SITE UPDATE-29.5 + 29.5.16

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V.29.5 + 29.5.16- OK! It's the end of the year! And that means it's time add the 2016 stuff! So, that's what this update is. I set things up to post and update right at the year change. So, 29.5 is the set up, 29.5.16 is checking if it all worked and updated properly! I also refined a few things I added in V.29. Ok, got it? Here's what I did:

• 2016!
• It's everywhere! Across all the sites and menus I added 2016 lists. They don't have anything yet though. But the way I have them set up lets them just update by themselves. The only thing I have to add each month is the new Monthly Update. Speaking of menus....
• Updates to the Menus...
• I took my idea in V.26 and applied it to other menus. My updates are sorted by years. The idea was that since the year lists in the menus are getting so long, I would switch the order of them. They used to be 2010-2015. That means if you wanted recent updates, you have to navigate down the whole list. So, I changed it to be 2015-2010. Backwards. So the most recent is on the top. I only did it to the Monthly Updates and the Update Blog lists in the Main Site Menu. Well, now I expanded it to the Site Updates in the Main Menu. Also, I did it to the separate menus on those sites. Just to make things easier.
• I had to change the Site Updates menu a little bit. The list of years were too long. So, I had to split them up by making a MORE section.
• I also added all the 2015 Monthly Updates to the Main Menu. They got behind...
• Also, my updates for my Update Blog got behind. So, I removed the unused months in 2015 from all the menus.
• Video Pages Update...
• While adding the 2016 section in my videos, I remembered something. I'm still adding videos to The Father's page! I am! I'm still uploading to the channel. I have this idea in mind. So, I updated his page and added a WHOLE PAGE just for my Boots and the videos I made about her. Go check his page out!
• Lastly, the little things...
• In the POTW Hover Panel that's in the side bar of the Main Site, I always had a link to a BTS video. Even if there wasn't one. So, using the CSS property "visibility", I made it so it hides when there isn't a video. And when I need it, I just change it from "hidden" to "visible"!
• I added a "BETA VERSION" section in the bottom bar on the Main Site below the new "CURRENT VERSION" section. It lets you know that I started working on a new update and things might start freaking out. Like if I break the menu. But I'm quick at restoring things back to normal.
• The Dynamic Drive banner said "The Top Bar and other codes were provided by:" Well, in the last update I rebuilt the Top Bar from scratch. So, it doesn't use any code from them. I made it. It actually used the Bottom Bar's code. So, I changed it to reflect each site. Like the Menu on the Update Blog, I said it was provided by them. Stuff like that.

And that's pretty much it! I didn't add anything new, but that usually happens in X.5 updates. Refine the things you have before adding new messes. This year was a rough one. Things will get better! I don't know when or what will happen. Something will! See you next year!

SITE UPDATE-29

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V.29- So...This update was supposed to be small. Just adding the Christmas stuff and getting ready for the new year. But, I added a few new things. It's not a long list of stuff, but it's big stuff. Enough to skip V.28.5. HERE'S WHAT I DID:

• CHRISTMAS!
• It's that time of the year! We got our tree up a few nights ago. So, it's time to put the lights on the sites. And they look nice too. I thought all the bars on the Main Site would cut things off, but it's all good. I like it.
• I also moved the Snow Button on the Main Site. It's in the top bar like everywhere else. I also made it smaller. Instead of saying "Turn the Snow ON/OFF" it just says "Snow ON/OFF".
• I also cut out the Christmas Music player. I didn't know where to put the button for it. I already have a lot of buttons everywhere. I'll think of something for next year.
• NEW HOVER WARNING!
• Through out time, these Hover Warning of been through a lot. The Warning is the red text that floats at the top of the Main Site. I have rebuilt them many....many times. And this is no exception! They are better than ever! Rebuilt from the ground up using CSS instead of JS. CSS loads faster and is easy on computers. Now all the issues with it are gone! I had a problem with the 100% width thing. If it was setting to 100% it would block everything in the Top Bar. Now, I can make it whatever size and have no issue. It's just more stable and better! And you can't even tell!
• However, there's a catch. I re-did the Hover Menu a while back. Well....it didn't work anymore. Oh well. I restored the old, VERY FIRST version and it works fine!
• Also, there was this BIG empty space at the bottom of the Main Site. I don't think I have a picture of it. It was big! Just a space of nothing but black. Like something was hidden there. It was weird. I tried to figure out where it came from and gave up. It was a mystery....until now. After I updated the Warning....POOF! Gone. :-)
• UPDATE TO THE MENUS!
• I have this menu system on the Free Rider, Update Blog, and the Site Update....Sites. It used the Hover Warning code to float! There was a problem though. The menu had to be set to 100% in order to work. And like I said, 100% in the old Warning code means the Top Bar is blocked. So, I had to make the menu float below the Top Bar. Well, now with this update tot he Warnings, I don't have to! It took a little tinkering, but it works! I was able to move the menu back up, so it's all flush with the Top Bar and not sticking out below it. I LOVE IT! I like using codes I already have for new things!
• NEW TOP BAR!
• But you can't tell...CAN YOU! I was studying CSS! That's what this update is about. I update a few things into a more CSS based form. THUS! The Top Bar comes in. The Top Bar was made from the Bottom Bar. So, it had all that extra code that it didn't use. Well, while studying CSS, I figured out the FIXED property. "position: fixed!important;" And I also learn how to make a box. Using the fixed thing, I could but a box anywhere on the screen and have it float there....So.....why not make a white, transparent box with the height of 28px and a width of 100% float at the top of the screen! THUS! The Top Bar has been rebuilt with a super simple code. And I can put whatever I want up there and have it work! It's AMAZING! I love making things better!
• NEW HOVER IMAGE PANELS!
• One last total rebuild. I go through JS code sites that give you free codes to take and use. That's where the menu came from. Well, there are also CSS code sites. I look through those to find something that looks like what I already have, but made out of CSS. Which is better. That where I found the new Hover Warning and...the new Image Panels...Built from CSS. They where I bit tricky to get right. There didn't like to work. But, I have all the bugs worked out. I could do more with them now!
• Now, the little things...
• I removed the News Buttons. They were above the Scrolling Important News and the Scrolling Newsy News. The controlled how fast the marquees moved. However, in recent web browser updates, they didn't work anymore. So, I just removed them. I liked them... Farewell....
• In recent tests of the Main Site, I was seeing what slows the site down from loading. Looking at the performance grade, I saw that I had a bad score in redirects. That means the site tries to load something from the wrong URL and it's redirected to the right one. That cost a few moments in load time. So, I went and fixed the bad spots. Mostly it was redirecting from HTTP to HTTPS. So, I just had to put an S in the links. Not a bad fix.
• And lastly, some New Years Prep. I'm just getting things organized and ready to update. It takes a whole month to add all the 2016 stuff!

This was a fun update! I'm actually starting to make things! The Top Bar is mine! It's not made off of another code! I made that! I'm learning more and more. Enough to expand things. Add more to it. Customize it. Like using the Hover Warning code to make the floating menus. Using things I already have for something new! I'm just happy right now. I like making things. Anyways, I'll see you and the end of the month for V.29.5. And then a week later will be V.29.5.16! V.29.5 is added the 2016 stuff, and V.29.5.16 is seeing if it all worked and making fixes. SEE YOU THEN!

SITE UPDATE-28

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V.28- Hi, this update is a good one. I updated a bunch of things from the last update. It's time to get caught back up. Here's what I did:

• SNOW!!
• As I do every November, I add a snow effect to the sites! Click the SNOW BUTTON to let it snow! Things are different though. It's just where the button is placed. Usually I have it floating at the bottom left of the screen. But, I made the Top Bar for a reason. To clean up the floating stuff and make it all look nice and clean. So, that's where I put the snow button on all the Blogger Sites. Except for the Main Site. If I put it in the Top Bar, the Hover Warning would be in the way. So, I put it in the Bottom Bar next to the Side Bar button. It still looks nice and clean!
• The Back Up Site?
• A while back when my sites relied on external codes, I made this site. When the host site of the codes when down, my sites would go down. When that happened, the back up site would go live and as a replacement until things are fixed. It got annoying. So, in the V.20 update, I made all the sites work on their own. That means I took the external .JS and .CSS codes and put them directly on the site. That's good and bad. Good is that they don't rely on anything anymore...except Blogger. Bad is that I can hurt loading times. At least, that's what I read. And the Main Site was already a beast to load. Even though, I think that having codes off site means that it'll have to fetch that code when it loads. That means it'll have to wait for that server to kick on, access it, find the file, grab it, bring it back, and then load it. Instead of just....loading it. And that's true. When I run my tests, my site scores good. Better than before. But not as good as it was. But during those tests, the only bad thing it says is that I need to combine external scripts. I still have them. The comment sections, the Youtube players, and other things. There still is external things, just more reliable things. I tried combining my codes in V.16, I got mostly everything into one .JS cods. So, I was on the right track. I guess....I don't know. I need to update the help page with my new results.
• Oh....Right, that's what this part is about! The Help Pages. Since I did all that and maybe my sites work on their own, I didn't need the Back Up site. So, to put it to good use, The Help Links in the Hover Warning/Hover Menu now go to the Back Up site. The actual link where the Hover Menu is goes the Help Page that I made on Webs. It's an external HTML document. And then in the Menu, under MY STUFF->INFORMATION, those links will bring you to the Help Pages that or on the Main Site. I might do a little more adjusting to balance things out in the next update.
• The Image Slider....
• On my blog, I do this thing were I compare the Before and After changes of the pictures I make. In V.25, I made a new way to compare the pictures. The pictures load in a box and there is a slider in the middle. On the left side of the slider is the before and on the right is the after. You can slide the slider around and compare at either half and half, or 1/4-3/4, or anywhere! It's hard to explain, so go over and check it out.
• Anyways, it's been a bit buggy ever since I put it in. I would have to embed it into the page in HTML mode before publishing. I couldn't go into Compose mode or it'll break. And other little issues. Well, I looked at way it was breaking and decided to try something. The WHOLE CODE was in the page itself, so I just moved the JS and CSS codes out of the page and put them into a section on the bottom of the site. Where I have all the other codes. I left the load code on the page. The load code is basically an HTML code that sends a signal to the JS to load the element. That's a rough way to put it. ANYWAYS!! I put the codes down there and it solved the issues! I don't know why I didn't think of that in the first place!
• Animations...
• Like I mentioned at the end of the last update, I just started experimenting with fade and glow effect and didn't get the effect everywhere. Some sites with the new Top Bar didn't have the new effects. And the Back to Top arrow didn't fade in and out when you hovered over it. Well, everything is perfected now. EXCEPT...the BTT Arrow. It wouldn't work. It kind-of already uses the effect. But not for onhover stuff. Oh well.

• The Little things...
• In the Menu, under MY STUFF->MY PROFILES, I took out the Flickr and Google+ widgets. The Google+ one would appear and then disappear when the page loaded. It was annoying so I took it out! And they Flickr ones wasn't working right.
• The Blogger Navbar has been removed for all Blogger Sites. It was being blocked by the top bar, so I just took it out as well!
• The 2015 links in the Site Update's menu were not the right ones. I don't know when that happened. Hopefully it hasn't been like that since I made the menu. HOW COULD I MISS THAT!
• There's new silly placeholder text in the Contact Forms. But only on the Main Site and the Blog. I haven't gotten around to added them everywhere else. I'll do that in the next update!
• There is a Dynamic Drive banner at the bottom of all the Blogger sites! I only had one on the Main Site. But since I use their codes on all the sites, I put it everywhere! I also took it out of the Bottom Bar on the Main Site. So, you can see it all the time! Just so you know, Dynamic Drive is a code site. You can go there and get FREE CODES of random things. That's where I got the Menu and the Bottom Bar. Plus many other little codes.
• I renamed some of the Help Links in the Hover Menu.
• On the Main Site, I changed the NEW FREE RIDER TRACK picture in the Side Bar's Scrolling News. I updated all the pictures a while back, but didn't change it in there.
• And lastly...CLEANING!! That would be fixing errors in codes or parts that repeat. Or parts that aren't even being used! Just trimming things up to make it load faster!
• And now....something new....FAILS!!!
• There are somethings on the sites that I try to fix or add onto...but I fail. 
• In the Top Bar on the Main site, when you hover over the Share + button, it brings up a little menu with other share options. However...that only works on the Main Site! I checked the codes and everything is the same!! So, why it's working there and no where else....I don't know.
• There's a glitch where the Bottom Bar doesn't load. It happened for a little bit but then stopped. I don't know if it's fixed or not. I didn't do anything!
• I tried updating the custom scroll bars. On the sites, if you look to the right at the page scroll bar, mine are custom. I tried changing there color because the UP button is different from the DOWN button. BUT IT WOULDN'T WORK! Oh well....it's not that bad.
• And lastly, I tried to make the Top Bars different on each site. But, it just looked weird. I like it's plain white self.

OK! Not that bad of an update. I talked a lot though. I made my notes better too. I keep track of everything I do in a list. And I didn't forget anything this time. I wrote everything down. I'm getting things back on track. I have hard a rough four months...maybe even longer. See you in December. On time too! CHRISTMAS!