Archive for September, 2006
Warning: Off Topic Post (But Read It Anyway)
Posted on Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Yeah, this is off topic, but I have to tell everyone I can about the amazing news I received yesterday. It won’t take me long, but I have to get it off my chest. Here goes…
My band, Hammer VS The Snake were played on Steve Lamacq’s show on Radio 1 on Monday night!
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IF Internet Explorer THEN Do Something Else (A How To…)
Posted on Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Thanks to the magic of Google Analytics I have discovered that a good number of this blog’s visitors reach here with searches to do with Internet Explorer’s conditional comments. This is due to my post, a month back, extolling the use of conditional comments instead of CSS hacks. More recently I considered that if someone was searching for information on conditional comments then they were unlikely to find interest in an article merely telling them they should use them. Then along came the latest ProBlogger Group Writing Project - How To… and it all made sense. So here is how you can improve your code and drop those worthless CSS hacks; How to use conditional comments - the practical version.
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Plugin Day: Gravatars, Subscriptions, Related Posts, Previews?
Posted on Friday, September 15th, 2006
Today I spent a little time improving my comment area just for you. At least I tried, here’s what I did:
- Gravatars
- Pictures are wonderful, so if you have a gravatar and make a comment, your gravatar will now appear thanks to Skippy’s Gravatar Plugun. This had to be the easiest addition to the site today, just a few touches added to the style sheet and voila!
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This Week’s Aims
Posted on Sunday, September 10th, 2006
Last time I wrote down what I aimed to do in a week, I only managed one part of the checklist. This time will be better.
This week I will be sorting several things out on this site as well as posting some tasty bits of code, let’s see what’s in store:
Stuff I Couldn’t Use Firefox Without
Posted on Friday, September 8th, 2006
Continuing in my series of what I must have on a computer for it to feel like mine, I thought I might share with you my list of Firefox extensions that make a fresh install of Firefox feel alien to me now. They may not all be of use to everyone, but have a look and see if your missing out.