Archive for July, 2007

css remix website is back up after hack

The css remix website was hacked last week but they are back up and running. Continue reading ‘css remix website is back up after hack’

Favourite youtube of the moment

People send me youtube video all the time and most of them are idiots after 5 minutes of fame and to make an easy buck but there are two videos that I love at the moment. Continue reading ‘Favourite youtube of the moment’

Speed up your css development

Everyone by now should be using css to style their websites, if you are still using tables for your layouts, may you be strung up by your short and curly’s and flogged until you promise never to use tables again! Continue reading ‘Speed up your css development’

The easiest possible print this page script ever

On a daily basis I stumble across many websites with a ‘print this page’ feature. Some use complex javascript to strip out images and certain content, others make a call to the database for simply the content text and others maintain seperate files made purely for printing! Continue reading ‘The easiest possible print this page script ever’

Image method to fix IE fieldset background bug

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We know by now that IE has a problem displaying a fieldset background colour or image incorrectly. The colour is bled out and overspills into the legend tag. But we don`t want our websites to look scratty, so lets fix it. Continue reading ‘Image method to fix IE fieldset background bug’

css method of fixing IE to display fieldset background correctly

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The problem IE faces when rendering fieldset background is that it applies the fieldset background to the legend, as well as the fieldset itself.

The solution to this is to seperate the fieldset from the legend. Here’s how I do it, you may be able to figure out another method but this one works perfectly fine for me; Continue reading ‘css method of fixing IE to display fieldset background correctly’

Forcing fieldset backgrounds to work in IE

Fieldsets are useful little things, they can easily segment or highlight areas on a website with much success. Use CSS to make our area stand out and give our fieldset a background colour or image. Our old friend Internet Explorer however doesn`t play ball with fieldset backgrounds. Continue reading ‘Forcing fieldset backgrounds to work in IE’

Get off your ass and get a job

The new and easiest get rich quick scheme sweeping the country? Go sue someone! Continue reading ‘Get off your ass and get a job’

Blacklisted website update day 5

Yes I know I missed out days 3 and 4 but even freelance web developers have a weekend you know!

Here are the links to the first 2 articles to exoplain what I am doing here; Continue reading ‘Blacklisted website update day 5′

Blacklisted website update day 2

In case you didn’t read my original article, I have taken over the SEO of a blacklisted website and been told by a Google official that my best bet is to use Google Webmaster Tools including sitemaps. Yesterday I set up a robots.txt file to inform the search engines of all of the dead pages left over in the index of the old site. I also created a sitemap xml file and submitted to the webmaster tools website application. Continue reading ‘Blacklisted website update day 2′