We are today moving to our new apartment. After working on the new apartment for a month now we a finally on the way. As we will not have any internet connection for a while it will probably be quite slow here on the website. Well, off I go.
May, 2005
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May 05
New digital home
After running the this site on my home web server I have now moved to a professional host. When you see this message you are reading it from the Surftown servers. Hopefully everything will work fine after the DNS has changed. I made the decision after talking to my ISP, when we make our “real life” move we will loose our broadband connection for up to 2 weeks. I did not want my site to be down for such a long time. The good thing is that the server will now feel much more faster. Just looking at the how fast the page renders I have cut the time with 66%.
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May 05
Order of content
I’ve been thinking about the order of the different parts of a layout. I made some illustrations to make this a bit easier to grasp. The illustration shows a quite normal layout used on most websites today.
* Top area, branding area and global navigation
* Local navigation, menu
* Main content
* Relative content and commercial banners
* Footer
This disposition must be one of the most common layout on the web today.
Now to the question, or the problem that I have. Which order should the code (div) come? I know that main content and related content should come first. But what about the rest. Does it matter, is there any pros and cons? Here are some orders.
All thoughts and comments are welcome.
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May 05
Which one is correct?
I had a discussion with some friends about having an background image in a link. I thought it would be an easy thing to do. Seems like it is not. The thing is that I am not sure which browser displays it correctly.
Here is two screenshoots, first IE then FF.
The corresponding HTML example can be found here.
Which one is correct, or is both correct or wrong?
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May 05
Musical baton
Robert passed the baton to me. Normally I do not read these things and do not pass them on, but what the heck.
## Total Volume
Around 50 GB large archive of different kind of flavours. Mostly hip hop and electronic music.
## Last CD (or digital music) Bought
Human after all, Daft Punk
## Song Playing Right Now
Mostly shuffle on my iPod when I work. Now I listen a lot to the Daft Punk album.
## Five Songs I Listen to A Lot, Or That Mean A Lot to Me
As I listen to mostly shuffle, I have no really big favourites, but I´ll try to write a few down.
* Spam, Beasty Boys
* Hip-hip, Dead Prez
* Pass this on, The Knife
* Triumph, Wu-Tang Clan
* Angel of the morning, Bettye Swann
## Five People to Whom I’m Passing the Baton
Here comes the baton, forgive me all.
* Anders Åhlund
* Sara Wiklander
* Mattias Ahlström
* Fredrik Nordin
* Niklas Sandberg
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May 05
Human after all
This weekend I bought my first legal music over the net. I tried the Apple/iTunes music store out and bought myself a nice electronic album, Human after all with Daft Punk.
The registration was a peace of cake and the one click feature almost maked me shiver, it was almost too easy to buy an album. After clicking the buy button, I got an alert asking if I was sure. I clicked yes and the download began. I had a few problems with the download, not really sure what the problem was. Maybe the Apple servers had a lot of visitors this weekend as the store opened last week here in Sweden. I just used the resume feature to get all the songs downloaded.
The price is now 90 SEK (13 dollars) which is not too bad, of course it would be nice with even a lower price but it is a good start.
I will probably buy more albums this way 
Keep on rocking.