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Bodie's Pages Notes |
One of the most counter-intuitive programs I've encountered in a long time. Maybe it's just my basic ignorance of HTML and web page design in general, but I like to think I'm good at learning new applications. But this SOB is kicking my butt! Anyone know a good web site for tips and tricks? Among other things, I can't figure out how to position graphics (or insert text boxes) where ever I want to on the page. I'm having to justify right or left and wrap text around it, but it isn't really WYSIWYG. I have a lot more control over images in Word, and have tried creating the page in Word, then importing it into Frontpage, but that didn't work, bummer. And how do I set single-spacing in my paragraphs? This does import from Word ok, but if I start with a blank page I'm SOL. I'd like one line between "logical place." (above), and the title of this section, "Microsoft Front Page." Wait, just figured that one out. Default line spacing is wacked, I need to set it for the paragraph. Why did the color of the text in some of my pictures (.gif format, converted automatically by FrontPage from bitmap source, to allow text) revert to a blue-gray color, no matter how it appears in the editor itself? Other pictures on the same page appear in the desired color. Only thing I can think of that's different is that I tried more than one color on the bad ones, before settling upon one, only to find it's that blue-grey in the browser. And why the hell can't I right click to paste an URL into the target address field when adding a hyperlink? Good thing I'm one of those old DOS weirdos who likes shortcuts like Control + V.
Bodhi vs. Bodie - What's in a Name? It's confirmed, Bodie is a good dog! Check out this article from Zen Unbound Emagazine. Apparently, the dog name, Bodie, has origins in several different cultures around the world. But it appears that I've mis-spelled his name, it being closer to the Scottish origin than the Buddhist form, the latter more accurately describing his personality. (Or is that "dogality?")
No, not Revisionist History, Dubya's new favorite buzzword. This page will probably be an ongoing work, constantly being changed. I'll be keeping track of modifications here, should you wish to see what's new. 3/16/03 Bodie the Dog is online! Site still officially under construction. 6/?/03 No longer officially under construction, but still experimenting with different page formats. 6/29/03 First batch of pics posted to Tea Kettle Junction gallery. Added to rants against war and ranting about rants. Posted trip report, "Caldera Motocross 1999." 7/10/03 Added new page, road_notes.htm. Changed some wording in left title bar. Updated rants to note the bogus ticket I just got in the mail. 7/15/03 Added the Dog's bark to home page. Cool, getting to be more multimedia! Added some more Tea Kettle pics, but I need some pre-1999 versions. 7/16/03 Revised some page headings, but short term memory loss prevented me from doing so consistently. Will do.... Posted draft Rock Art page, adding links on other Scenics pages. 7/17/03 Added rant on Secret Fishing holes. Some changes to left title bar. 9/5/03 Scrapped the FrontPage-generated gallery to create my own to the Tea Kettle page. This auto-generated gallery thangy just didn't display right in Netscape, and I ended up with smaller file sizes doing it myself. Plus adheres more to my "just the facts" style of information display, straight columns, boxes to separate sections; hey, art will come later! Still gotta link from thumbnails on Tea Kettle page to the big pics. Also changed my email address from bodie_dog@hotmail.com to bodiethedog@infostations.com. Hotmail's attachment size limit may be stopping cool stuff from getting to me. Oh, I also dropped the opening bark. Seems like that annoys me sometimes when other web pages suddenly shout something through my speakers. 9/6/06 Published the Cowboy Myth rant. Credits go to my professor of U.S. History at Humboldt State University, who lectured on the subject. The guy is a very entertaining lecturer. One day when he was late to class, his excuse was that he'd forgotten where he parked his car the night before. Oh, the "Why People as Seen in the Movie, Deliverance, Still Live Today in Northern California" lecture was in my required Ethnic Studies class, by a local Hupa Elder. Here's the lecture, in short: the people living in towns like Denny, Trinity County, are descended from gold miners who arrived in the mid to late 1800's. While many good people came to mine gold here, the majority were the scum of society. One had to be a dreamer or pretty desperate to drop everything and travel across the country (or around the horn) to search for gold. The lure of gold also drew the usual share of criminals. But by the 1850's, the prime Mother Lode gold fields had been identified and claimed, leaving lean areas like the North West coast open to the really poor and desperate, and other "lower" castes like the Chinese and Native Americans. But a bounty system and organized slavery took care of the Native Americans (read up on the massacre at Tuluwat, for more info), and newspaper-organized lynch mobs took care of those greedy chinese (Eureka, CA, used to have a Chinatown greater in size than the one in San Francisco). So these "low men" (as Stephen King would call them) settled in small, isolated mining communities, started breeding among cousins, then worked with Mercury (an essential element of the mining process) for their entire lives, producing successively stupider and genetically-damaged generations, devolving even, at a faster rate than the rest of society due to the girls' propensity to get pregnant in their early teens. Phew, that was quite a lecture. 9/18/03 Dangit, having problems with hover text not appearing in Netscape, a background picture not appearing in any browser, and links that don't (the mouse pointer doesn't change shape when hovering over it, either). I need to add text labels, probably a good standard anyway. 9/20/03 Added some of my own camping tips, as well as my camping gear list. Got some more ideas on the tea kettle junction, just need some time to implement them.... 10/18/03 removed Cowboy Rant, too much politics distracting from my other rants. I'll create a new page devoted to how screwed up the current U.S. Government is. 2/15/04 Whoa, been a while since an update. Just added an animated banner on my Rants page. 2/25/04 Found a dead link, uh oh, my bad, so replaced it with some more scenes. 2/27/04 Changes some links, moving the Misc. Pics page underneath "Scenics." Fixed some inconsistencies in other page layouts. 3/31/04 Oops, received notice from my ISP that I've exceeded my disk quota, so I had to cut some pics from the scenics and resize/modify a couple tea kettle pics (apologies to original photographers). 6/2/04 That little disk space quota issue caught up to me. In a hurry so just cut the misc. pictures section. 2/26/05 Added Trip #4, searching for caves and rock art. Add link to my Links page. Tied up a few other loose ends. 8/1/08 Removed the rock art and Steele Pass pages, in preparation for adding some more teakettles. Removed links to it from other pages. Let's find a hit counter, too. 8/3/08 Found some teakettle pics, so have inserted sources and dates, pics to follow. Added links from all other pages. Created a page devoted to whacky Republicans. |
