Even more math…
Friday, October 2nd, 2009 Posted in Amortization Calculator | No Comments »Hi, folks. It has been quite a while since I've made any substantial additions to the site. I just added a new document with some new formulas for directly calculating the interest portion of any payment, and for ...
A little Halloween treat
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | 3 Comments »I added a little Halloween decoration to the calculator page, for some holiday variety. Thanks to Don Barnett for the cool pumpkin background.
Calculator Printing and Display tweaks
Friday, October 17th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | 1 Comment »I've made some slight modifications to the schedule display: alternating rows of the table now have color bands to help identify rows more easily. In the process, I was also able to reduce (slightly) the amount of HTML ...
Baubles and bangles and beads
Sunday, August 10th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator, Music / Art / Design | No Comments »Through trial and error I have played with the calculator's web appearance. I think it looks more attractive, and I hope you do too. I would never claim to be a graphic designer, but I do what I ...
Printing Schedules (again)
Friday, August 8th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | 6 Comments »Hi, folks. I've heard from a few of you who have said that you have difficulty printing schedules, or that schedules produce a lot of blank pages. I still haven't experienced this problem myself because I can't test ...
Now printed schedules are just a bit gooder
Wednesday, July 30th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | 1 Comment »It turns out there is HTML which can indicate which header material should be duplicated across multi-page tables: the <thead></thead> tags. So now that I've re-learned this and tweaked the calculator again, multi-page tables will have the column ...
More on rate-finding
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | 6 Comments »In responding to a question in blog comments about rate-finding, I noticed that the calculator didn't behave well if the Payment Amount could not pay off the loan after the Number of Regular Payments had elapsed, no matter how low ...
Mmm, more stylesheet goodness
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | 6 Comments »For those of you who like hard copies of your amortization schedules, I have produced a new stylesheet which should make printing the schedule a little less ugly than it may have been before. I still wish there was ...
The Trials of Moving
Monday, July 14th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | No Comments »Well, it has happened. What I have feared the most. Calamity. Pain. Suffering. Ego-shattering. In moving the calculator to its new home, it lost its long-held rank as the number one result for the search “amortization” on Google. It is ...
Negative Amortization
Friday, July 11th, 2008 Posted in Amortization Calculator | No Comments »I've added a new entry to the FAQ regarding negative amortizations. In the process, I also noticed that some of the summary information produced by the calculator and final schedule row are not completely consistent in the NegAm scenario. ...