2006

  1. Yes I Know It Is Broken

    A recent submission through the contact form:
    Broken display
    Your entire website is extremely broken in all browsers I tested: Firefox 1.5.0.8, Internet Explorer 6.0.2900, and Netscape. In IE the CSS is totally ignored, so everything displays as plain text.
    First let me say, I know there is the issue of (fill in the blank here).
    If you understand […]

  2. Going Beyond with Permalinks and Rewrites

    I am not writing a guide here, but I am writing notes for how to get more out of permalinks and URI rewrites. When I switched all of my site to WordPress 1.5, I wrote custom rewrite rules in the .htaccess file to maintain the important URIs. (I milked the mention of my website […]

  3. Prepend Is Preword

    I had one of those moments recently. The moment of fighting the authority of spell check. It is sad. So sad because, I honestly thought–not thought—knew—my word was legit. The word was prepend. The word means is the antonym of append or the same meaning as prefix.
    If you have a computer programming background, you […]

  4. From TypePad to WordPress with Slugs

    As this post is already fairly long in length, I did not go into every detail. Such as, I omit how to set your permalinks to match TypePad and how to make an MySQL query. I hope this post helps someone out there.
    Although WordPress has a built-in import feature for TypePad/Movable Type, it […]

  5. DOM Selectors API

    A quick glance at the Selectors API indicates to me that I am not alone in my desire to retrieve DOM elements with CSS selector syntax.

  6. Drop Down Llama Menu II

    The Drop Down Llama Menu is revisited to work for generally use—even IE6.

  7. Startup Paisley

    I like paisleys and I want to be able to create them myself. My research comes up with information the they can be created with fractals but no actually details. So I gone about my attempt to draw them. My first attempt along with it a repeating pattern.

  8. Out of My Way: I’m Dragging 2

    A another idea based upon the earlier post.
    The Problem
    When dragging an item, the target is underneath (hence blocked) by a window, pallet, toolbar, etc.
    A Solution
    If a window can accept the draggable and the window below it can also accept it, then the top window can display a Hide button that is triggered not with clicking […]

  9. My Sketchbook

    I added a new category and new type of post to this site. It is something that I have already been doing (without knowing explicitly) and now I plan to make them public. What is it? It is part of my sketchbook. Hopefully this will help me keep a record of […]

  10. Out of My Way: I’m Dragging

    The Problem
    When dragging an item, the target is underneath (hence blocked) by a window, pallet, toolbar, etc.
    A Solution
    Any window (and such) that cannot accept (meaning your cursor changes to a circle with the cross through it when over) the draggable item will get out of the way. They can shrink, resize, move, or fade […]