Check out my latest series on DevLounge, How to Make a Magazine-Style Homepage with Drupal, Pt 1. Part 2 is now up will be up soon. In the mean time, check out my other post called Web 2.0, Future Creep, and the Irony of Frameworks.
I spent last night and today hacking away on the Blueprint CSS Architect tool. I realized that it was difficult to use and it required a lot of setup that I perceived as a deterrent to its success.
The latest iteration of Blueprint CSS Architect has a couple of new features that I would like [...]
This is old-hat now but it’s still useful.
The actual specificity of a group of nested selectors takes some calculating. Basically, you give every id selector (”#whatever”) a value of 100, every class selector (”.whatever”) a value of 10 and every HTML selector (”whatever”) a value of 1. Then you add them all up and hey [...]
I just finished testing all the browsers I have in Dromaeo, Mozilla’s Javascript performance test suite. Here’s what I came up with: FF 2 (loaded with plugins): 10815ms; FF 3.0.1 (no plugins): 1789ms; Chrome:444ms;Safari 3.1.2:1961ms; Opera 9.5: 1765ms; IE 8, 7, and 6: Crashed. FF 3.0.1 Linux: 2044ms. I’ve excluded FF 2 from the chart [...]
#cformsform{
margin-top: .8em;
}
.cform, #usermessagea{
font-family: arial,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
.cform label{
display: block;
}
.cform .cf_hidden{
display: none;
}
.cform .reqtxt,.cform .emailreqtxt{
color: #b30018;
padding-left: 5px;
}
.linklove{
display: none;
}
.cf-box-group label{
display: inline;
font-weight: normal;
}
.cf-ol li{
padding-top: .4em;
}
.cf-ol li.cf-box-group{
padding-bottom: .25em;
padding-top: 0px;
}
.cf-box-title{
font-weight: bold;
padding-top: .4em;
}
.failure, .notice, .success{
border: 2px solid #ddd;
margin-bottom: 1em;
margin-top: .8em;
padding: .8em;
}
.failure{
background: #FBE3E4;
border-color: #FBC2C4;
color: #8a1f11;
}
.notice{
background: #FFF6BF;
border-color: #FFD324;
color: #514721;
}
.success{
background: #E6EFC2;
border-color: #C6D880;
color: #264409;
}
.failure a{
color: #8a1f11;
}
.notice a{
color: #514721;
}
.success a{
color: #264409;
}
It is with great satisfaction that I present to you dBlogIt.com, the new home of dBlogIt! Yay! In addition to a place of it’s own I’ve moved the whole thing over to Movable Type (a professional publishing platform) in order to speed up page load time for you, my faithful readers.
But that’s not all! [...]
Well it may not be spring any more (at least here in Arizona), but it still feels like Spring Cleaning time to me. Mary and I have been on a cleaning spree at home, throwing stuff out, Freecycling, and pairing down most everything we have to the bare essentials. I do this on a regular [...]
In part 1 of this 2 part series of posts, I talked about a cool Facebook app called The Political Compass. In this post I wanted to give props to the excellent app called MyType. MyType is a Meyers-Briggs/Jung personality type questionnaire, but unlike other free personality type tests on the web, it has the [...]
