SITE UPDATE-30

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V.30- OK! IT'S THE BIG 3-0! This update isn't...HUGE... but it is a good New Year's refresh! Here's what I did!!:

• REDESIGNS!
• If you look at the bottom of the sites, you'll see all my sites icons down there. However, the icons don't match the sites. So, I was thinking.... Mostly of the sites are gray or white, and they have been like that forever! I wanted something new! That led me to update all the icons first. Some looked the same and I wanted each to look different. Not only that, but I wanted them to reflect each site. I made the Main Site's icon more rainbow colored because I use a lot of different colors on it. The Test Site and Back site were unchanged. I didn't do anything to the design of the sites or the icons. Almost the same thing with the Old Site. I did update it's icon, but not the site. And my Blog's icon stayed the same, but I updated it's design.
• By design, I mean the site colors. The blog started all this change. It has always been blue. A nice blue. But the same for a while. I wanted something new. I was like... "Let's toss in some red." Because that's what was in the icon. I did! And liked it! That led me to update all the icons and change all the sites.
• Now we are left with three sites. The Update Blog, The Site Updates, and The Free Rider Tracks. Those had the BIGGEST changes. Once I got the icons done. I was like "I need to make the sites match....." and got to work. It took three days! Which isn't that long. The sites have the same background with different colors to match their icon. When I added red to the blog, I put a red gradient on the background. So, it fades from red to blue. I took that background and put it on all the sites that had a refresh. Which was just those three. All I did was shift the colors to match that site! It was complicated, but in the end.... I LOVE IT! Then I had to change the link colors, the body background, the menu colors, scroll bar colors and much more. It's beautiful! I love how they look now! Go look at each one and see what I mean!
• No more Old Menu...
• Now, I forgot to mention on site during all that change. The Old Menu...site. A whole site dedicated to my old menu. I wouldn't have my new menu without it. However, I have been wanting to get rid of it for a while. It's just a waste of space. I have been trying to get the old menu to work on the Old Site. But it wouldn't embed properly. Well, I got to the point of....I DON'T CARE! So, I stuffed the old menu on there and typed up a little note! So, now we are down to eight icons instead of nine. That might change though........... :-)
• Tabbed Slideshow Player!
• I made this tabbed video player for the MY VIDEOS page on the Main Site. I was thinking....."could I put that on the PHOTOS page and embed slideshows instead of videos?" So....I tried it! And to my surprise!.... IT WORKED! WHAT! So, I put the rest of the slideshows in there. But some pages have different albums. So, on the main photo page the player has the POTW and the Latest Photos embedded. Then it has links to get to the other categories. Like CATS. That has three different slideshows. So, on that page I embedded those. It's just a never ending list of Tabbed Players. :-P
• But it worked and I like it! Go check them out!
• New Menu Animation...
• The menu on the Main Site has been the same for..... a while. The last appearance change I did was making the hover color a bit brighter in V.21! Well, I wanted something new. So, I looked at different animations. I have been wanted to rebuild my menu in a better way. And this one I found looked cool. I liked it's animations. But, it just wouldn't work. So, I had to stick with the one I had. I was looking at it's code, just studying. I do that a lot. The more I know, the more I can do! I noticed a part about animations, "slideUp" and "slideDown". Then I looked at the one I was trying to rebuild it off of and it said "fadeIn" "FadeOut". I was like....."hmmmm..... What if I change the 'slides' into 'fades' in the menu's code..." AND BOOM! It worked! I liked the way it looked but I wasn't sure. So, I asked my helpful Aunt if she liked it. She did. THUS! The menu now has a new animation style. I like it!
• FIREFOX!! HOW DARE YOU!!
• I often test my sites....everywhere. I use Chrome for...everything. Even on my iPad. But I still have everything else, just for testing reasons. I test them in Opera, Internet Explorer, I've added the new Microsoft Edge to the list, even Safari on the iPad. And not only that, but I have all those on different versions of OS as well. We only have Window 10 and Vista though. My little laptop of XP died. :-\ But that means different IE versions. Like everything work in IE11 on my Win10 laptop. However, the basement computer has Vista and IE9. NOTHING WORKS! That led to the creation of the IE checker. So, I do a lot of testing! 
• When I got to Firefox... something was wrong.... The Bottom Bar.... WAS GONE! POOF! WHAT! WHY! Upon inspection, I found out that it's not gone. FF just loads it below the screen! The Bar has this "peek amount" setting. It tells the Bar how much it should stick up from the bottom of the window. I guess FF ignores that rule. I tested the on both computers and came to the same result. So, that led me to make a FF checker explaining the issue. Just like the IE checker. I'll work on getting the Bar to work so I don't have to do that!
• And not only that, but in the IE checker I suggest better browsers to use instead of IE. One of them was...Firefox. So, I changed that to Opera! I like Opera. It's gotten better over the years. I just don't use it because EVERYTHING is in Chrome.
• No More Lights...
• Yep, the Christmas lights are gone. Sad face. But the snow is still there! Look in the TOP BAR for the snow button!
• Lastly...TESTS!
• I was testing new things to do in my NEW YEARS REFRESH!
• I tested a new custom video player. Like for my blog. It's was blue and looked cool, but I didn't go with it. I liked where I'm at. Maybe in the future.
• I tried to rebuild the BWTV section again. But, I learned it was perfect the way it is.
• And then I tried to rebuild the Bottom Bar in a simpler way. But, I failed. Then I tried to clean out more of its code...and broke it. So, I guess it's perfect the way it is as well!

And that's it! It was a good start to the new year! I still have some bugs to work out with the new colors. Making sure EVERYTHING looks nice and works. If you see a problem, tell me! I have contract forms in the side bars of all the sites. I'm already starting on the next update. I don't know what new things it'll add, but right now it's focusing on something that I haven't mentioned in a while. Something that I haven't forgotten about. See you then!