Hopefully no one tried to visit my site yesterday evening with Internet Explorer or you would have been met with a nasty crash. I finally narrowed it down to a new image popup script I had installed. Everything should be fixed now. If you visit some of my pages I have a new image pop up that overlays the web page when you click on an image. It’s really nice, as long as it doesn’t crash the site.

, originally uploaded by Ryan Smith Photography.

I think I finally got this out of focus effect like I’ve been trying to do for a while. I saw an example on someone else’s site that I liked, and this is almost like it. I used a bit of Photoshop to get the effect as well.

You probably can’t tell a lot from looking at the site, but I’ve been doing a ton of cleaning and changes to the code. I’m now implementing CSS properly where I have all my styles in an attached style sheet instead of specified on each page. And I’m using PHP includes to bring in all the content that is the same across all my pages. It’s a lot of work now, but it makes changes in the future so much easier. For example my main menu is now brought into each page with php, and if I want to make a change, I change one php file and all my pages are updated. I changed my server settings to parse my .htm pages as php so I don’t have to change every page to .php to use php code. CSS is amazing once you really start to understand how to implement it. Gone are the days of creating a website from a bunch of tables. I haven’t built a website in years, and it’s so much easier now than it used to be to make it look nice. By the way my drop down menus are all done with CSS, no flash.