February 3, 2005
posted by Colleen Shirazi at
1:07 PM (Pacific)
Okay, now it's 98% of the screen...yeah...so I have to replace the text link with a leaderboard.
It may not be obvious, but this entire site was created using a Java compiler I got for $30 in 1998. It's a Java compiler...the Symantec one...it doesn't do HTML templates.
Ergo, changing the ads on the site involves a Java program I wrote myself. I suppose ultimately all of the pages on the site should be comprised of marker tags for the program...eh...the thing is this. thebroadroom is, on purpose, mostly an old-style HTML, text-based site.
I've thrown in some Flash because Coffee Cup was nice enough and smart enough, to have a promotion for their software; I got the Flash editor. We don't need Flash but we do need Flash...to modernize the appearance of the site.
You will note how slow I am to change the technologies that form the core of thebroadroom. i.e. the site has to run on older computers and even older browsers.
lol--not everyone thinks that way. Part of the concept of using stuff that works only on the newest-newest, is that obviously you filter out the people who can't afford the newest-newest.
That said, I have been turning it around in my mind to a.) stop babbling and get that leaderboard up and b.) replace the applet on the front page with Flash. sigh Haven't decided yet.
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