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Drupal 6 register_globals is enabled

May 31, 2010
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I am learning Drupal finally. As a person who learns by doing, I have three separate Drupal installs going at once and I expect to have two working websites out of the deal within a month. Don’t worry, I’ll keep you updated. I am using Drupal 6.16. First thing I ran into is the register_globals [...]

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Calculating a selector’s specificity

March 17, 2010

(from http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html#specificity) A selector’s specificity is calculated as follows: * count 1 if the declaration is from is a ‘style’ attribute rather than a rule with a selector, 0 otherwise (= a) (In HTML, values of an element’s “style” attribute are style sheet rules. These rules have no selectors, so a=1, b=0, c=0, and d=0.) [...]

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10 things web design taught me in 2009

December 30, 2009
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The thing I love about web design is getting to learn something new everyday. There are a few lessons this past year that stand out. Maybe you can relate. Do not buy software that does not have a manual or help files. If a company doesn’t take time to write out a FAQ or help [...]

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What’s in an Illustrator file?

December 20, 2009

Mordy explains it best, so I will let him. http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com/2006/11/whats-in-file.html

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I learned something today

July 12, 2009

I have a new server now, so I am in the process of transferring all of my sites and my customer’s sites from the old hosting account to the new server. The old Dreamweaver sites all went smoothly as expected. The newer WordPress sites on the other hand, have been a little more challenging. What [...]

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Get rid of ugly yellow form fields with CSS

June 25, 2009

Why do some fields in the online form have an ugly yellow background? The culprit is the the Google toolbar that people often install in their browser. Part of the AutoFill feature is to highlight in yellow, #FFFF80, the fields that AutoFill can fill. These are form fields with names like “Name” and “Email”. How [...]

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Typography Links

June 13, 2009

Design with type I Love Typography The Font Game. Fun! Typography Resources Know Your Type Identifont – identify fonts What The Font – identify fonts Max Kerning How to Design a Font A lovely wedding invite – all typography Where to Buy Fonts MyFonts VEER Font Diner Letterhead Fonts P22 Garage Fonts Fonts.com Heoffler & [...]

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Everything you need to design a website

June 11, 2009

Assuming you have basic HTML/CSS skills, you can find everything you need on the web available at no cost to design a nice looking, professional website. First we will start with some web design tutorials. Next you need a grid system to hold up your site structure. Try the 960 Grid. Very good, very free. [...]

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Illustrator CS4 Tools Panel Overview

May 29, 2009
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How to add a transparent favicon

May 4, 2009

Your favicon should be viewable across multiple browsers. Different browsers read things differently, so using two separate favicon images will assure the graphic will have a transparent background in all of them. Create a new 16×16 pixel document with a transparent background in Photoshop. Draw or paste a graphic into the space. Part of a [...]

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