Archive for October, 2004

One ok photo from our busy afternoon of guests, roller skates, and drinking.

Sections Updated: Photo Diary

I had anticipated that we may get in to see this movie, and we finally did tonight. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a movie that you have to see just because you haven’t seen anything like it.

Sections Updated: Movies P-R

This is another house we looked at last week, on a last minute notice as our realtor called up and arranged a showing on the spot, that was intriguing.

An older home that had been kept up really nice, there was new carpet and huge rooms. Both the dining room and living room were enormous with two large bedrooms. The upstairs reminded me of my Aunt Pat’s old house, just large enough maybe for a daybed and an unfinished attic that could be made into a perfect playroom.

It had a lot of character. There was a back exit out of the driveway to the alley behind the house. There was an enormous walk through closet from the dining room to one of the bedrooms and it had built in shelves and a enclosed porch.

The only downside was the price, and I didn’t have the emotional reaction I did to the other house in Beech Grove. As much as I liked the inside of this house, I almost couldn’t picture myself living there. But if it is still on the market in a couple of months and comes down in price significantly, it is enough of a “move in” house that I would consider it.

I uploaded another photo of a house here in Beech Grove that we liked, just not as strongly as the other home that is now long gone. We’ll have to wait and see, this house should have sold by now considering our track record of three to four days after we view a home it is off the market.

Sections Updated: Photo Diary

Using images on regular HTML buttons is something I have discovered in the last five months that can really help with the graphical appearance of a static form. Here is an example of a graphical button and the code;

Now granted, this is a quick example I pulled from my image archive, but you can design anything you want and use it in it’s place, here is the code;

<input type=”image” src=”/images/design/why_question.gif” alt=”Submit Button” />

The thing that is most important about graphic buttons is to use the alt attribute and here is why. Most browsers have options to turn off the downloading of images. Some people who have slow connections take advantage of this option, and therefore you button won’t be downloaded, and without an alt attribute, the user wont’ have any way of using a form, or any indication that there should have been a button there.

However, if you include the “alt” attribute, that alt text will come up in the dimensions of the button and the user will still be able to click the text instead. (This also helps if you are lazy and forget to check your link, and it becomes broken.)

I left out the “src” attribute for the input field below and look what the alt text does.

Sections Updated: HTML Coding

I decided that three weeks was long enough to wait for one movie (The Terminal) and since it was on it’s last times, I made the heavy decision to set up a tape and record Boston vs. New York Game 1 of the ALCS. It was a good decision, and I got the best of both worlds:)

Sections Updated: Movies S-T

Another Steven Spielberg / Tom Hanks Triumph. Tom Hanks yet again carried this movie, making it interesting from the start to the end.

Tom plays Victor Navorski, a mild manner, genuinely nice guy whose country is in shambles after he makes the trip to America and is “forced” to live out of an airport in New York. A funny and touching movie, you laugh when Tom is having dinner with Catherine Zeta Jones and his Indian friend is juggling plates in the background, and you cry when he finally reveals what is in his Planters peanut jar and the “promise” that drove this trip to America and kept him going during nine months of life in an airport.

Only turned into Hollywood mush for a brief scene that doesn’t interrupt the main plot line, you have quirky relatable characters that you can empathize with, and you have a great original story, which really isn’t too common anymore.