Saturday, October 29, 2005

What gets my goat?

It's folks who cannot understand when something isn't working for whatever reason and have no patience until it gets fixed. And expect immediate action. And think they are alone to have this problem. And when you tell them they are not they get even more antsy and want a resolution now, now, now!

And what, pray, is this "thing" which is not working? Nothing more than a tracking script to track visitors to a website. A nice, sweet piece of software and a nifty database to keep the logs. Unfortunately it's hosted on a remote server. And like all machines, this too can fail. And it won't fail at the same time as your own site does of course LOL!

People always wanting more and more bells and whistles added to the service doesn't help either.

Anyway, I fail to see how this could be of such paramount importance as to get those folks all in a tizzy over its not working for a few hours. Big deal! So they won't have tracking stats for a while! So what? Sheesh!

Yes! I did it! All CSS, almost no tables!

I finally got my personal website www.webado.com redone without tables or without as many tables as before!

It wasn't even all that hard, after all. It took only about 4-5 hours to convert my totally table driven layout to css-styles divs. Still got a few tweaks I could make, but I'm quite happy with the result as it is right now.

Still not sure why some things work and others don't but not going to be bothered all that much. It works OK now in all browsers I can test it in (IE, FF, Netscape Opera), that's what counts.