06-02-03 @ 11:01 am EDT

I learned how to make dropdown menus over the weekend. Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. ^_^

They are addictive little things. Actually I didn't really learn them so much as type in some info at a site that pops out a code for you to use...but it works good enough...and I didn't have to agonize over it much, except as far as choosing colors was concerned. Cute little dropdown menus! I feel so smart! This is right up there with the time I figured out FIXED BACKGROUNDS and GLOWING LINKS. Coolness!

Consensus seems to be that I should not use them on my online journal as they can be annoying (I guess I have to agree to an extent--for the most part, I don't care for dropdowns, especially when you misclick in them and then hurriedly have to push "Stop" even though mine don't just shuttle you through like that--I don't know the code ^_^ --but I guess I really liked the novelty of them, plus, long sidebars on a short-paged journal bug me), but I'm wondering if I should totally revamp my Ameni Chronicles site to include them. I could use them on the Manitou Island site...but that would be just so much trouble to redo the entire place, when I just gave it a makeover. Plus, I don't think a dropdown would be very helpful on a site that has 110 chapters. And one little dropdown on the main page, leading to the rest of the pages, would just look stupid. But I've long been considering redoing the Chronicles site (it's currently under my old "crappy" journal design, just with different colors, and probably with bad table tags); I just haven't been able to figure out how to handle that sidebar. I WANT a sidebar, but I don't know Javascript and so can't figure out how to make a floating sidebar. Trust me, there's a reason I'm so jazzed about simple dropdown menus, and this is it. I can only handle so much coding on my own before my brain fritzes. It took me an hour or two just to figure out the dropdown thing, and that was WITH a cheat sheet! o_O; "HTML For The Attention-Deficit."

You'd still have to scroll up to the top of the page to view a dropdown, true...but it would not take up a lot of room and it might look nicer, more professional...besides, those floating menus bug me too, always following you around the page like they're God or something, just like those frigging comet cursors or whatever. Word to anybody who thinks little thingies that follow your mouse are cute: THEY'RE NOT!! I was amused the very first time I saw one of those; now, I just find them incredibly annoying. Almost as bad as those freaky Flash and Javascript floating ads that appear out of nowhere--not regular popups, those WEIRD ones that just float there and have to load fully before you can get rid of them, you know what I mean--I hate things following me around the screen! Same goes for unnecessary popups (something that says "Hi!" or gives a quote--for God's sake, can't you just put the text on the PAGE ITSELF?) and for loud music--ANY music--I just cannot, cannot stand music and sound effects on websites. I don't care WHAT it is--if I did NOT specifically go there to listen to audio, I am going to mute it the moment something starts playing or the program messes with my MIDI levels. Dumb audio, messing with my volume, thinking it's God...

Er...what was I talking about...?

My website...? I guess I said about everything I was going to say...hummm...crap, it's eleven already? *sigh* I should really put a notice on the site saying the story is in the process of being completely redone, but I don't think it gets any visitors--at least I've never gotten any weird perverted mail about it--and I'm so lazy...I've been revamping Part 6 or whatever for ages. I DO have most of the new text written, but I just can't for the life of me figure out how to blend the ending erotica scene into the rest of it without it looking like the two parts were just tossed together at random! I finally figure out a way to flesh out the early scenes with some new and pivotal plot (including an explanation behind the attackers in Part 8!), and then something like THIS gets me. o_o; So I'm stuck. I'll figure it out eventually...maybe it was just time for me to give Ameni a break; I HAVE been dwelling on that a lot lately...

Aside from that it's been very, very quiet around here, but that's the way it goes...not that I've had much of anything to draw in comments lately anyway, I guess. *shrug* Oh! I did win first place in a mythology contest recently! I spent the GPs I won on something, too. Hope the person who got it notices when they next log in. :) There weren't many entries in that contest, though, so that's probably the reason I won... I should really write something, but the words don't want to come lately. Maybe I'm depressed? I know I am, about at least ONE thing...but that's already been discussed and from the looks of it the party involved doesn't care to comment...not that I expected them to...

Well, let me change the subject before I'm forced to revert this entry to warning violet. Do I have anything else to write about? I finished that THING that was keeping me so busy so maybe I can find more time to do more important things...like E-MAIL people...how do you guys get it to come so easily to you? I can't figure it out.

I never even mentioned in here that I had a LUCID DREAM a while back! :D It's in my dream journal...not gonna link to it, you can find it on your own...it wasn't momentous or anything, but it WAS lucid, and that was something for me...last night I dreamed I said something about a dachshund which annoyed Ma, and I slid around the house on my feet, holding onto the cat, like I was rollerskating...it was fun, but very weird...

Now if only I could lucid dream about Damien or Djuta or something...*drool* *cough*

I'm even Djuta's type...short and fat and dumpy... >_< Though I'm sure that even Rithukh'het is prettier than me. And he only bought her because she has childbearing hips, and only fell in love with her AFTER that...

Well, I can't think of anything else to type without getting completely sick, so tar for now...