So…
As you can see, the site has moved from a top menu with IFRAMEs to a side menu with a FRAMESET. This is a compromise – you see, what I wanted was a single page, no frames of any kind, with the menu at the top. The problem is that the wiki, forum and bugzilla generate their own full pages – so how do you get your menu in there? not to mention Blogger being on a different site completely…
I figured a way to get the menu in there (apache module finding the
tag and adding stuff immediately afterwards) but man, there’s just so many ways that could go wrong that it was not viable.There were two problems with the original site; firstly, the menu tabs used XMLHTTPRequest to load pages, so the browser couldn’t know they were links and so you couldn’t right click and open in a new tab. Secondly, IFRAMEs are always a pain, since they scroll differently to the rest of the page.
So, for now, just to make the site more usable, the menu is on the left. The site is a FRAMESET, so it’s not perfect, but the menu tabs are links, so you can right click and open in a new tab. Also, since the main frame is now a column, scrolling is more natural.
I’ve also moved over to WordPress. Where Blogger was on another site, I couldn’t insert new markup after the
tag (since it wasn’t being emitted by my Apache server). So I installed a local blog. Now I don’t need it, but it is I feel nicer to have the blog local rather than remote, so I’m keeping it.
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