Author Archives: Doug Foxgrover

Tutorials Galore

Started out doing some final styling on the features page. Right as I was about to start tackling the ever annoying plot page CSS I got my lynda account set up and BAM, its now the end of the day. … Continue reading →

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Handheld frustrations

I still have not been able to make the website show up differently on a phone than on the computer screen. I have tried a number of different methods in both the php files and the css files, but my … Continue reading →

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Back on Track

After a brief delay where I realized that I deleted the contents of plotform.php in the collab folder, I got the tabs up and working! I have some basic styling applied, but it doesn’t look that good yet. I also … Continue reading →

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Exploring CSS

I’ve been playing around in CSS tutorials and using CSS to format simple things the past couple of days. Today I tried to figure out how a website might tell when it’s being viewed from a mobile device. I came … Continue reading →

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Moving Into the Plotting

Today was not as productive as I had hoped. I started with the goal of moving the plotting capability into my version of the site, but did not get very far. The process of creating working tabs to control the … Continue reading →

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Site Update and Thoughts

This morning I finished a draft of my “imitation” of the current weather site. I have all the pages except for plotting and the almanac rewritten using CSS and while there are some little style things I can adjust, it’s … Continue reading →

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Wading Through the Charts

Looked through all of the graphing and plotting scripts today, and I think I have found the ones that are currently being used. Overall, they are easy to understand once you give them a thorough read, and I don’t know … Continue reading →

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Site 2.0

Spent today working on my little draft of the site. I basically have all the non-mySql reliant pages up and running with images and everything. It’s basically what I had a week ago, but this time done with CSS. Tomorrow … Continue reading →

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The Apple II

Yesterday’s big excitement was getting the Apple II up and running. The final working setup is the Apple II computer, the monochrome Zenith monitor, and the connected 5.25″ disk drives and Epson MX80 printer, both of which were originally hooked … Continue reading →

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It Lives!

Spent the morning researching client vs. server side code. Javascript is one of the main client side languages while PHP is one of the main server-side languages. I poked around the current graphing scripts quickly and I think we may … Continue reading →

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