23°C;perfect again.
me the busy boy updating my own website, not enough time to write a full entry here. The css is really useful now, it integrates well with this site, even though there are a bunch of features that haven’t sunk in yet- especially <block> formatting.
Haven’t painted today anyway. However, the BBC are running a program on the BBCi
A picture of Britain. Worth seeing. They run a nice gallery of peoples photos on the TV, with short programs of advice and analysis on the subject of photography.
I’m off to play games now…
18°C;half-witted clouds,slim winds
More Premier editing. Stunning how 2 hours goes so quickly. Ready to burn to DVD, maybe this weekend.
27°C, very humid; no wind; 10/10 cloud
Getting somewhere with CSS. What seems good is that with a slingle lil’ file, I can made changes to the site without having to upload loads of altered pages, all that needs togo up is the altered style sheet. My worry now is the transfer from tables based pages to the new method with defined areas using the <div—> tag.
For now here’s some useful reading:
http://www.csszengarden.com/
http://www.corecss.com/properties/full-chart.php
http://css.maxdesign.com.au/
http://westciv.com/style_master/
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/
http://glish.com/css/
http://fecklessmind.com/main/5/definitive-solution-to-image-replacement
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html
http://www.positioniseverything.net/
http://www.thenoodleincident.com/
http://www.stunicholls.myby.co.uk/
27°C;very muggy, dropping wind (from the west)
Cycled to work against the headwind. Feeling fully recovered.
Get thinking cap on because I want to use CCS on my website. In case you didn’t know Cascading Style Sheets are small text files that control the formatting on your web pages. there seemto be some nice tricks that I didn’t know were available before, not just the coloured scrol bars. this blog’s formatting is all done with css anyway.
22°C, 0/10 cloud, :. perfect
Doing more selection during the capture stage of that video, then shove it all in the timeline with Automate to Sequence maybe that’s a good way to do it, at least I get an idea of how long the whole thing is. Currently it’s an hour, waaaay too long, but I can see where to make cuts, there are quite a few quirky moments that could be left out.
How much can fit onto a single-layer DVD anyway?
that cold is here to stay for awhile. No cycling today
So instead:
Taking a break from editing the school trip video, the end of the first tape seems a good point. Actually I’m not really editing it as such yet, still capturing to the computer. It al looks good so far. There is plenty of footage as well as some excellent music to use.
definitely the best way to get into Adobe Premier.
more later
YEP! 
It works, edited a test video now and am ready to do the tapes from Japan. So it was a faulty firewire card, now I have to come to trerms with the feeling of stupidity because I didn’t do it before.
We’re probably off to a concert tonight at the Birmingham Symphony hall, – not exactly sure what it is though.
Annoyed by Fireworks
Yes, I have been annoyed with Fireworks, the kind made by Macromedia. Should be a simple job to add a new button to the navigation bar in my own website shouldn’t it?
But no, fireworks had to chuck in an obscure error, – the whole button bar is build using the button wizard, which means that a button image, plus all of it’s rollover states is based on a library system that updates as a reference file. So why this time did it decide to treat the new button as a slice and therefore disable the rollover java script? answers on a postcard please.
It took a few days to find the blunder, but deleting the slice layer got the blighter. Now it works, – thanks Macromedia.
Tomorrow I go up a hill.
More artwork updates in my next post methinks.
But for now, a silly picxture, the dogs stole my shorts, then I found them, just look…
Micycle 