jQuery. Heh. And here I thought it was some JavaScript interface to databases, or for data processing. Where has it been all my (web development related) life?

This demonstrates how little I know in some areas while knowing so much in others. Not the first time I've been put off a language/library because of it's name. JavaScript did the same. C# too.

Anyway, my heinous misconceptions were cured after I mirrored almost the entire w3schools site. It's useful to have an always-there offline reference.

So, now I'm spicing up my client's site a bit. I'm keeping all the information on one page, sorting it visually with jQuery.

At the moment, there's a large photo dominating the left 75% of the center column (AKA: The only column), and I need space to display the restaurant's menu, contact information, twitter feed and Google Maps locator.

And now I have an elegant solution. Feed the data into empty <div> blocks on document load, and have them start off in the hidden state. Fade the picture out, use the callback to replace with the required information. Boom. Solved most of my design problems right there (With regards to 'where the fuck do I put this stuff?' related problems).

I'm trying to avoid a site with too much scrolling here, because it's not going to be displaying a lot of information, just a few simple things (About the location, the food, etc). And above all, the owner wants to be able to easily modify the menu and photo, on a daily basis.

I live in a holiday town, by the way. Velddrif. Boring fishing village with an entire 'Tourist' quarter (A whole residential district filled with empty-almost-the-entire-year houses). They come here for the wonderfully pungent odour of fishmeal being made. Stupid tourists :P

I guess the river, wildlife, boating, fishing, beaches and the massive Shopping Mall in The Middle of Nowheretm count as attractions too. >_>

Anyway…

I'm drawing something ridiculously complex.

That says it all, with the exception of what I'm drawing, and the pain it causes me…

As I mentioned on Eva-Unit's blog, I felt like drawing. So I started a steampunk inspired mecha. And it's taking me forever to get done:

Partial progress update

Here's the painful part: My mouse isn't working properly. It keeps cutting out, double clicking randomly, and generally glitching. It's a Logik as well. The cheap not-afraid-to-call-itself-a-shitty-product mouse I have on my desk works better, but I can't use it. [/irony]

Why? It's USB cable is too short, and I loaned somebody the only extension cable I have. No, I can't ask for it back, it's actually their cable, I just possessed it on an extended loan (Since 2010).

I'm definitely going to buy myself a new mouse, because this is hurting my productivity in more ways than one.

Anyway, back to GIMP, Notepad++, and the w3schools mirror :P

Feel free to donate a new mouse via Quantum Gating.

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