Of course, we don’t always want to be happy, serene and contented. If like me you want to add a little anger, frustration and confusion into your life here are two tips that will lead you down the dark path of endarkenment. (This won’t work for people with Phds in computing)
1) Install wordpress
2) Now try to get jQuery to work.
3) Now watch your frustration, anger and insanity grow as NOTHING BLOODY WORKS
Of course those familiar with computers know that nothing does what it is supposed to and computers are crap.
However, if the above doesn’t appeal to you, I did find this tutorial which shows you how to install a text hide effect. And it actually bloody works. I literally fell off my chair when it did what it was supposed to do. Here’s an example of it in action on my Learn Japanese site. Click “click for the answers”.
Feeling serene again? Well, you could always try getting it to work in Internet Explorer…mu ha ha ha….
UPDATE
I was wrong. I’m too dumb to get JQuery to work in WordPress. There are too many conflicting scripts that result in unpredictable bugs, hair pulling and much swearing at the computer screen. Even ready made jQuery based plugins for wordpress don’t play nicely together.
Then we have these effingly annoying version updates for wordpress which means that you have the choice of either having plugins that work with an out of date version, or a new version where none of the plugins have been tested.
Sod it, I’m staying with Flash. And no, I don’t care about Flash being crap for google indexing, make great content and people will find you site anyway…says I (just some other idiot with blog about blah, blah, blah and whatever)
