Nice weekend

Saturday morning I was looking forward to putting the finishing touches to the website upgrade when a critical problem arose.  The test window I had been using to show my redesign was not maximized and when it was, the page went all over the place.  I had to redesign the redesign to make sure everything stayed in the right position no matter the window size.  I was not able to work on it as much as I would have liked as I had to pop to Holy Family to get a newsletter so I could update the existing website's news and mass times section.  Once I finished the update I was off to a friend's on the Wirral to hang out at their place while his parents were away.  

As I have touched upon in a previous post, CSS is a very powerful tool when it comes to structuring pages.  It can also be very unpredictable.  You can assign a position for an element on a page, an element being something like a paragraph of text or an image, and it affects the rest of the elements that are already on the page.  A delicate balancing act as I'm sure you can work out.  I am new to this aspect of CSS and have rapidly become accustomed to all its pitfalls this weekend. 

I have managed to get everything on the home page in order and most things staying in the right place when you change the size of the window.  I should be able to push on more tomorrow (sadly missing St Mark's Quiz night but needs must) and hope to get the redesign fully online by wednesday.  

On an unrelated note, Sunday's Youth Mass went really well.  Jane did brilliantly with her projector work,  Mark with his keyboard prowess, Brother James on guitar, the 2 Sophies singing, Mike the usual rock behind the scenes and all the youth that took part in the eucharistic, offertory/collecting and reading ministries.  A special mention must also go to Father Grant for stepping into the fray whilst Father Vin was away.  It was the first mass I've been to said by him and hope to see more in the future.   

I helped out by writing the bidding prayers that I wish I had spent a bit more time doing as although the intention was right, the implementation was slightly misplaced.  Mark commented on them being inspired by Star Wars.  I think I need to add a bit more pacing to the next ones so I can have a chance to pause for breath when I am reading them out.  I am guilty as charged when it comes to long-winded sentences sometimes.  Simplifying my diction might help as well.

Tune in tomorrow for the next chapter of Webmaster's Blog.