I'm not sure why I find the Dullest Blog in the World hysterically funny, but apparently I'm not the only one. … [Read more...] about Entertainment for the slow-witted
Web Design
Housekeeping
If you tried to contact me this morning, do so again. The form was broken. I've added quite a few of my daily reads to the sidebar. More on the way. … [Read more...] about Housekeeping
Intro to Movable Type
I have been forgetting to mention it here, but Dorothea is doing a great introduction to Movable Type over at Caveat Lector. It starts with "What's a Movable Type Template?", which is as good a place to start as any. MT newbies would probably be better off if they could view … [Read more...] about Intro to Movable Type
Reaching new lows
Sci-Fi has scraped the bottom of the barrel and is pulling up splinters. I caught the second episode of Roar last night, and it's even worse than I remembered. Even seeing Heath Ledger shirtless is not worth the agony of the dialogue, the plot, the casting, and the costumes. The … [Read more...] about Reaching new lows
How Dreamweaver is pissing me off today
Normally Dreamweaver makes my life easier. It has lots of nice things, like snippets and synchronization and stuff. Today is not normal. Today I have discovered that Dreamweaver is rewriting my PHP code without my permission. The pages in question are in PHP, but are … [Read more...] about How Dreamweaver is pissing me off today
Landscape printing
Ran across a hack for IE that forces content to print in landscape mode. It's a perversion of a proprietary CSS value that's meant for languages that should be printed right to left. … [Read more...] about Landscape printing
CSS Links
I had this in my blog at work, but I thought I'd copy it here too…. General CSS Panic Guide CSS for Layout A List Apart on how and why they switched to CSS: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Ditto for Wired News Little Boxes at glish.com Blue Robot Real World Style … [Read more...] about CSS Links
CSS Primer
I found this in my files at work today. I don't know when or why I wrote it, but it might be of use to someone…. CSS is a badly named, very powerful tool for controlling the look of your site. CSS is good for making site-wide style definitions. You can replace a common … [Read more...] about CSS Primer
Semantic Decoration
Doug Bowman (of Wired News) has written a lovely article on how to use the background-image property to display text as images with full accessibility. (In other words, how to put your text in images without feeling guilty.) Great stuff. … [Read more...] about Semantic Decoration
Happy Blog Fun
Sidebars in category pages working at last. Yay! Next I'll be making these pages look a little less like the default MT styles. … [Read more...] about Happy Blog Fun
