Shiromi’s Diary

Today is Pitou's birthday (almost) : she was born the 1st of April 2000 so she's today 7 months old. She indeed got a little bigger but apart from that she hasn't changed at all! She's still running everywhere, always ready to jump (higher and higher!) but she is also capable of showing a lot of affection when she comes to sleep on your lap

I managed to take some no flash pictures and I had to keep her still and make her look at something else than the camera, which is pretty tough when you know how excited she usually is! I was actually playing with a piece of paper or moving my fingers to keep her attention but she was always jumping before I could take the picture !

Anyway, see the new Pitou pictures !

I added some pictures I couldn't add before because they had been taken by a regular camera and the film was still not printed (or the pictures were still not scanned ...). However, I didn't want to miss them because they show some of my best friends: Rudy, Joachim and his lovely family. See them in the Friends section.

I've added a picture of Pitou (yet another one !), where she has a funny position with her rear legs :).

As suggested by Fred, I'm now updating my diary every time I update my homepage so that everybody is aware of the changes and doesn't have to browse the whole site to see the changes ... I also added a "last modified" label on the welcome page.

I went to Nikko for 2 days, which is famous for its temples, its waterfalls and the color of its trees turning into yellow, orange and deep red in Autumn.
Unfortunately, the weather was against us and it was too foggy to see the biggest waterfall and too dark to take good pictures of the temples. Too bad: one of them was opened to the public for the first time in 350 years !
We'll have to go back soon !

I'm learning more and more from the GoLive tutorials available on the web and though the changes are still not really visible, this homepage keeps evolving ! For example, I used some rollovers for the menu on the left side to make the links look active, I gathered all the java script into a single file, some pictures are preloaded, so they can be available right away.

I also tried to add some DHTML, but some some reasons, it didn't work when I uploaded the page while it was showing fine on my hard disk. I'll look into it later !

So far, I was filling my homepage of pictures taken with my digital camera but the site in itself wasn't really changing. Moreover, when I was looking at Fred's homepage, I was a little ashamed of mine, designed with FrontPage from an existing template !

Well, I recently got Adobe GoLive and my life's changed (sounds like a commercial but it's true!) : you can do some really nice things and at least, you see what you do and you have a perfect control on the design of your homepage. FrontPage was really too strict and you can't really do all the things you would like to do. GoLive really makes you feel like working on your homepage !

Thanks to Fred and the study of some homepage (especially the one of cyberguard, which I use to make my own), I finally understood how to use tables to make a page look nice (with the shadow of the borders and all).

Yves also gave me the rights to execute some cgi-bin on his server and for my first cgi-bin, I thought I really needed a guestbook so that my friends (or anybody) can drop a message. Well, so far, I didn't get as many messages as I expected, but well ...