Saturday, October 11th, 2008 - sean

Wheee, flu...

Gives you lots of time to actually play with updates for a start.

For those of you using modern browsers (ie. pretty much everyone), it should now work with fully validated HTML 4.01 Strict. Yes, even to the level nobody in their right mind bothers with. That means it uses CSS to hold some of the layout information.

(Note: that's only the public stuff; the admin pages are still a god awful HTML mess)

Those of you using something older should still be able to see things roughly as they should be - the site will fall back to a bastardisation of HTML 3.2 Final that nearly passes validation. Not quite - things like font selection, cell sizes were sucky in HTML 3.2, but its workable. Will I ever go to HTML 5 or XHTML? Cold day in hell probably, this was enough work as it is, as I really like the site working on "everything", and don't like saying "I'm too crap to deal with your browser", and my site doesn't demand enough to make that a valid choice.

Also fixed is a weird bug with cancellations not showing up properly. Some optimisations in the calendar generation were too dicey, so I ripped it up and started the generation of them from scratch, and then worked on it from there. Isn't as good as it was, but the only people who might notice are those who actually edit events, not the people viewing them.

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 - twist

Issues Fixed...

There was an issue uploading images for fliers... Its fixed now.

Shea

Saturday, November 17th, 2007 - sean

Welcome a change of admins...

Despite many peoples' confusion, gothic.net.au has always been the work of several people, and they're the ones currently listed in the contributors. The most obvious example was myself, as I'm the poor sod who registered the domain in 1995, and has provided continuity for it all; however, the real work of maintaining the content has never been something I can claim credit for; other than obvious user contributions (thank you all the people who put up poetry/art/writing!), the calendar was in the past held together by Fiona, in many cases by sheer willpower and refusal to deal with the shit of promoters who couldn't find their arse with both hands and a road map. Any good parts of the graphics and layout are the work of Nadine. Really. The crap parts are mine because I was too lazy to listen to Nadine.

That was all true up until 2003, when due to one action too many by event managers we finally packed it in after getting tired of lack of gratitude and outright abuse. Good riddance. Life goes on, we've all gone on to do different things and have lives, and now separate lives.

Come 2007, two important people in my life have demonstrated insanity beyond all regard for life and limb and asked for the resurrection. Ok, so we're not the messiah, and naughty boy is apt, but it's back. And the only part that is worth resurrecting as you can all use MySpace, Facebook, Livejournal or whatever takes your fancy to splatter your lives on the net. I personally run all of the above and have my own blog. Thrills me to bits.

Oh. Yes. New admins. Amanda, who is an admin but due to potential conflicts of interest and the fact that she has a life, will tend to be doing all pretty stuff with things. She's taken on an impressive mantle from Nadine (and Fiona - never underestimate her contribution), but if she ever finds time from the fun things like running club, working f/t, having a healthy relationship (my god... a balanced individual? nah, she's a workaholic..) she's certainly up to the challenge...

And the other new admin. Shea (appears as twist) is the one who will be kicking arse and taking names just for you to get your name in lights on the calendar. You have to hand it to her... otherwise she'll just take it anyway.

I'm still responsible for the crap parts. I can't get out of it that easily.

- Sean

Sunday, November 11th, 2007 - sean

Push the clicky clicky thing!

Push it!

(Yes, the city names mean something ... there's calendars behind them!)

Saturday, November 10th, 2007 - sean

Oops.

Ok, still not there yet. Mind you, with the iCal support, it makes a great personal calendar for me...

Coming up