauses in between headstands and that seems to help with the blinking cursor. It doesn’t seem to pause correctly in Netscape, but then Netscape doesn’t seem to have the cursor problem either. So I guess I’ll have a go at changing all of the weather icons to stand still for a bit.

I also changed the graphics and display effect on the menus. I like the new graphics, but the display is a bit jerky. I think I’ll change that back.

There’s a thunderstorm right now. The little weather gif in the corner is showing lightening strikes. It looks cool. 🙂

I can hear the thunder boom outside. I love thunderstorms. Thank you, Thor!

Adam’s down at Pioneer Courthouse Square to hear Kerry speak. I hope he and his friends don’t get drenched.

The good news is that mommymonster.com is now much more “styled” as far as CSS goes. I ran into some strangeness with some of the browsers, but for the most part it all works OK.

I tried out the DHTML scroller and found it not to be a suitable solution. It, and all of the ones I found, work by moving the external page first into an iframe and then moving the iframe contents into a div. Doing so loses all of the header info in the external page. That meant I would have had to move almost all of my pages — including this one — to pop-up windows. Ick, and no thanks.

mommymonster uses iframes and javascript. If you use Opera… oh well. Deal with it.