Though skinning CivicSpace is actually not that hard, USING it is a COMPLETELY different story. It amazes me that this system is used by government bureacrats . . . hmm, maybe that’s not so hard to understand after all– government bureacrats are, after all, the experts at obfuscation, smoke and mirrors, and confusing rules and […]

So I installed wp-spamassassin last night after that bizarre trackback spam episode, where I got over thirty trackback spams inside a couple hours, each of which had to be deleted one at a time. I haven’t gotten any more trackback spam since shortly after I installed the plugin, so I think it’s working (though there […]

Yeah, ever since I designed that blogskin for PC Mike and he not only blogged me but allowed me the linkback, things have been nuts here. He got hit hard with Comment Spam when he switched from TypePad to WordPress, and being a TV Celeb and all, who is linked from both the NBC News […]

The last couple years for me has been about getting my webskills up to par re xhtml and css. Though I can’t say I’m one of the experts, I’ve certainly developed more than enough competency to do whatever I need to do with xhtml/css in a reasonable amount of time, sometimes from scratch, […]

I’ve finally been making headway in the fight to make source ordered negative margin layouts work in WordPress 2.0 but it’s been an uphill battle.
The problem seems to be in clearing. A LOT more clearing elements are needed in the css to make layouts work in WordPress 2.0 themes in Firefox that aren’t needed in […]