Don't you just love problems and challenges? They test us and stretch us and force us to explore uncharted realms in our journey to and through knowledge and learning.
© GT Bulmer
Web Biz Opportunities - StarrBizz.comI don't like problems. Yes, I agree. Problems can be a good thing. They challenge us to stretch our thinking and our abilities and if we have the fortitude to persevere, we come out the other side stronger and wiser.
But I still don't like problems!
lolYesterday, I made a number of changes to the
StarrBizz.com homepage including posting a new
feature article and a few new
Web Bizz Blog highlights. I didn't finish everything until late in the evening, so I was in a hurry to upload my revised Index file to my server and post the changes to the Internet.
I always check new pages in a web browser after I upload them, and I did that with the StarrBizz homepage. I noticed a wee problem when the page loaded, but being late in the evening, I passed it off as being a minor browser glitch and expected that it would correct itself.
... However, first thing this morning, upon opening the StarrBizz homepage in my browser, I was alarmed to discover that the glitch was still there! If any of my visitors experienced this problem through that 12 hour period, please accept my apology.
The problem had to do with the pop-over or drop-down box that appears when you open the StarrBizz.com page. This box promotes the
bonuses you get when you sign up for my
web biz newsletter. When it's working properly, the box includes a "Close" link right at the top allowing visitors to get rid of it quickly and easily.
This morning, I discovered that the "Close" link was missing from the box! That meant visitors could not close the box ... and if you are like me, you aren't real happy about those pop-overs and drop-downs to begin with. A box that won't close does nothing positive for the reputation of a website, I know.
Looking around the web page, I noticed that the "Close" link was actually misplaced: it was up in the top, left corner of the web page in a spot visitors may not think to look.
Not being a techie or a master at HTML, I wondered what to do?
What I did was open the Index file for that page into an HTML editor so I could examine the code for anomalies. Not recognizing any, I then opened a previously saved older version of the Index file and compared the code for the drop-down box in the two files.
Ah ha! What I discovered was that the code in the offending file had somehow been rearranged. A couple lines of code were in a different spot.
So, I changed the code to match that of the older file and tested the page.
Eureka! It worked. I quickly uploaded the corrected file to my server and republished to the Net and all was well once again. Thank goodness.
However, once question still remained: how did that lit bit of code get moved around?
I think I know what happened: bad mouse.
Bad, bad mouse.I've been having trouble with my computer mouse lately. It's getting old and it seems like it sometimes double-clicks when it should only be a single-click. That causes problems when I'm copying and pasting ... which I do a lot when I'm working on text and HTML in web pages. I must have inadvertently highlighted and moved that
drop-down box code without realizing it.
It's either that ... or
gremlins.
Either way, at least I got my pop-over problem solved. Guess I'd better start shopping for a new mouse.
Sincerely, GT Bulmer
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