Archive for October, 2005
Free Xenon is Here
This is a not so temporary BLog set up until I can find a more permanent solution. It will also take me quite some time to create a new theme for the BLog as I have many other projects that demand my attention such as designing the site for my mothers’ insurance agency. I will [...]
CSS Fonts and Font Sizing
We have had some issues about fonts and font sizes. I though I would give some information regarding this.
Font Sizes
This odd 100.01% value for the font size compensates for several browser bugs. First, setting a default body font size in percent (instead of em) eliminates an IE/Win problem with growing or shrinking fonts out of [...]
Blurring the Lines of Separation
There are several layers to web development and that the Layers should be, as a rule, kept separate. I read the recent A list Apart article named JavaScript Triggers that stated the following:
Technically, adding this information to the class attribute is possible, but is it allowed to use this attribute for carrying information it was [...]
Lorem Ipsum and other such non-sense…
I am updating the site to include some more useful links. Here are some links about Lorem ipsum: Description and Ungreek’s Differring Source (Lorem Ipsum) Generator. More than you ever wanted to know about the correct usage of abbr and acronym courtesy of Lars Holst. To top it all off we have a little bit [...]
Robots, Spiders, and other Crawlers… Oh My!!
Robots are automated programs spawned by search engines to find and index content. Each search engine has it’s own robot, which are sometimes referred to as spiders, that (usually) leave a customized User Agent String to identify itself to web servers. Here are example user agent strings found on our server logs:
Googlebot/2.1+(+http://www.google.com/bot.html) // Google’s [...]
CSS 2.1 Specificity Calculation
There has been a round of posts that show how to calculate CSS 2.1 Specificity for a given rule to determine which style takes precedence on Molly.com, Malarky. There is also some info on HTML Dog, Meyer Web, and Juicy Studio as well.
It is not common to have problems with this. I have only [...]
