CSS and Standards Lessons

Great article on CSS and web standards.  12 lessons in all, from A List Apart.

Dynamic Drive gets CSS

Dynamicdrive.com has just started their new CSS library.  They used to focus only on DHTML scripts but recently began sharing their CSS scripts, which grew rapidly.

Web Dev’s handbook

A huge resource on everything relating to web development.  Hundreds of links, categorized into everything from AJAX to SEO.  Link.

Tweaking the site 2

Thanks to placing certain “list” tags in certain places, everything validates again (stupid search box). I’m still playing with how things look here though, as I got bored with all the white space.

Tweaking the site

So, I changed a couple of things around here and for some reason it doesn’t validate any longer.  It claims to have something to do with the search form on the side bar.
This is total crap, IMO, as the sidebar wasn’t even touched…yet it validated just fine before I messed with stuff.  Stupid “valid” code.  [...]

ESPN saves huge amounts of bandwidth

By chaging their site from tables to CSS, ESPN is now saving about 730 terabytes a year in bandwidth.  That’s unreal.  Read more about it here.

Why to use web standards

You know those tag lines on sites that say “XHTML” or “CSS Compliant” (see my footer)?  Well, those are called web standards and many people try to use them, while others say they aren’t important.  Here is a website that lists 10 reasons why you should use them.  I’m all for it.  Link.

CSS Generator

Sweet!  This is a great CSS generator for those of you wanting to develop your own blog themes or just websites in general.  You input the deminsions for your 1-3 column site, what type of “DOCTYPE” your trying to achieve, and wa-la.  It generates your CSS automatically.  Check it out.

Roundcube Webmail

If you use your hosts’ webmail and you’re on a linux box, there’s a 8/10 chance your using something like Squirrelmail or equivalent.  I’ve never liked those programs (although Squirrel wasn’t sooo bad), so I came across one that’s still in Alpha testing called Roundcube.  Seems very promising as it’s coded using XHTML and CSS2, [...]

New Theme

So, I made a new theme. I started with the default Kubrick theme for WordPress and stripped it down to nothing, structurally. Then I used Notepad++ to write a style-sheet from freakin’ scratch…even the “about” information that WP needs was written barebones.
I realize there’s not much “pretty” to this site but I honestly [...]

The MT saga continues…

Tonight, I decided to journey into MT a little more and experiment with the site CSS and layout. I decided to try loading some plugins from the Six Apart”power tools” download area, starting with Style Catcher. This particular plugin supposedly allows for easy theme download / integration.

Listing categories in WP

Today, I modified my sidebar (specifically my category listings) to show how many posts are linked to their respective parent. This was yet another enlightening way that WP is teaching me “code”, so I thought I would share my short experience.
First, I needed to clean up the code that I was using from The [...]