I think I’ve got the page loading issue fixed.  It wasn’t one of those “aha” fixes where one single change was obviously it.  As far as I can tell it was related to not specifying height and width parameters for the pogo stick images (bad, I know..) and the code that MeanDeans email obfuscator generated.  Very strange!  Please do leave a comment if you notice pages not loading correctly again.

FYI - I’m still tweaking this new layout.  I know some pages aren’t fully loading, especially in IE6.  I’m off to a meeting this afternoon, but plan to start with a fresh CSS file.  Bear with me!

Not sure what “persuasion architecture” means, but geek speak aside, a stroll through any local mall is a good way to confirm any doubts around the general public’s abilities with color.  Not to say that I’m much better - I seem to end up looking at any given pair of socks in three different light sources before deciding if they are blue or black.

Just a summary of existing research, but some good points nonetheless.

If you’re a regular visitor of Boyink.com (all 2 of you), you’ll notice some subtle and some not so subtle changes in place.  In the talk of car guys, I’ve done an “engine swap” on Boyink.com.  Previously the business side of the site (the blog that you’re reading) was driven by Radio Userland.  It now runs on pMachine.  So what’s that mean for you?

- The biggest visual change is bringing the Jeep related pages into the same look and feel as the rest of the site.  While it’s a bit strange to have my hobby related pages under the business masthead, getting all the content I manage on a regular basis into one design and one tool was important.

- Commenting and permalinks are now available.

- You can change the Font size of the body text using your browser controls.

- The pogo stick gag I dreamed up about a year ago is finally live.  To see it keep refreshing this page and watch the picture in the right column.  Goofy, I know.  Doesn’t take much to amuse me...

Under the covers, the change means:

- No more tables.  While I’ve been on the pro-tables side of the CSS vs. tables for positioning argument in the past, it made sense to use CSS for positioning with the pages that make up Boyink.com.

- No more having to deal with the Radio memory leak.  I couldn’t keep it running for more than 1/2 hour before it ate up all available memory. 

- Boyink.com is now a database driven site.  While Radio was just a fancy way to continue to crank out static pages, pMachine is a database driven tool.  Now I can work with content programmatically - magic words for a geek.  I’ll also be able to add other sections more easily - like the Portfolio I’ve been wanting to put out there for awhile.

The only downside is that I found no easy way to import all the old posts that Radio generated, so a year’s worth of content is out the window.  That’s OK - most of it wasn’t that good anyway.

So I’m off to clean house on my web server…