Mystic Paint

I customized my site template, and managed to get the thing to validate.
Should it matter to me that it now validates? I dunno, I guess it doesn’t hurt. I’m more concerned with having the page display correctly in different browsers (still doesn’t yet), but validation is supposed to help with that, so good then I guess.

On the subject of content displaying correctly, it seems that my site host (Yahoo), uses the wrong HTML header when hosting SVG files. This really throws a wrench into my design plans, and irritates me to no end. After a couple of weeks of volleying emails back and forth between their tech support and even calling them on the phone, they pretty much declared themselves helpless and said they couldn’t fix it. Supposedly if I want it to work, it has to be done via a “feature request”, whatever the heck that is. The fact is, the server attempts to support the file format, but uses pre-y2k settings, so fails to actually support SVG. It failed for the last seven years, and will probably continue to fail for the foreseeable future.

Yet another note, the subject of what kind of content this site will contain has once again crossed my mind. Although I thought I had resolved the question, I find myself contemplating some kind of animation instead of the comics strip I had initially considered. Why the change? I’m just thinking that there are more than enough web-comics out there, and the amount of control I could have over video in regards to timing and movement makes it so preferable to motionless comics. The downside is that it presents a lot more work, and as only one person, the question of voices and music becomes more complicated. Also, I have yet to see a nice way of importing pleasant SVG drawings into the crude SWF format, and certainly not with the software I can currently afford.