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In the summer between my eighth and ninth grades I was one of the most frequent posters to a local BBS. After my morning paper route I would call up on the 300 baud modem connected to our Atari 800 hooked up to the TV set and read and type away. Then I'd watch Robotech and fall asleep on the couch.
I'm reminded of all this thanks to the song below. I'm glad the BBS archives are probably lost to the ages.
I've updated the theme for the GollyGee Blocks Activity Guide web pages. It's not done yet but it's better than the theme we've been using. The theme is an adaption of the "Franchise" theme from Sandvox Web Designs. It cost $12.99. Sandvox comes with some great themes but none of them were really quite right for us, when I saw this I knew right away it would be easy to repurpose for our needs.
Someday maybe we'll be able to pay a web designer to come up with this stuff, but for now I think it was $13 well spent.
I've updated the GollyGee Blocks Screenshots page. I haven't actually updated the screenshots (which actually are a bit out of date, there's a few more buttons along the side now), but I did make them easier to look at -- when you click on the thumbnails, they open up without changing the web page.
Here's an example:
I'm using a script called Lightbox JS to do this, but I got the idea when I saw Cabel's FancyZoom. FancyZoom is pretty cool, but it looks a little clunky on Windows with IE6. About 25% of our web site visitors are using IE6, so I decided to go with Lightbox even though it's not quite as fancy.
Hopefully this will be the first of many updates to our website over the coming months.