Well, the good news is the rollovers work.

The bad news is, as it currently stands (and you will notice if you clicked on the link), I preload every image that is part of the rollover. Which means on a 56K you have to wait about 20 seconds for the page to load. This will not do. I'll either have to reduce the file-size further, which could ruin the image quality (depending) or abandon the preload, which would still result in a delay on slower connections for the rollover image to be called. My kingdom for universal broadband!!

The worse news is an unforeseen problem with the "Analysis" and "Media" section. See, the JavaScript relies on the default image being given a specific name. This tells the code "Oh, it's "X", that means I need to take this image out and replace it with that image." This works fine when there's a single image, but in the Analysis and Media sections, I sliced the image into smaller ones so I can use the picture box as a secondary navigation bar. For the rollover to work effectively A) the images need to be the same size and B) it can only swap one image for one image. So, in a nutshell, the multiple-rollover code will not work on those pages.

The only option would be for me to make an image map. For you non web-savvy peoples, that means taking a single image and plotting points on the image that would become "hot", and enable linking. This way I can have one image and swap that out when the rollover code goes into effect. My only concern is if the conflicting code sets (one for the image map, one for the rollover) won't fuck the other up.

And I was so close.

On the bright side, I am listening to Tori Amos's "Best of", Tales of a Librarian. In my spare time I can go into this in more detail, but suffice to say, every song has been remixed, and two B-sides completely re-recorded, along with two new songs and a bonus DVD, making this compilation well worth the money. AND "WAY DOWN" NOW INCLUDES THE BACKING CHOIR WITHOUT ACCOMPANIMENT!!! They essentially take the chorus track and tacked it on to the end of the song without mixing in any of the other tracks so all you get is the choir singing--that alone is well worth the price of the CD.

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If you loved Tori, you'd understand.

I have more to write. I was going to get to "Mother's and Sons Pt 2" and I think there was another entry I wanted to make that I'm blanking on completely . . . but I'm blanking. It's also ten to midnight and I'm tired and I'm coming down with a cold. (Wait! I think I wanted to blog about coming down with the cold and my financial battle plan and probably ruminate on my Love of Most Things Amos, and playing Diablo II last night and-- oh fuck it; it'll have to wait.)

Sleep and dream time. But, see, I am updating my blog, dammit. So quit yer whinning!! this shit ain't easy, dammit!!