I’m sandboxing PHP today (not to be confused with playing with the Sandbox theme from the fine folks over at plaintxt.org), working on learning the code so that I can start coding the stuff from scratch, instead of just being able to hack other people’s work. I’ve been wanting to do this for awhile now, [...]
Coding
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Bit by the Coding Bug
I’m getting my inner geek on – again. I spent the majority of my day today trying to figure out how to crosspost from WordPress to MySpace. I’d found a hack that looked like it had potential that I messed with for quite a while, but so far I’ve had no success in getting it to run, [...]
Resetting HTML
I’ve recently discovered the wonderfully marked-up Sandbox theme for WordPress and, in so doing, discovered the inspiration to build another theme for myself. But I also discovered rather quickly that there were a few minor problems with things not spreading out to the furthest edges of the browser. So I sought help and found that [...]
Code Geek
I am a WordPress god! Ok, not really, but I am enjoying the fact that I can now manipulate a WP theme pretty easily. It’s true – the more you use CSS, the more you play around with web design, the better you get at it.
I host a number of different websites for myself and for friends [...]
FoS Redesigned
I’ve just finished a complete site redesign on Flashes of Speculation, giving it what is, I hope, a unique and attractive layout.
I built this template – called Speculation (for obvious reasons) – from the ground up, stripping the necessary files down to the bare code to keep WordPress running and then builing everything back up around that. The result is [...]
Asides
If my previous aside had you a bit confused, I was celebrating my success at finally being able to get a new hack to work. I’ve often had cause to write a quick one-liner, but I hated wasted all that space because once I published it, the metadata takes up more space than does the [...]
Learning Style
I am very much a self-taught learner. My preferred learning style is to sit down with the subject at hand, a relevant task, a stack of reference manuals, and plenty of time to just hack my way through until I figure it out. I learn best through the process of trial and error, but I [...]
Working with Snippets
One of the things I have noticed over the past couple of days, as I work on tweaking various things here, is that I really don’t like working with the ‘em’ tag for formatting font size and line height. For one thing Firefox and Internet Explorer handle it differently, and you end up with two [...]