Thursday 16th January 2003

Parsing, Planning and More Ranting

After having stuffed up rotating the server logs earlier this afternoon, I was having a look at the new one to make sure it was working properly, only to find that the webserver itself was requesting pages every few seconds, and in fact, one page in particular. Then I remembered that Sam was pestering me last night about setting up an RSS feed so that he can put links to my weblog on his pages. I said I couldn’t be bothered, so now he’s parsing the archive page every single time anyone looks at any webpage on his site. So it’s just as well that UKShells internal traffic doesn’t get added to my bandwidth, although I might have to rotate my logs more often if he keeps this up…

There’s a few boring website related things planned for the next time I get a chance. I’ll be putting navigation links into the archive pages, so that you can easily read back an forward through them. The front page might get an overhall, and I’ve also been looking at accessibility thanks to Mark Pilgrim’s accessibility guide. I’d been using the abbreviation tag <abbr> to mark up all the abbreviations that I use, but found out that Internet Explorer will only recognise the acronym tag (every other browser recognises both). So rather than splitting hairs over the difference between the two, I’ve changed them all for the underprivileged IE users.

Finally, before I head off to a lecture, a quick hello to another fellow webloger out there. I still haven’t figured out which particular IC Student is responsible for this set of rantings. Honest.

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