After a couple of days spent tinkering, breaking, unbreaking and tinkering some more, I can happily display the new journal-entry layout I’ve devised. What’s so great about it, you ask? The most important breakthrough is something you can’t even see: no longer is the layout of journal entries done by table code. The only table left is the calendar.

This is simply one more step along the path to a fully CSS-driven layout scheme. The page should also render just a little bit faster in most browsers. Not to mention that I just plain like the way this looks better than what I had before.

Pardon me while I bask in the dubious glory of my own accomplishments. Thank you.

Thanks once again to the creator of Monaural Jerk for showing me how to reverse-sort the journal entries. Now the newest additions will always be at the top of the page so you don’t have to scroll down to see if there’s anything new on a given day. Hooray!

I’ve also learned how to make the “synopsis” data appear. This means that all entries with synopses (which would be all of them, mind you) back to the beginning of the database will be shown with little parenthetical comments.

My next goal is to completely redesign how individual journal entries are displayed. Wish me luck. Send me cocoa.