WordPress theme, css and plugins now compatible with IE7

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What a horrible trial-and-error life web designers lead! After too much hair-pulling, this site now looks as it should on IE7. Issues:

  • IE7 does not like div tags between li tags – so I reworked everything to oblige
  • IE7 requires some hacking with padding and margin to get my rounded corners css to work

I hope I never have to touch it again (but I will).

This site now has pretty valid CSS and XHTML, and resizes pretty well too. Try it out with Ctrl+ to increase text size, Ctrl- to decrease. Change the resolution. Stretch it, pull it, bend it – better than Stretch Armstrong! (sorry, no green goo though…)

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Comments | Saturday, August 30, 2008

WordPress Lovefest

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Added the following plugins to this blog:

They seem to play well together. I’m using the first for comments and the second for registration. They both use reCAPTCHA, which I think I like. :P Took a few theme/style tweaks. I guess I’ll be stuck with this theme for a while. :>

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Comments | Thursday, August 7, 2008

Persistent category toggle on your WordPress 2.6 home page

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I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.6, and tried to tidy up a bit. My favorite trick for today came from here, where the author discusses a “geek switch” to turn off his more technical material. I have a Chatter category that’s in the same boat – sometimes I want to see it, sometimes I don’t. And I don’t want first-time visitors to have to see it.

I modified the original author’s toggle approach a bit, widgetized, with a touch more Javascript and updated for WordPress 2.6. You can see the toggle in the sidebar to the right, try clicking on it. Pretty fun eh?

See my Toggle Category wiki article for the gory details on setting this baby up. I <3 WordPress.

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Comments | Thursday, July 24, 2008