Ok I am officially doing a very geeky thing – setting up Wordpress on my iPhone so I can update my blog on the move.
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Wordpress is probably the best free system available today – fact.
I have just upgraded the wordpress installation behind the site in preparation for a completely new look and feel to the blog. I have just upgraded to Wordpress 2.8.2 from… wait for it… 2.0.1!
Lots will now be thinking, WTF, who cares? The geeks amongst you will be shocked at how and why I had not upgraded sooner. The difference between the two versions is quite large so I expected the upgrade to cause a few issues.
Continue reading ‘Successful upgrade of Wordpress from ancient to new’
Have you ever had a div where the last thing in there (or even the only thing) is an image? If so you will most likely have found that most browsers puts 3px or so extra space beneath your image.
Here’s what I mean
Thisis a div which consists of a background image for the blue background, a paragraph for the text and an image of a heart to finish. Ideally I do not want the extra few pixels at the bottom showing my backgroudn through.
<div class=’testimonial’>
<p>“Thank you so much for your help. I met Bob through the site after less than a month, and we are still together and happy all these months on. Thanks Motorway dating ”
<br /><br />
<strong>Katie x</strong>
</p>
<img alt=’Motorway dating testimonial’ src=’images/testimonial_bottom.gif’ width=’178′ height=’76′ />
</div>
You would think that adding margin: 0px; padding: 0px will sort the problem but nope, nadda.
I tried googling but couldn`t find anything on the subject apart from suggestions of zero margins and paddings despite many people coming across this very annoying problem.
So I put the good old thinking cap on and remembered this nifty little piece of css
vertical-align: text-bottom;
Hurray! Place this onto your image css
.testimonial img {vertical-align: text-bottom;}
and voila, no extra space beneath your image. Just to prove it here is what my testimonial looks like now
Hope this helps.
I have just finished reading what is probably one of the best and heart hitting stories I have ever read. For me that is quite a statement, but the story is close to my heart and expresses feelings that unfortunately I don`t have the skills to write down (as readers of my blog will appreciate hehe).
The story is that of losing a pet, someone (yes I use the word someone for a pet) whome shared your life, been through highs and lows, stayed with you and showed you unconditional love throughout your time with them.
The author is Bruce Fogle, a vet who recently lost his six-year-old female golden retriever. It is great to read someone who expresses the same feelings I feel towards my dog. Some people think I am silly and stupid for how I treat my best friend, I say read this and if you don`t share the relationship with your dog Bruce had with his and I have with Molly, then I pity you but hope that one day you will also share this unique and truely amazing relationship with your pet.
Here is the article on The Independent website.
If you live near Derbyshire you will most likely bump into Molly and myself out walking, although sometimes Molly decides to play hide and seek. In true Where’s Wally stylee, here’s is our own version, Where’s Molly.
The people (word people used loosly) behind this great country of ours need a major kick up their ass, what are they thinking approving the sale and manufacture of electric shock dog collars?
Many months ago I (and many of my friends along with thousands of others) signed a petition to prevent the manufacture and sale of electric shock dog collars. Now I don`t think any sane human being would need any explanation as to why I signed the petition.
Continue reading ‘Electric shock dog collar approved by government’
As if I don`t have enough on my plate at the moment with the development of several websites on the go at the moment I have started to build a dog rescue / dog lovers website.
Continue reading ‘New dog rescue and dog lovers website on the horizon’
A month or so ago Firefox updated itself to version 2.0.0.6, as a result my firefox search bar options have been missing missing google.co.uk. I use the search bar within firefox and am returned with www.google.com results.
I trawled the Firefox website and Googled galore for an answer to this but found bob all, so this afternoon fed up of having to manually goto google.co.uk for my searches, I thought I would have a dig around.