I'm a very happy Webmaster tonight.. I taught myself a new trick while building this new site which I think needs revealing. I have discovered a new way to show images on your website and write local directory links so the images appear on every page no matter what page the directory is located! Sounding too good enough to be true? Ooooo, read on!
The first attempt to my new website was a considerable success. There were a few images missing from the archive pages and I forgot a tag or two but really -- all I had left in me was a gasp of astonishment because I was truly exhilarated. Tired, but exhilarated nonetheless so a gasp was all I could produce ;o)
This image disappearing problem I have faced in the past, and found several workarounds from endless forum discussions, enough to choke a giraffe, but I never could complete the task without some sort of sacrifice or dissatisfaction.
Determined, I set aside a short rest for myself to think, and here I am again.. hacking away. If you have knowledge of the server design, I will tell you a little story:
Realizing My Doom
A long, long time ago, I was a little peon just learning to make little <a's> and little <div's> and it was so fun I kept going and going and so on and so on until finally one day I messed up the directory on my server so bad with folders that I just couldn't stand it anymore and I wanted to point my domain name to another folder in my linux-box, one that was EMPTY. Plus, I just didn't like the looks of htdocs/myfolder/robinanndotcom/ I wanted a NEW folder, something pretty like htdocs/sunrise/sunset/sunflowers/ and then, I then realized my doom...
This website redesign, equipped with blog of course, has my full attention. So this setback of the past has irked me since I started making 'real' websites.. you know, the ones where you buy your own domain, point the names to the servers, write crazy custom links, redirects, renaming directories, ftp'ing, ssh'ing and this and that and this and that...
The results are posted here -- if you view source you will find a common id class for placement and size and an individual paragraph class for each picture. A larger page of example will follow along in thie description series.
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