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If this is the first time visiting let me explain the purpose of this site. The domain name mage.net is a local domain name at IP 65.19.238.229. This is where I develop sites prior to being uploaded to the host server. The sites found here are a mis-matched group of both personal and commercial projects. Most of the development is oriented towards writing and improving better back-end code for web pages. Also, I will be posting updates as to various web projects here. Been working on better cross-browser support, particularitly between Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Corrected some big issues with a small fix, Firefox terminates an HTML comment with only '--' where IE requires '-->', so all the areas that were commented this way were completely commented out in FF. I'm still trying to figure out a good way to handle window & element heights between the two browsers, may have to lay this to rest for the moment as it is an incompatibility issue between the browsers and I've to see a very clean & solid work around. An example of this issue can be seen by loading the second artile under articles in the menu using Firefox, or follow this link Article 2. FOLLOW-UP!!! I think I got it! The "browser standard" is to use min-height in css rather then height, but IE translates height to min-height but does not use min-height directly is my understanding. I've seen it proposed to set height only when IE is detected, I don't see why to bother, just set them both and move on. So for example style="height:100%; min-height:100%". Still open to feed-back on this. Corrected another cross-browser issue with the year format. Replaced the javascript function getYear() with getFullYear()... no biggy. I'm still trying to figure out a certain behavior in Firefox. Some HTML tags cause an extra line to be inserted in the page messing up the formating, for example the </UL> does this. It seems to be more block tags that cause this, for example I replaced <p align="center"></p> with <center></center> and the inserted lines went away. I'm not sure why, any insight would be appriciated... 2007.06.29 Completed the upload function. It now has the ability to delete and rename, it also adjust subfolders containing thumb images etc. The GD2 graphics libraries have all been added to the server for full image support. 2007.06.27 There has been some really good progress! Secure login using MD5 encryption is now in place for this site. A dynamic javascript module for a collapsing menu is working 100%. And MySQL database is up and running on the local server. All menu and META tags are now handled with database. Also added a new fixed background for site pages. Fixed the menu disappearing issue when content text files where saved. Fixed javascript time format in page header, also added date string. 2007.06.09 This was a big day in the world of code. Got the WYSIWYG text editor working with support for ALL areas of the site that are set to use an included text file for their content, works nicely!  Also got the uploader working, still need to do a bit of formatting. I would also like to add some folders for organization to the upload folder.2007.06.08 The FTP server is now fully up, working, and integrated with Apache for multiple logins on the testing server according to user name. The webserver is up with users chrooted, access to site on the test server is http://65.19.238.229/your_sites_name. Webalizer is installed and working. Upgraded the gateway router firmware for better security and user compatibility. Made some real progress on the WYSIWYG editor! YAAA!! Finally. I'll be using the FCKeditor. Now I am tired and going to bed. 2007.06.07 Moved web server from older Dell Optplex GX110 to a new server which is a IBM 3.2GHZ / 1GB SDRAM / 1GB Ethernet / 1TB SATA in a RAID 1 configuration running Debian 4.0. Got most of the Apache stuff up, still working on best configuration for multiple websites under one IP without any domain names.... Configured proFTPd 1.30 for access, this seems to be working good. Still working on getting phpMyAdmin up. 2007.06.06 Corrected some of the layout on the gallery module and added link back to homepage. Also, upgraded the quality of the content areas on main page template. 2007.06.05 I've been working like crazy on some of the supporting modules for basic websites. Currently I just got a working version of my image gallery module up and going, it can be seen at vanpittack.com. It is still a little buggy. Thanks to the incredible package of wiggets provided by BlueShoes.org, it saved a lot of time writting javascripts. The slider for page selection needs tuning, the layout is pretty rough, just wanted to make sure that page selection and roll-over effects were working. The file uploader is not public yet doing to a design issue. The thumb and preview images are created and placed in a cache directory when a file is uploaded, however, on big files the browser sometimes times-out... not sure what to do with this, any ideas would be welcome! Also, I'm still looking for some solid but simple code for a secure login for accessing administrative pages. I'm a bit leary of making any administrative pages live until there is security (for obvious reasons!). WEB SERVER
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