Category: Technical

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I found this post on web fonts and embedded fonts very illuminating. It illustrates the various browser issues that web surfers and designers have to deal with on a daily basis.

Meanwhile, RichardandMeghan.com is up and running. Take a look! More work ahead. At the moment, I’m exploring ways of embedding live video chat/conferencing on the site, but it appears that free options are limited. I found some net info on the subject, but I was hoping to use an existing platform like Yahoo Messenger to host video chat directly on the blog. Doesn’t look like there are any ways to embed YIM’s webcam into a site yet.

Trying to hunt down a footer alignment issue in the Wolfextreme theme led me to use this full-featured Firefox plugin called Web Developer. I am enjoying exploring all the different options to inspect web design elements without necessarily scanning through hundreds of lines of code. Highly recommended!

It’s been a frustrating road trying to switch style sheets for different categories, but a very helpful post at Blue J Weblog has gotten me closer to accomplishing this goal. I basically have to insert a conditional in order to detect the category, then implement a different style sheet. I also grabbed some ideas from a post at the WordPress.org support forums about this same issue.

There are still a few bugs I’m trying to work out.

Meanwhile, I am happy to have found a web based color picker at ColorSchemer.com. It has made finding colors by hex code a lot easier to match.

After unsuccessfully implementing an integrated logon page within my WordPress sites, I discovered today this great plugin at Blue Anvil that allows login through a sidebar widget. Initially, I had trouble setting it up because it kept pointing to the server name minus port (my IIS and network setup prohibits this). After some tweaking in the code to make the path include the server port, I managed to get it working right. Thanks, Mike at Blue Anvil!

Looked for the following code:
$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

And changed to:
$_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"].":".$_SERVER["SERVER_PORT"].$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']