I started noticing some strange layout loading problems on my sites.

Namely, these problems specifically involve my entire site loading approximately 25 to 50px vertically lower than it should.

The topbar main navigation should be hugging the top, right? And before I installed Google Analytics, it was. All the time. And then I installed Google Analytics and it wasn’t anymore – not consistently anyways.

So yeah.

After experimenting with some coding and doing some research, my conclusion is that because the Google Analytics is installed in the header of the page (meaning, it loads before any of my site contents do), its loading can sometimes interfere with the rendering of my website.

Sorry about that everyone!

Reloading the page always does the trick and resets the layout back to normal as the Analytics has already had a chance to load on the first load and therefore doesn’t and can’t interfere with the reload.

I will continue to investigate a way to solve this issue, but until then, I thought I would share a bit of news.

~ EMG

If anyone has visited my site in the last week, you might have noticed that it was sporadically offline or was giving error messages.

Sorry about that!

Due to situations beyond mine or my web host’s control, I am being switched to a new server (my old one was… well… too old?) and where I believe 99.9% of everything has switched over just fine, there might be a hiccup or three here and there as everything else gets sorted out and finalized.

I apologize for any difficulties or inconveniences anyone might experience between then and now and if any new developments should pop up, I’ll will let you know!

Hopefully everything will finish settling soon!

~ EMG

My RSS feed blocks (which happen to feed in content – update posts in particular – from each of my respective posting categories) are apparently all messed up.

In particular, my RSS feed block for my blog updates is messed up. Instead of showing three posts from my Blog Updates category, it’s showing the last three posts that I have posted, period.

The funny thing is, if you click on the RSS feed icon in the header, it links you to the right content, sooo…

What the hell gives, man?

That’s just all sorts of weird.

~ EMG

I rethought out some ideas on site structuring and I have decided to post all site updates on this portion of the Emotiomental Graffiti website rather than in the blog.

This will help maintain cohesiveness and continuity throughout the website(s) and the decision just makes more logical sense to me.

Originally, I had considered posting all of my site updates in the blog because this portion of the Emotiomental Graffiti website was more like a jump page/splash page for the rest of the website and that the site update posts would look out of place here.

However, after watching this portion of the website grow with content, I realized that my concerns were/are unfounded and after a bit of structural and content reorganization, I have moved my updates to the main site.

There might be a bit more minor reorganization going on for a while as I work out the exact filing/categorizing hierarchy that I am going to use, but for the most part, the restructuring is complete.

Cheers!

~ EMG

The main portion of the Emotiomental Graffiti website is just about ready to ‘officially’ go live!

When the site goes live, all of the main content will be posted and ready for viewing and the blog will be geared up and ready to go and ready to be posted on.

The portfolio and storefront will remain closed for the time being and will be opened in a future update.

Thanks for your interest,

~ EMG