THE PLOT THICKENS!

When I first uploaded my pretty Rococo layout for Sodapop.nu with Filezilla, I made a note here about how it exploded into a fit of Chinese characters. Re-uploading everything with the control panel File Manager seemed to fix the problem, but I wasn't exactly sure why. And went on with life.

Cut to about a week ago, and I discovered that my pretty Rococo layout was looking pretty lame in Firefox. The style sheet wasn't working/loading. I finally tried to fix this ominous problem today, and found out: a) Firefox wants everything to be encoded the same way, style sheet or html (and gets pissed and won't display the style sheet if the encoding doesn't match); b) Filezilla works only with ASCII or UTF-8; c) if you try to upload something encoded in Unicode with Filezilla, it turns into a fit of Chinese characters (what happened to the Rococo layout the first time I tried uploading it); d) re-saving all of my files (css included!) for this layout in UTF-8 and re-uploading them with Filezilla seemed to fix everything. I think. Sometimes my style sheets still weren't showing up in Firefox, but it worked once so I think it might be a cache problem?

I hate webdesigners. And Firefox. All of this mess just because I wanted cute little hearts and saved my text files in Unicode to keep them. :/

SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLIFY.

My bad.

I just realized that none of the links on the 'sites' page of the new layout actually went anywhere. Oops. :P

While I like the impression this gives regarding my state of affection for my uploaded* creations right now, I've fixed it.

Also, Nandaba.net is now dead, so Elsewhere is temporarily(?) gone, which you may have noticed if you scrupulously memorized my sites list probably didn't notice. But, since I have all of the files for episodes 1 & 2, I was thinking that if I'm feeling particularly bored and/or ambitious someday I might end up uploading them anyway, just for the sake of FLCL. But this really shouldn't be high on my priority list.

* A distinction that I would like to make clear, as I have a ton of not-yet-finished or uploaded things that I tend to like. Very much.

I changed the "layout" for this.

And by that I mean, I changed the template and the fonts and the colors, because I'm retarded and can't figure out how to do much else. But it looks infinitely better.

I'm not sure what a picture of myself with my doppelganger has to do with anything, but... it's creepy! No longer boring! And better than the other picture I wanted to use of my cat in my refrigerator (this sounds less sick if I tell you that she happened to jump in there when I was pouring milk for my cereal, and I was quick enough to get a picture), or something completely off the wall like Samejima Mamimi.

Finally, a layout with adequate text space.

You can thank Marie Antoinette for saving Sodapop.nu. No jokes. I've been striving to come up with a new name for months, and while I was putting up this layout I decided that the name Sodapop.nu wasn't the problem.

Also, apparently text files saved in Unicode are too much for Filezilla to handle, because when I first uploaded the layout it exploded into a fit of Chinese characters. Oddly enough though my little hearts still showed up, the whole reason behind saving the file in Unicode? Whatever. I re-uploaded everything with the control panel FTP client and it seemed to work fine. :P