What’s New : 2004

26 September 2004

Additions to the collections of photographs: cinemas, police vehicles, trains, and self-portraits.

18 September 2004

The index page has been updated with some graphics of text, using an image replacement technique to shunt <h3> elements off to the left and display an image assigned as a background for the heading element instead. Yeah, the subject headings are ClarendonPS, but the banner naming the subdomain is New Century Schoolbook italicized. Nothing is ever simple and I didn’t test my first attempt (in which I applied the background image to the succeeding paragraph) in Internet Explorer first and of course it doesn’t understand style rules of the form p[id] which I’d been using to target only succeeding paragraphs with text and avoid the paragraphs with banner advertisements. A review of the image replacement options at Dave Shea’s site Mezzoblue led me to choose the Phark Revisted technique even though from the comments at Mike Rundle’s weblog entry it’s apparent that challenges remain with this technique in older versions of IE for Windows.

12 September 2004

I added an id="c-hannaher-net" attribute to the <body> element on every page to support site-specific user (visitor) stylesheets.

01 September 2004

The link target for the channaher WEB DESIGN badge has been updated in the style of the Photographs menu page to be more of a portfolio than a simple list of sites.

22 August 2004

As a followup to making the <h2> elements in the pages of dispatches and movie reviews permalinks and spurred by seeing the technique in use at Eric Meyer’s personal site I have added the style rule div#content div.dispatch h2 a:hover::after, div#content div.longdesc h2 a:hover::after, div#content div.review h2 a:hover::after { content: " \00B6"; } to add a subsequent pilcrow sign (U+00B6 ¶) in the hover state to those elements.

29 July 2004

Last Saturday I re-styled the index page for the c.hannaher.net subdomain to resemble an installation of WordPress.

05 July 2004

A major push to scan negatives resulted in a new menu for photographs of trains and additions to the menus mentioned in the previous dispatch.

30 June 2004

Two more pages of police vehicles based on a belated realization that I already had the required sets of pictures for Prince George’s County and for Alexandria uploaded. The whole gallery (available as a menu) is now more useful as I have linked to the home page of each department from the individual pages. Also, a new page in the series of television reporters.

22 June 2004

I made use of regular expressions to replace <div id="(d\d{8})" class="dispatch">(\s+)<h2>(\s+)(.*?)(\s+)</h2> with <div id="\1" class="dispatch">\2<h2><a href="#\1">\4</a></h2> to make the headings dating each dispatch a permalink. This follows several months of tweaking the stylesheets to address new image sizes, style <blockquote> elements, and the like.

05 January 2004

Previous iterations of this webspace (as found at the Erol’s/Starpower/RCN domains) have had their pages edited to link to the subdomain c.hannaher.net or individual pages thereat.

01 January 2004

I have transferred my updates to the new subdomain http://c.hannaher.net/.

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