Making A Client Side Image Map Is Hard

I had all of these great ideas as to how I was going to make this nice gif image as an image map.

I'd make the arrows invisible so that when you hovered over the arrows the highlight feature which I always use for links would be seen through. It has always worked when I used the whole image as a link without an image map so naturally I thought it would work with an image map. Wrong! Unless I'm missing something, it just can't be done. Blegh.

I've always "thought" that I knew how to make an image map. I just never had the need to make one before. I started making one earlier today and when I tested it out nothing happened. I got online and started searching all my favorite sites on how to make them. Every one of them has their own way of making them. So now I've made like seven of them and all of them have their own little problems. I am so frustrated right now.

I guess I'll keep looking and keep testing until I find one that's perfect. Unfortunately, if I never get this highlight thing to work, I'm going to have to make several different images for the several different combinations of arrows that can be used... Not looking forward to that.

Weight: 176lbs

Updating... And Watering Plants

I feel like I've accomplished something today. Got all those meta tags updated and such. The game stuff can wait but the rest is all done. Woo hoo.

Makes me think, though, of all the other stuff I've been procrastinating on. I need to wash the clothes, clean my room and give the dog a bath... gettin' a little smelly there, uhuh. Hm, should probably clean up this ever growing pile of papers in front of me, too.

Weight: 175lbs

Geocities vs. W3C Compliant and CSS

I've spent the last two weeks making one of my websites W3 validated and converting it to CSS at the same time. It took a while, but I made it. My website is completely converted and completely W3C validated. That is, until I uploaded it to my web host.

I really don't understand why geocities insists on closing tags that were never open. Look at any geocities website and you'll see that the server spits out a long list of ending tags. Why is this necessasary? Was there actually some kind of problem that made them start doing this? Did someone just up and decide one day, oh this would be a great idea! I don't mind the advertisements. I really don't. But is it too much to ask for to make the server generated scripts W3C compliant? They should have an option when you first decide to open an account with them that asks " Do you really know what you're doing?" Cause' I do know what I'm doing. I don't need any help from them. I can close my own tags.

I love my new site design. It's so much more professional looking. Visit www.geocities.com/spygirls575/ only if you are a girl.

Weight: 176lbs