Welcome to Kgray's Slice of Life

Okay, so the site's basics are now set up. The navbar has issues, but it works. The pictures section of the site is almost identical to how it was before, so there are no surprises there. If anyone sees the problems and wants to help, feel free to email me at demotivatorsmotivateme@gmail.com. I'll give you credit for your help somewhere on the site once I fix everything.

Here's how the new site is going to be set up:

• Home: The homepage is going to show . . . something . . . I haven't decided yet. If I can't think of anything, I will probably just make either the news page or the HAPPY FUN TIMES! page the homepage. According to the bounce rate, the old homepage setup wasn't effective. Not that I didn't expect that. After all, lots of the comments would only be understood by other people in Stern, and the text took up more space than the pictures.

  Now that I think about it, this might end up being my permanent homepage. It tells visitors about my site, and even tells them how to contact me. It's not like people come to my site via my homepage anyway. I'm guessing 99% of my visitors (other than the people I refer to the site) come from Google images (or potentially the new Bing) anyway, so the homepage is pretty useless.

• News: The news page will show any recent changes to the page. Depending on my mood and how things work out (see the problem in Pictures), I might also include the most recent pictures added to the site. If I do this, I will probably add a dropdown menu to news that would include all of my major additions to the site, in increments of 20 pictures.

  I may also use this page to show other kinds of news, like real life events or whatever I feel like saying is newsworthy. THIS JUST IN! I just checked my email! ZOMG!

• About Me: I'll save you the trouble now: No, I'm not as cool as that smiley. I'M WORKING ON IT THOUGH!

  Here I'm going to talk about myself (naturally I'm amazing). I'll upload my resume and say a few things about myself that I can't fit on my resume (did I mention I'm amazing?). I may also talk about any projects I'm working on (this website, maybe?).

• HAPPY FUN TIMES!: This is the major change from the previous site. Here's where I put lots and lots of random stuff. I have included some things in a rough format now, and will try to spruce things up down the line. If I feel so inclined, I'll also include a blog. More likely, I'll just end up ranting about random stuff, including whatever games I recently played, or anime I watched (although some may consider that a blog). Expect some random funny stuff in this section, as well as some stuff that may have you coming back regularly to check for updates.
• Pictures: This is the meat of my site. I will upload more pictures over time, but for now, the pictures that are on my site are the same ones that were on my site before. The more recent additions will be added toward the top of each page. Whenever I add pictures, I will mention where they were added in news, so it should be easy to keep current with my pictures.
• There is a slight (ehh...) problem that I have encountered with my new layout. Since the text is to the right of the pictures, and some of the pictures are pretty big, this layout doesn't work with lower resolutions. This would be easy to fix with php, but since NYU's server doesn't support php, and I don't want to have to pay for this site, it would be a fair amount of work to make it work with lower resolutions. Eventually, I will set it up (with java) so that if your screen resolution is below a certain level, the page will display with the text below the picture, instead of to the right of it. This would take more time than it takes to add a picture to the site and get everything else working, since I have to rewrite the code from a table to paragraphs (well I don't have to, but I like clean code), and I have to add special characters to get it to work with java. For now, just get a better monitor if you have to scroll to the right to see what I say :P

  There are lots of "easy" and effective ways to fix this, like completely changing my site's layout, but since I finished learning HTML and CSS a few days ago, I'd say this is good for now. I'll try to improve the site (perhaps adding more interactivity) before school starts, but I won't make any promises (the English version of Final Fantasy Dissidia is coming out in a few days ^_^).