I'm in the process of rewriting some of the generalized content around Sodapop.nu. I think I'm also about to shift around everything in some new way because right now I dislike how not everything matches (all the category pages are different, static pages themselves look different... annoying!).

And I found out the other day that my nifty little navigation bar on the index page doesn't work so great in resolutions lower than a certain number of pixels (like on my vertically-turned iPhone T_T) because that area is fixed-positioned in the browser window and won't scroll if it all won't fit. It just cuts it off and the links disappear! Poo. Maybe I can give it a fixed width and see if it works? ... Anyway, I might have to rethink it anyway if I'm changing other stuff around.

So part of this is just me trying to make the site more friendly, and part of it is also that there's always been this divide between the people who I can and "can't" share this site with. I'm really tired of that. My number one goal is to get this site posted on my personal Facebook. (Unless I come up with some horrifying reason why I shouldn't do that, which always seems to happen.)(Fingers crossed!)

This is really for you if you're a software developer

I don't know what it is about my mom and my boyfriend, but somehow whenever I try using their computers it always seems some new program has installed itself on their machines, changed their default search pages, and caused other unwanted chaos with their web browsers. What do you two do? It's a hostile world. Be careful what you look at and click on!

Anyway, the real point of this post was that I wanted to complain about the way Firefox has it's 'change your home page' action set up. I just tried to recover my boyfriend's computer from the clutches of some auto-installing program and toolbar ad-on that hijacked his default homepage, and had to look up on Google how to manually change the homepage because I couldn't figure it out and got annoyed. And I consider myself a fast learner and can usually intuitively figure things like this out. I also basically breathe this "web stuff" because I'm a student and will eventually be a professional web designer/developer. So,

DEAR MOZILLA: DRAGGING SOME ICON NEXT TO A WEB ADDRESS IN THE FIREFOX URL BAR TO ANOTHER BUTTON IN THE BROWSER WINDOW IS THE OPPOSITE OF INTUITIVE. How the heck should I know that I can click and then drag one button, and then place it on something else? At least on a desktop computer and not a mobile device, where input is finger based and dragging is a little more expected. You should be kicked for this. At least in lieu of another method to reset the homepage at will. Like, you know, that involves right clicking. Or the browser's menu. Or, even better, ALL THREE.

And while I'm at it, dear generalized developers:
Whenever things, interfaces specifically, get simplified too much...  Make sure that "advanced" users can still access "advanced" features in a more "non-simplified" way. We're still out here. And we get pissy. Especially when "simplification" doesn't work as intended. Thank you.