Website redesign on Ants of the Southwest
Hi Guys -I'm in the process of doing a redesign of my Ants website, switching to dynamically generated pages using a php/mysql backend. Manually generating the webpages was driving me crazy!The site...
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Looks nice so far, but I found a problem."Unless otherwise noted, all images copyrighted by Dale Ward. Contact me at ants@tightloop.com for questions regarding use of these images." text overlaps the...
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tetramorium: I got to look at your site more. Wow, lots of photographs. Either I forgot them or they're actually new, but a lot of them seem to be new to me. It looks like Myrmecos1 and others have a...
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Thanks Antdude. Yes, there are a ton of new photos. Manually updating the html files was getting to be truly onerous, so I have been putting it off for many months. Hence the backlog of photos.Thanks...
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tetramorium: Also, add a "What's New" page so we know what you added. "Is this stuff any good for ants?" "No, it kills them." --unknown /\___/\ / /\ /\ \ Ant (aka AntDude), Your Host & Fearless...
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Howdy, Tetramorium. The new design is great and the pictures excellent! I even wrote in to lamarabunta.org (the Spanish-language ant forum) recommending your site as a good place to see pictures of...
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Thanks! You are (of course) right about the Pheidole - I have it mislabelled. One of the downsides to a more automated system. I found an Ephebomyrmex (!)worker that is also mislabelled but haven't...
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Good to see you back on board. The sites looks really nice so far. However I do have one nit to pic. Maybe it's just these old eyes but for some reason I have a real problem with the white background,...
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Ah, thanks. I sort of wondered if that would be a problem.Having no real aesthetic sense of my own, I scabbed the basic layout from The Layout Reservoir. I'll look at toning down the white...
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Dont feel bad. I played around with the same BG for army ants and scrapped it real quick. T if you should happen to run across and screw bean mesquite , I need some seeds. "The most exciting phrase to...
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Hey Tetramorium, looks very good. BTW, I'll be starting a postdoc at ASU in a few weeks - we should go anting sometime.
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Outstanding! With whom is your postdoc? You are going to have a blast...I'd love to go anting sometime, but my wife and I moved from Tucson up to SW Colorado a couple of months ago, so it'll be a...
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ahh. For some reason I thought you were in Phoenix. Well, next time you're in the area...I'll be working with Rob Page and Bert Hoelldobler - should be fun.
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Hey "T" Hope the move went well, what prompted it?? Finally have some new anting wheels and you go and move, figures. Ant collecting will certainly be different there. Looking forward to some of those...
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We were in Phoenix, then moved to Tucson...and now to the 'far north' My wife and I purchased a veterinary practice in Cortez, Colorado. Yes, anting is very different here. I'm pulling my hair out...
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I had no idea you were moving, but you picked a great place. Plus...You'll have all winter to update your website. Let me know if you need a hand on those Formica IDs, and I might even be crazy enough...
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Very nice dude! Though i can't understand why you would choose PHP over Java
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Winter...gak! Talk about culture shock. I will post some of my 'problem' Formicines in the next week or so after messing w cropping/resizing stuff. Re: PHP vs. Java - My web host had php and mysql...
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