Joseph Scott’s Blog

• The Prologuer Bot @ Webcracy – Some basic IM and Prologue integration
  Tags: im bot prologue wordpress

• CSS Reference – This looks promising.
  Tags: css reference

• woork: Digg-like navigation bar using CSS – Add this to my collection of pretty rounded menu bars.
  Tags: css digg menubar

• HTML Purifier – Filter your HTML the standards-compliant way! – Makes some big claims, would be interesting to see it put to the test.
  Tags: html php htmlpurifier filter xss

• zfs – Trac – Source and binaries for ZFS on Mac OS X. Seems safe to say that we’ll see ZFS as a built in feature in some future release of OS X (10.6 perhaps?).
  Tags: zfs macosx filesystem

• woork: Digg-like navigation bar using CSS – Add this to my collection of pretty rounded menu bars.
  Tags: css digg menubar

• HTML Purifier – Filter your HTML the standards-compliant way! – Makes some big claims, would be interesting to see it put to the test.
  Tags: html php htmlpurifier filter xss

• zfs – Trac – Source and binaries for ZFS on Mac OS X. Seems safe to say that we’ll see ZFS as a built in feature in some future release of OS X (10.6 perhaps?).
  Tags: zfs macosx filesystem

• 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design | Fonts | Smashing Magazine – That’s right, another font list.
  Tags: fonts

• favikon – Web tool for creating favicons.
  Tags: favikon favicon graphics

• WPhone Admin Plugin – iPhone admin for WordPress.
  Tags: iphone wordpress wphone

• A reversible password encryption routine for PHP – Encrypt and decrypt routines writing in PHP.
  Tags: encryption php security

• Tips For Creating Great Web Forms – CSS-Tricks – Making forms line up and look nice is still one of those things that is often too much work with CSS only.
  Tags: css forms

• WordPress Complete – Hey, it’s a WordPress book, neat.
  Tags: wordpress book

Here is an interesting approach to CSS debugging:

  * { outline: 2px dotted red }
  * * { outline: 2px dotted green }
  * * * { outline: 2px dotted orange }
  * * * * { outline: 2px dotted blue }
  * * * * * { outline: 1px solid red }
  * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid green }
  * * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid orange }
  * * * * * * * * { outline: 1px solid blue }

If you’ve ever been here before you’ll probably quickly realize that I’ve redesigned the site. I finally took some time over a few weeks to put together my own layout. I borrowed the feel of the layout from Russell Beattie. I’m not done yet, but it seems to be functional, so I figured it was better to get it up an live than to wait for it be complete/perfect.

I’m making more use of WordPress’s page feature and several plugins to get the features that I wanted. Here’s a list of the plugins I’m using (so far):

• WP-GateKeeper to prevent comment spam. This is a plugin that I was already using, but it is worth another mention.
• Jerome’s Keywords Plugin: This plugin manages tags for WP posts. This seems to be one of the best tag plugins for WP, it certainly has a lot of documention.
• Wordpress PHP Exec Plugin: The pages feature in WP is nice, but I needed to be able to run code from within a page, this plugin has worked well for that so far.

In the short term I need to get some sort search functionality going again. Perhaps I’ll just stick with using Google for that. I’m hoping that tagging my posts will be more useful than using the categories support in WP.

I was working on some site design and needed to tweak it for IE (IE dev team, hello, is this thing on? Better CSS support please) in order to make look more along the lines of what I had intended (which is the way that FireFox and Safari display it). So off to Google I went hoping to find some way to easy include CSS only for IE browsers. Low and behold it is amazingly easy! I first came across this example which lead me to the conditional comments site. All I can say is, wow! It works, it’s simple, doesn’t feel like a complete crazy hack (although some might say the mere fact that this has to be done at all is a hack) and it only took me a minute or two to put it all together.

It is a shame that this has to be done, but at least there is an easy way to do it. Here’s an example of including CSS that will only be used by Internet Explorer (IE):


<!--[if IE]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen"
href="/ie-style.css" />
<![endif]-->


It seems that you could include any sort of HTML (or JavaScript?) between these conditional comments.