Last Chance The personal blog of Kiara Gilbert

Updates, new content section, and the past few days

Okay, I think I've gotten the layout converted to fluid correctly... at least, it looks good on my monitor. :) Hopefully it'll work with other resolutions; I'm going to check it on my mom and my grandmother's computers tomorrow while they're at work. I haven't started on the CSS yet; either cleaning it up or doing another stylesheet for Internet Explorer, but I'll do that tomorrow as well. I also need to fix the flickr plugin widget; in Opera, the pictures run over the sidebar into the main content area and it's not centered, which annoys me. Then, when I'm done with all of that, I need to go through all my other websites and see what needs to be fixed for other browsers. I also want to contact the girl who hosts my collective domain, chibitenshi.net; I haven't touched it in years, and she and I don't talk anymore, so I want to move it over to my space at Host Gator (right now, she pays for the domain name itself and then hosts it for free on her server). I still want to keep it, though - that way I can organize my sites a bit more, instead of having all of them under EoS.net.

Oh, before I forget - I got a domain for my blog. I heard about this site, CO.CC, who are offering free domain names. Yes, you read that right - I said free. To me, it sounds too good to be true, so I decided to sign up and see what would happen. Well, what happened was I got a free domain - lastchancelastdance.co.cc. Pretty long URL, but the other URLs I tried (lastchance, last-chance, last-dance and lastdance) were all taken or $3/year (which is still really, really cheap, but my main purpose in signing up was to determine if the free ones were legit or not). lastchancelastdance.co.cc will point to this blog sometime within the next 48 hours, after the DNS propagates. Some of their domains you have to pay for, but $3... that's the cheapest I've ever seen a domain name. Some of them are more, going up to a hundred dollars or more a year to register. They also have an option where if you donate $10 or more, you can register up to 100 domains. I've also grabbed kiaragilbert.co.cc for my portfolio; it was free as well, and will be pointing to the right place within the next 48 hours. I tried to get kiara.co.cc, but it was $23 a year to register. Oh well. :) I haven't decided if I want to just point lastchancelastdance.co.cc to the directory here for my blog, or if I want to move my blog over (yay for having tons of hosting space and the ability to have add on domains!). I need to find out, first, if I can backup everything and then upload the backup if I move it, because I do not want to lose everything that's here - that's happened way too many times in the past year or so.

Right now I want to introduce a new section of the site - tutorials! I don't have any up yet, but there's a nice long list of tutorials I will be putting up. I'm working on a few different ones right now; as soon as I finish tweaking them, they'll be added to the list. I wish I could find a plugin that would display recently added and/or modified pages, like the recent comments and recent posts plugins. For all I know, there is one, I just haven't found it. Anyone else know of one? If there's not one, I wish I knew how to code plugins... I'd do it myself. :/ Oh well. Something else to learn down the road, perhaps?

The past few days have been busy. Well, technically, only Saturday was. I watched my nephews that morning from 7 am to about 3:30, and then again from 7 pm to about 2 am. I was exhauseted. Saturday morning, before it got too hot, I dropped JD off here with my mom and took Ariel & Shay to the park for about an hour. Ariel had been up all night, so about noon she started getting fussy. Adam had told me that he'd be picking the boys up about one anyway, so we came back here and I fed them lunch. The three of us ended up falling asleep in my room while watching Peter Pan, heh. Adam called around two and mom told him the boys were both asleep, so he decided to wait to pick the boys up until after they'd woken up. I watched them for a little while today, too (and by today, I mean Sunday)  - Adam had been working on this guy Mike's car (one of Prissy's co-workers), doing the brakes, and the guy left and broke down. Prissy called me and asked me if I was done eating dinner (I was over at Mike & Francis' eating hamburgers - I'd already been over to Adam's about twenty or thirty minutes earlier, and got sent to Auto Zone to get a tool... heh). I said I was, and she asked me if I could watch the boys. Shay was already asleep, so he must've been really tired. JD went to sleep about fifteen minutes after Adam & Prissy left, and about ten minutes later they got back with Mike's car. But I have done so much walking and running this weekend that when I stand up, my leg muscles scream in protest. It's not very fun.

I'm extremely proud of myself for the work I've done this past week. It's mostly been my own sites that I've been doing, but that's fine - I'm getting back into the swing of it. I remember a lot more then I thought I did, so that was a nice surprise. I feel extremely productive. :)