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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe
Most of you won’t know who I am but I’ve been around here for bloody ever. My original site from was called Broken Window. I’ve been on what has effectively been a vacation from online journalism for around three months but, today, I’ve launched a sequel to that original site called, as you might have guessed, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe.
The Encyclopedia, as I like to call it, was briefly a WordPress site as I tried to persue a different style of online journalism but it didn’t work out (the software and the style) so I’ve gone back to Textpattern, which I’ve used and loved and been abused and loved by since the days when forms were called spigots (at least I think those were the spigots). Anyway, I just thought I’d let you guys know.
Being as I just launched the site, oh, five minutes ago or so, there is only one entry. And it’s not even a very good one but it’s a good one for a first one, I think. I hope you find it worth checking into from time-to-time because not only am I returning to the original style of the Broken Window, I’m going back to daily updates.
(By the way, going from using 1.0rc3 to 4.0.1 has been incredibly gratifying; Dean and Co. have done a simply fantastic job on Textpattern and I, for one, am glad to be back to the white and yellow.)
How am I supposed to enjoy this with you crying?
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#2 2005-10-22 00:24:00
- User61
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Re: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe
There’s a tiny bug.
Click on Table of Contents -> Click on Part 1: Rivers of Whisky, Rivers of Ketamine -> Click on Long Black Years -> Broken Link
It’s linked to: http://www.imaginaryuniverse.org/2005/10/21/first-post
:)
Addendum: The comment preview looks really messed up in Firefox (1.5 Beta 2). Not sure if it looks fine in 1.0.7 though.
Last edited by User61 (2005-10-22 00:27:10)
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Re: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe
Thanks for pointing out the broken link. Unfortunately, it brings up what might be a bug in Textpattern itself: the comment invitation link disappears if the entry is viewed as an archive. I doubt it’s my code because the default page and archive page use the same exact page and form. Who knows though. I’ll look into it.
As for the Firefox issue, I haven’t tried the beta yet. If you’re talking about the live preview bit, that’s a plug-in so if the error persists once Firefox v1.5 goes gold, then I’ll pester the author about it.
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The live preview of the comments?
It’s because it is written for a full sized window rather than the pop-up window. I say this because when I full sized the window(Firefox) the comment preview looked dandy.
I tried it in Opera and the window opened into a new full sized window and it was working fine.
Do a brother a favor? What is the location for the preview plug-in? I should like to try it my own good self, I think.
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Father Luke
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Re: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe
Here you go.
Thanks for checking out the site, too.
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Re: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe
Thanks.
Your site works very smooth in opera,
and with the exception of the pop-up window,
works nicely in Firefox.
Thanks for the URI to he comments preview.
All the best,
Father Luke
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#7 2005-10-26 18:11:15
- davidraine
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Re: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe
The site comes up as black text on white in IE6, then everything flickers and moves around, before settling into something that is readable (in white on a dark bg image). This only takes a second but it is quite offputting.
Also, The nav is a tad strange (not had time to check on any other browsers – here at work it’s ie6 only) – I get an article and only the current one and have to scroll down (even on full screen) to see that there is an area at the bottom that lists the headline for the article. Tucked away, there is an “Earlier” link… Not very intuitive. AT one point I got a list of articles, but these disappeared quite quickly and I’ve not seen the list again…
All-in – I don’t think this site works technically in IE6.
The content, though makes for good reading…
-D
Last edited by davidraine (2005-10-26 18:12:14)
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> davidraine wrote:
> All-in – I don’t think this site works technically in IE6.
On DSL, it loads fine on IE on this end.
No Flicker what-so-ever. Would that it be
due to internet speed?
Dunn’o. That’s why I ask.
Shouldn’t, though, right?
Very little graphics and mostly text.
So, whatever.
Okay,
Father Luke
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Re: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of an Imaginary Universe
> davidraine wrote:
> Also, The nav is a tad strange (not had time to check on any other browsers – here at work it’s ie6 only) – I get an article and only the current one and have to scroll down (even on full screen) to see that there is an area at the bottom that lists the headline for the article. Tucked away, there is an “Earlier” link… Not very intuitive. AT one point I got a list of articles, but these disappeared quite quickly and I’ve not seen the list again…
I appreciate your comments. However, the navigation is purposeful. One entry per day, every day. There’s no need for navigation beyond moving between them and getting a table of contents the details of which are shown when the different parts (of which there are just one right now) are clicked.
As for any issues with IE, I did just enough testing to make sure it displayed. It was enough of a nightmare to deal with inconsistencies between Firefox and Opera. I’m certain that enough of my CSS is probably unsupported (or at the least poorly supported) in IE to make near impossible to maintain the design as I want it.
Thanks for looking into it though and thanks for your compliment on the most important bit.
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