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Entries from October 2003

Go learn CSS

At css-discuss and The css-discuss Wiki.

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October 31st, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Fighting with floats and images

I’m not the only one trying to get images to show up in IE6 when using a CSS float to flow text around the image. The ideas in this thread worked. Adding position:relative; to my css for the img tag did the trick.

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October 31st, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

A bunch of CSS float tutorials

This is a well done list of step by step CSS float tutorials.

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October 31st, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Top 10 Reasons to Learn CSS

Enough said.

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October 31st, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Why use CSS instead of tables?

This is a great presentation of the why’s and how’s of using CSS instead of tables for designing a website.

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October 31st, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Using alternate style sheets

Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets.

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October 31st, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS · Web Dev

Guide to Grammar and Writing

A very helpful guide to proper grammar in sentences, paragraphs, essays and research papers.

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October 30th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Writing

Obfuscation of E-mail addresses

“Enkoder Form 6.0 - Protect your Email address from Spam.”

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October 29th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Email

Make Windows XP Self-Maintaining

“Fred Langa explains how to automate Windows XP tools and tasks that normally require manual intervention.”

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October 27th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: System Help

Secrets of the Cheap Tool Trade

Flanders lists several free or cheap tools for maintaining a quality website.

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October 27th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

Pivot

Pivot is a web-based tool to help you maintain dynamic sites, like weblogs or online journals. Pivot is released under the GPL so it is completely free to use. It is written in PHP, and does not require additional libraries or databases to function.

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October 21st, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Blogging · CMS · Web Dev

MT Text formatting buttons in Mozilla

Getting the IE-specific buttons in Movable Type when using a bookmarklet entry template. Grab the files here.
Grab the template file for getting rich text editing in new Movable Type entries here.

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October 16th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType

CSS tabs with sub menus

Kalsey Consulting Group has a very nice CSS based tab navigation system with sub menus.

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October 16th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Tab Wraps

How to keep CSS tabs from wrapping to multiple lines.

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October 16th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

More 3 column CSS layouts

A comprehensive list of 3 column css layouts and browsers they are compatible with.

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October 16th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Netscape Navigator 4 compatible 3 column CSS

Basic NN4-compatible 3-column CSS layout.

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October 16th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Movable Type Archives at Kalsey Consulting Group

Here’s a helpful list of MT links, how-to’s, plug-ins and much more.

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October 16th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType

Button Maker

“This is a user interface to Bill Zeller’s brilliant button maker application.”

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October 16th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

Writing resources to inspire and challenge

Ten Commandments for Christian Writers
Communicating Christ to Secular Audiences
Don’t assume that others know anything!
Christian house-style Grammar and punctuation guide
Writing for the Web, Journalism, not preaching
LibrarySpot
Writing for the Web Takes Special skills That (Happily) Are Easy to Learn
The Journey of Journaling
Daily Thought
Writing enticing headlines, subheadings and links
Five Minute Miracles
Bible Study for Writers
Writing from Your Senses

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October 15th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Writing

35,000 quotations

Searchable database of 35,000 famous quotations

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October 10th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Writing

The Amazing Rollover

The Amazing Rolloverer Layout-o-matic spits out the code for those cool rollovers coded with CSS.

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October 10th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

CSS layout generators galore

From the 10/9 GnomeReport this list of sites that generate CSS layouts could come in handy.
http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/layouts/3Col_OrderedAbsolute.mhtml
http://www.csscreator.com/version1/
http://nide.snow.utoronto.ca/css/
http://www.cathyjenkins.com/downloads/css.html
http://www.xmldir.de/quickcss/
http://www.inknoise.com/experimental/layoutomatic.php
http://www.wannabegirl.org/firdamatic/

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October 10th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Help with formatting photo galleries in MT

MTPhotoGallery plugin for formating your galleries.

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October 8th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType

MT Plugin’s

MT Plugin’s Directory is a great resource for - yes, all the MT Plugin’s available.

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October 8th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: MovableType

CD Autorun and Setup Launchers

I’ve been wanting to create a self launching cd to give to family members. This site looks helpful.

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October 7th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: System Help

Easily create htaccess files

Check out the .htaccess File Wizard.

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October 5th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

More breadcrumbs - breadcrumb navigation

Breadcrumbs PHP Class - custom php breadcrumb navigation for your site.

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October 5th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: PHP

CSS Layout-o-matic

Need a quick web page template? One column? Two? Three? You want headers and footers with that? Layout-o-matic is sweet. Evidently it’s inspiration is in List-o-matic for generating CSS for formatting lists in many forms, who’s ispiration is in Listamatic which shows a variety of examples of lists formatted with CSS.

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October 5th, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: CSS

Quick color mixer

A very cool and “quick” color mixer that gives a handful of usable colors for your web design needs.

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October 3rd, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev

Help with rss

IFC has put together a piece that into’s rss.

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October 3rd, 2003 · Comments Off | Tags: Web Dev