I have to be, it's how I make my living!!!  ;>

At work I do a *LOT* more sophisticated web programming.  For instance, our
vice presidents have to get attendance from the depot managers in their
region (East, West, Latin America, and Corporate).  What they used to do was
have a secretary create an Excel spreadsheet, the DMs would save the file,
change the file, save the changes, then send the changed file to the VPs.
Then the VPs had to open each file (each VP has about 15 DMs, or "reports"),
keep track of who submitted their attendance, send out reminders to those
who didn't, then when they all reported the VP had to send an email to HR.

Now, one of the VPs travels a lot so he asked me to keep track of all his
DMs attendance.  *NO WAY* - if they don't listen to their *boss* about
reporting attendance, they sure weren't going to listen to me when I asked
them.

So, I created an automated calendar on our intranet site that has all the
holidats mared, but every other weekday has radio buttons for "Vacation,
Sick Day, Flex Holiday, Jury Duty, or None".  The calendar also checks
whether or not they have taken their "Choice" holiday (either MLK day or
President's day, but not both) and if one has been taken the other is not
available to take.  The calendar also checks to see if their one "Flex"
holiday has been taken and if it has it won't let them take another.

Every month, on the first of the month the page sends out automated reminder
emails to each of the "reports" - with a link for them to click to get to
the calendar.  They just have to click the link, then choose which / what
type of days they took (all days default to "None" so if they haven't taken
a day they don't have to click), then they hit "Submit" and they're done (no
more saving / changing / saving / sending and Excel spreadsheet, so it only
takes them about a minute as opposed to 5 - 10 minutes each month, so the
DMs *love* the new system).

Every day after the first that a DM *doesn't* submit an attendance report
they get *another* automated email reminder (with the link to click) and
their VP gets an automated email listing all his DMs who *haven't* reported
attendance yet.  Once all the DMs report attendance the VP gets an email
listing all the days each DM took off (and what type of absence it was) so
that the VP just has to forward that email to HR.

So now all the VPs have to do is click forward on one email and they don't
have to compile a report from emailed spreadsheets and they don't have to
track down those DMs who haven't reported (unless they keep getting an email
with the names of persons who haven't reported after an unreasonable length
of time).  So the VPs *love* the new system.

And I don't have to do anything at all - so *I* love the new system.

Anyway, that's the type of stuff I do for a living.  [Sorry, this got
long!!!]

Hugs,

CatNipped

There's actually a setting in firefox that allows you to *permanently* set all
fonts to be larger than the size specified on the site.  Unfortunately, you
need a plugin to access it; it's not part of the standard settings.  Anyway,
if text size often bothers you, this setting could help.

I've gotten very accustomed to just typing "ctrl, +" on many webpages, which
is the keystroke to increase the font size in mozilla.

Yep, I have my whole old web site cached on my hard drive, so all those
pictures go back up.  However I have to wait to the weekend to do that, so
this is going to be slow going (there were a *LOT* of pictures on my old web
site and I've taken *tons* more since then.

Thanks Tak!

Hugs,

CatNipped

Oh don't apologize!!  I *LOVE* when people point out mistakes to me - you
keep me from looking dumb to the rest of the world - editors and
proofreaders are the *best*!

Hugs,

CatNipped

Me too.  Whenever someone uses a texture or picture as a website background,
I want to beat them with a blunt object.

Ahem.  Sorry.

OK, I've changed it to bold type and a darker font so that it should be
easier to read.

Thanks all for the great feedback!

Hugs,

CatNipped