BugMeNot.com, which gives you a username and password so you can bypass required registration on annoying sites. The End-All Guide to Small-Screen Web-Dev. "It takes one gigantabig tutorial to teach you how to build sites for all those itty, bitty devices." A great last gasp … [Read more...] about Web Goodies
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Argh
I've just discovered that my entry from December 4th somehow got stuck in Draft mode. I've published it. It's not that interesting. The best thing about it was this link to Sara Donati [Rosina Lippi] on exclamation points. … [Read more...] about Argh
Absurdly simple PHP breadcrumbs
[updated Dec. 8, 2007] For my birthday, you get a gift of code. (Sorry, no returns.) I'm not exactly a PHP guru, so a while back I borrowed a breadcrumb script from some download site. It did what I wanted — used the directory tree to create the crumb trail — but it … [Read more...] about Absurdly simple PHP breadcrumbs
HTML/CSS from the ground up
The new HTML Dog tutorials are great. They cover both HTML and CSS and offer beginning, intermediate, and advanced guides for each. … [Read more...] about HTML/CSS from the ground up
Easy events calendars
To list upcoming events without going to all the trouble of creating a separate calendar blog, you can use upcoming.org to enter your events (and find other people going to them), and include the list in your blog. As long as you don't mind using third-party tools, that is. Nifty … [Read more...] about Easy events calendars
The theory of everything
Position Is Everything has two excellent new articles, Flowing and Positioning, which explains inline vs. box, absolute vs. relative, and other page flow mysteries, and Float: The Theory, which is a great title because floating is like physics; the reality is nothing at all like … [Read more...] about The theory of everything
Glitches fixed
I fixed the bottom of the page (by finding an old copy of the CSS file and replacing the corrupt one; and how it got corrupted I'll never know) and the search (it really helps when you attach an action to the form tag; sigh). If you find any other glitches, report them to your … [Read more...] about Glitches fixed
Love, your devoted authoress
The award for the funniest damn thing I've read all week goes to the Dear anonymous, homicidal, self-loathing protagonist thread at the NaNoWriMo forums, where stressed-out authors berate their protagonists for being boring, self-centered, or just there. "On second thought, I … [Read more...] about Love, your devoted authoress
Closing old comment threads and dealing with spam
Some of you may have noticed the atrocious comment spam that's been popping up here lately. I've deleted the comments as I've found them, but the spammers are finding old comment threads and flooding them with junk. When the new version of MT came out, I upgraded, but didn't do … [Read more...] about Closing old comment threads and dealing with spam
Friday afternoon smorgasbord
If you're relying on me for web design news, you've missed a lot in the past couple of weeks. Wendy Peck wrote a nice CSS Primer that's a little more coherent than mine, and I've already had occasion to send the link to half a dozen people. (CSSBook.com's resource guide should … [Read more...] about Friday afternoon smorgasbord
