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    CSS Drop Shadows

    I noticed a lot of visitors are arriving here looking for information on adding drop shadows to images. As I flailed helplessly at this for a long time before finally settling on a simple method, I thought I’d add a little documentation. The previous entry I had on this was a little sketchy in that department. Also, some discussion popped up regarding text wrap at the excellent Learning Moveable Type site, so I thought I would elaborate on my method for handling images. First off, you need to go to A List Apart and read Sergio Villarreal’s excellent tutorial. Copy…

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    3 Column Fluid

    No, it’s not a particularly tall drink, it’s a way o of putting web content in 3 columns in a way that might load better no matter what web browser you use. A conversation with my mom-in-law makes me think I might have to come up with a better, more fluid layout for the (cough) somewhat speed- and display-challenged setup she’s currently using. So here’s a new 3-col layout via CSS method to check out. Found at culturekitchen

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    Yet Another Blog

    Things have been… rather busy at work. And I can’t really blog during the day, not really, shouldn’t do it. However, I feel this need to monitor feeds and watch for breaking news. It’s a post 9/11 thing. So I’ll be using the free, simple blogging tool provided with Bloglines to add links and a few short words to Blogula Clips . They’vre recently updated the little “clip/blog this” form to add more functionality,and I have the ability to use images now, too. Mostly, though, it will just be links. I don’t even have to leave the main Bloglines interface,…

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    Stumped Again

    I’m trying to figure out a way to get Full-screen calendars in Movable Type [dive into mark] to maybe work as an ongoing events calendar for the Holy Moly blog/website (which is otherwise coming along). I hit a point where I really needed an events calendar that can be updated by anyone with a sign-in, or at least easily updated via email to yours truly. David implemented one that I currently have linked off the new and the old site, but it’s FROM HELL to update. And I’d like the ability to make a blog entry for an upcoming event…

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    I’m Grinnin’

    Wow, I managed to implement that smiley project in one swell foop. 8) 😀 ="Very Happy" 🙂 ="Smile" 🙁 ="Sad" 😮 ="Surprised" 😯 ="Shocked" :confused: ="Confused" 8) ="Cool" 😆 ="Laughing" 😡 ="Mad" 😛 ="Razz" :blush: ="Embarassed" 😥 ="Crying or Very Sad" 👿 ="Evil or Very Mad" 😈 ="Twisted Evil" 🙄 ="Rolling Eyes" 😉 ="Wink" Powered by MT Smileys The instructions for doing it and an accompanying discussion thread are here. NOTE: There was a typo in the “Powered by” link – be sure to close the tag.

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    Next Exercise

    MTHacks’ MT Smileys This might be the next thing to tackle. Unlike other smileys packages I’ve looked at, it accomplishes things with includes and macros. Clickable, too. Hmm. However, I was hoping to use some square smileys that come in a range of colors that I ran across somewhere, so more thinking is needed.

  • The Never-Ending Bloga - The Road Goes Ever On: 3 Weeks in Britain

    Happy, Merry, Resolute New Year

    Another year, another milestone, another period of hapless casting about for something interesting to blog about. When faced with this problem, many of us turn to our stats pages for a little navel-gazing. And what better time than on New Year's Day? Just who are the robots, spiders, and visitors who drop by? Naturally, any good stats page includes information about connections from other sites. This is usually where the spam hits the fan – a lot of the links turn out to be for C-list sleb porn and for hosting services and info-harvesters. Now and then, though, there's an…

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    Only 362 Shopping Days!

    Just in case my sister needs ideas for next Christmas: she’s one of those people that starts shopping in January. I’ll have to decline the kind offer from the same site for their Bobblehead Jesus page linked to the Holy Moly site, though. I don’t think Father Ted would go for it. Happy Blogoversary To Me (and Rance) I got a couple of emails this week reminding me that Rance first started blogging about this time last year. As it happens, so did I, about 2 weeks earlier. And what with the holidays and shopping and screwing around last week…

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    Avatar Adventures

    Originally found at Learning Moveable Type, revisited via ***DDtB: Portrait Illustration Maker – Let’s make an original icon!! I actually find this “self-image” slightly disturbing, so I added the headset and optional cat to make it less so. It must be the “uncanny valley” thing people were talking about when comparing photo-realist “The Polar Express” to shiny-fantastic “The Incredibles.” As previously mentioned around here somewhere, it’s possible to set a gravatar that shows up when you comment on blogs that have enabled this feature. Choosing the “face” shown on the Internets is tricky – should one go with reality, or…

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    When The CSS Shadows Fall

    I screwed around trying to figure this out before, and then I settled for setting slightly differently colored grey borders and said “the hell widdit,” because the best method required me to wrap an extra div around the image tags. Then I realized my husband David was using the exact same method, and that it wasn’t such a big deal learning to deal with the div, as it were. So here goes. Will it work? I don’t know. UPDATE: Holy CRAP! It works! I used the same method I’d looked at before, David’s does pretty much the same thing but…