I'll be doing a major overhaul of how the site functions and is used. I'll be changing the usability drastically to make it easier to use and much more logical. Sami helped me a lot in the design concepts I did for this new revision. We'll see how it goes once I get it all working the way I want.

• Navigation update
• Focused Content page
• User Control Page/Panel
• Administraion Functions
• Feature editing

so I haven't touched CSS or any web stuff for a long time now. I got some thumbnails that just link to regular image files. I'm using CSS to control things like the text color and all that stuff.

I can't figure out a way to change the background color of the new window that the image opens up into. Basically, I just want to make the background color of ALL pages the same color, even new pages that open up from the thumbnails Is there any way to do this in CSS? I'm not creating a web-page for each thumbnail link, it's just a .jpg file that opens, but the background always defaults to white, I'd like to change that color.

LND Is Updated.
I'm still updating modules. Everything will be back soon as I can get it. If you find things that are missing or bugged let me know. The current list I have is:

Shoutbox - bugged
Events Calendar - missing
User points Page - missing
User Profile - bugged
RSS feeds - missing
Rich text - missing (was sort of bugged anyhow, hope you all like the extendable text boxes!)
Private messaging - missing
Memberlist - missing / profiles semi working
recent posts - bugged
search box - bugged

I will be transfering LND to the final release of the backbone software. It's been on the server running in the background and been quite an interesting experience switching as many of our modules over to the new system as I can. Some of them are mine some of them others built. It'll be an interesting experience switching the database over as well. There's a bunch of new naming conventions and restructuring but shouldn't be a problem. We currently have almost 1000 database entries and I'm hoping to not lose anything. I will have backups of course, so no worries. I'd also like to keep this version up running as a legacy incase you guys don't like the new stuff. I'll have it run off the same database so that it will automatically update the data.

I have been shooting alot of landscape and sunset photos lately, and several folks at work mentioned that I should look into submitting them to stock photo websites.   Anyone here ever done that?  Anyone know what stock photo site would provide the best exposure for landscapes?

Thanks!

If you havn't heard yet, I got a new job. I start at American Express as an Instructional Design II employee. Not exactly sure what I will be doing but the pay is good and it sounds really laid back. As much as I can infer from the questions they asked and and what I needed in my resume, I'll be working with Adobe Suite, Macromedia and lots of XML. So, who knows. I'm very excited, and pending a drug test, I start the 15th of this month! Yeah, me! Ok, there's my little time in the spot light. Seacrest.. I mean Rob Out.

Yahoo, I have noticed with there news articles stretches the truth in their headlines. For instance this headline "Bolivia Leader Orders Army to Gas Fields" so what do I think? They are gassing fields? Well not exactly, it seems that that the army is being sent to take control of gas fields. No one is being gassed....and this isnt the first time I have seen Yahoo (or whatever news agency supplies Yahoo's news) do this... Watch you will see it
Bolivia Leader Orders Army to Gas Fields

This is an amazing use of flash. You can create your own account, and in your account you can im people using any im service, Check your email, play games, and much more from one flash movie. (It also resembles Mac OSX interface) And the best part is it is all free!

So go check it out : http://www1.goowy.com/ 

Google fires double barrell at Microsoft IE7 search

By Stan Beer  -  Tuesday, 02 May 2006

Google has fired off a double barrelled antitrust-like complaint to both the US Justice Deoartment and the European Commission (EC) over Microsoft making MSN Search the default search engine in the new version of its dominant Internet Explorer browser, IE7. Internet Explorer currently has 85% market share, a share that is slowly being eroded by Mozilla Firefox and, to a lesser extent Opera from Opera Software.

I am offering gmail accounts with latenightdesigners.com endings. If you want one post in here or drop me a message.

 It's a latenightdesigners.com email address... using the google api.. come on you all know you want one!

How to sign up:

• Send me your first and last name
• the nameyouwant@latenightdesigners.com
• and yes, I might just hand out the odd ball ones, but please only 1 or 2 per person. (we only get 50 users, lol)

Good times and I think I'll do lnds.org emails if I can also if our url is too long. Took me like a month to get approval for latenightdesigners.com though.