You probably know that it’s my hobby and as of now my only income source to make websites. While doing so, i often meet problems that are complicated to solve, not because of their complexity, but because i have to optimise for all the browsers i can: FireFox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Netscape, just to name those i can test with. Having a couple of versions for each (especially IE is problematic), that’s at least four browsers to optimise to, and that already makes the creation of a relatively simple floated layout a nightmare.

But what was even more troubling for me is the usage of JavaScript. I know there are loads of possibilities in it (think of the dynamically created websites, the reload-less page loads and such), but i also know there are people, even if just a few, who browse without JS—not to mention that search engine crawlers don’t have JS either (nor do spam bots), which is useful to know when you’re protecting your forms from spam, but troublesome when you need to develop a website for the top of the search engine result list and for the everyday “lame” users.

Speechless. A bit hard to start writing a post, when i sit down in front of the keyboard, and look at the screen, and nothing comes across my mind. Some ancient and funny Pendulum-remix doom-dooms its way out of the speakers, and after a nine mile bikeride i’m “caught somewhere in time”. I’ve done a layout, that’s probably the future skin of all valerauko.net sites (most of which is not yet present, or not in the form they will be). It may end up an open-source content management system, since that’s exactly what i need. A small and powerful back-end, which can be converted virtually into anything using modules and plugins. This idea just popped out of my mind, but i think i could integrate my current blog plans into this script. Based PHP and MySQL, it’s going to be simple (as simple as could be), customisable (absolutely), powerful and fast (i hope). It’s not going to come out fast, i’m afraid… My summer is a bit stuffed already. I think i’ll only have free time in the end of August, i mean free time more than a day. I like it if i know what’s going to happen around me, but i don’t like it if i have no freedom, because everything’s planned, and each day has something to do. The next: math exam, monday.

The thing is, i still haven’t started learning for my exams, though they are nearing scary. I’ll have to start with the grammar questions, then come math… Math is the closest, ninth of june. The others are the end of june, but i just borrowed the grammar ones, that’s why it has priority. Tomorrow in the morning and in the early afternoon i’ll be working on my current job, a website for a textile merchant, which will be completed in the matter of days, then come the registration process, which takes a while in hungary—at least it took a while when i first registered valerauko.net at a local registrar. After that i’ll be reading, i still have about a hundred pages from the book i’m into nowadays, i want to finish it. Later i plan to start copying the grammar questions (that’d be enough for a first turn of learning), then complete the new version of the past vDesign, which is everything but up to date and good-looking. It was quite a while since i did that one, and it was only in a few days that i realised that the top banner at Athina’s blog is made using the same pattern. The very same. I’m proud (joking). By the way, the new version will be very trendy web2.0 style, but i tried to make it a bit original. And from now on, i’ll be paying close attention to my projects, so they’ll look good on my reference page. Yeah. Business is getting more speed.