Within Magan's Mind

A bunch of friends and I cozied up at one of their boyfriend’s house equipped with a large, flat-screen HD TV. Chewy sweets in hand, we sat wide-eyed in front of the telly, prepared for an HD experience we’ve never had before of our favorite shows, How I Met Your Mother (HIMYM) and Heroes. HIMYM came on first.

Hmm, that’s strange. Why does it look like they’re on a set? Then came Heroes. Very. Same. Thing. Our humble, TV-watching soiree was soon filled with how fake everything looked, how we could tell it was a set, and jokes about how we could see each pixel on an actor’s face. My favorite shows were ruined by HD! It simply was too crisp and too clear, so much so that nothing looked real anymore, and I could not enjoy the shows for their amazing plot lines or witty conversation without being distracted by the super high definition of the screen.

But, like the new Facebook, it will take some getting used to, since I will be forced to use HD permanently. With that being said, everything on television better up the ante on production quality so that people like me don’t feel like we’re at Universal Studios. On a side note, I actually like the new Facebook.

If you’ve been keeping up with my Web site, you may have seen it quite a mess for the last few days. I never seem to be satisfied with the way my site is designed, and I am still learning how to correctly code HTML. Sadly, I just found out that iframes suck for several reasons:

• I can’t seem to declare any document type without it jacking up the iframe placement, so for the time being, I don’t have a doctype set.
• When people go to a sub page directly, obviously, only the content is shown. My pretty, little layout with links does not get its chance to shine through.
• Using iframes as the main way to navigate the page gives me inaccurate results in Google Analytics, since the visitor remains on the parent page while actually surfing through other pages.
• Who wants to have to scroll a little box, anyway??

I will probably resort back to just using tables and having to apply the layout to each index. My only concern is the small animation my background produces with each refresh; this means that everytime you click to another page on my website, you’ll see the animation again. Does that get tiring (for me, it hasn’t lost its novelty yet)? Should I only allow the animation for the home page and give the other pages static backgrounds? I’d love to hear what you think or if you’ve any other suggestions. Since I don’t have a comments function, leave me a message on meebo!