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Archive for March, 2007

The Bogon Ate it– A little known SEO problem when changing Webhosts

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

In researching something else I stumbled across this great article on Bogons, a problem most people don’t know exist. What’s a Bogon? According to the article:
There are billions of potential IP addresses in the world, including a lot of IP addresses that are not being used. They are either being held in reserve for future [...]

A couple Flash issues

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Now that the commercial browsers (MSIE and Opera) have had to implement “click to activate” barriers on flash controls, the Flash Satay method of embedding Flash animation into webpages is much less desirable. The deconcept blog has the best Standards Compliant alternative, called SWFObject (formerly called FlashObject. Adobe PR and Legal don’t communicate, it seems. [...]

Targeting Safari and Firefox in CSS hacks

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007

Tanrei has a great article on some css filters I was unaware of. In different combinations they allow you to filter to different browsers, especially Safari, that were tough to deal with in the past when the stray bit of layout went awry in that browser (which luckily doesn’t happen TOO often!)
The browsers that these [...]

Forms and Usability

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

While trying to come up with a good alternative for styling the forms for a client’s directory site, I was poking around for inspiration and found this excellent article about Label Placement in Forms, which uses eyetracking studies to determine which form element and label arrangement is the most advantageous and least strain on the [...]

Hacks for various flavors of IE

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

There’s an article on the Front End about a new parsing bug that was introduced in IE7 that now allows us to target in ONE stylesheet the different IE versions. It works like this:
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p.styleme { color:red } /* IE7 */
* html p.styleme { color:blue } /* other IE */
*|html p.styleme { color:pink } /* FF, [...]

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