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  • Removing Indent on Child Posts

    Thanks for taking such a close look -- the basic structure is taken from a tut Jeff Starr put up on Digging Into WordPress a while back -- the wrap on the 2nd and 3rd columns seemed a bit odd to me as well, but I'm not gonna argue with Jeff Sta…
    Comment by ccc630 May 2012 permalink
  • critique my wordpress site

    I think there's real potential there, and I like the top nav a lot -- the concern that jumps out at me is the branding at the top. It seems awfully small, sort of lost in that very large header, and the text is so close in color to the textur…
    Comment by ccc630 April 2012 permalink
  • CSS-Tricks Comments -- Service?

    Thanks, Doc! Appreciate it.
    Comment by ccc630 April 2012 permalink
  • WP single, page, ...

    Try diggingintowordpress.com. Curated by Chris Coyier and Jeff Starr.
    Comment by ccc630 April 2012 permalink
  • Take a look

    Just saw this -- with all due respect, if this is a serious website, it needs a ground-up redesign. There's virtually nothing here to work with; garish colors, random, disconnected elements, and broken links.
    Comment by ccc630 April 2012 permalink
  • Best up to date Web programming books?

    Sitepoint also usually produces very useful, up-to-date books.
    Comment by ccc630 March 2012 permalink
  • Problem with background-image (resolved)

    Thanks for the help, folks -- don't know why I was stuck on using background-image instead of background -- feel a bit foolish now, as I really did know that -- thanks again!
    Comment by ccc630 March 2012 permalink
  • Blocking free email accounts for online form

    Glad you were able to get it running -- I was a teacher for quite a few years, so I know first-hand how important a service like this is (sadly enough).
    Comment by ccc630 March 2012 permalink
  • Blocking free email accounts for online form

    This almost seems too easy, but could you adapt the code shown here?
    Comment by ccc630 March 2012 permalink
  • Private area WP

    I'll second the recommendation for the Members plugin -- I used it to achieve exactly what you're looking for on a client site.
    Comment by ccc630 March 2012 permalink
  • Blocking free email accounts for online form

    Gotcha; makes perfect sense. I'm assuming, then, that students would send the messages using a school-based email address (me@mydistrict.edu or somesuch). I'm definitely not a wizard when it comes to regular expressions, but I found this…
    Comment by ccc630 March 2012 permalink
  • Blocking free email accounts for online form

    If I can ask, what is the purpose of blocking those email hosts? You've listed three very popular domains which could lead to excluding a very large number of potential users. There may be an entirely legitimate reason to do so; I'm just…
    Comment by ccc630 March 2012 permalink
  • css-tricks.com layout

    It's done through media queries -- @ChrisCoyier did a write-up when he rolled out the new design, you might be able to find it in the archives.
    Comment by ccc630 March 2012 permalink
  • Hello my name is....

    Great idea for a thread! Hey everyone, Name's Chris Clark. Live about 50 miles south of Seattle in a tiny place you won't have heard of. :) Taught elementary school for fifteen years, and decided about three years ago to make my web d…
    Comment by ccc630 March 2012 permalink
  • how can i protect my template from thiefs ...?

    In the Sitepoint book 'Build Your own Wicked Wordpress Themes', Jeffrey Way -- who ran ThemeForest for two years -- says: "Piracy is simply a cost that must be factored into the equation...While it does help to send takedown notices t…
    Comment by ccc630 February 2012 permalink
  • How to make compatibale a css design for all the browsers?

    There are significant differences in the methods each browser employs to interpret and display CSS, especially Internet Explorer -- it's probably best to google this question and read as many tutorials as you can, as it can be a somewhat comple…
    Comment by ccc630 February 2012 permalink
  • PDF viewer

    Urp. Sorry for the ugly formatting there.
    Comment by ccc630 February 2012 permalink
  • PDF viewer

    I used the http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/document-links-widget/">Document Links Widget plugin on a couple client sites. It doesn't offer pdf viewing, but makes the downloadable part quite easy.
    Comment by ccc630 February 2012 permalink
  • Wordpress database with PHP framework

    You can modify and customize the WP admin panel itself -- google it and you'll find plenty of examples.
    Comment by ccc630 February 2012 permalink
  • Has anyone heard of PLUJO?

    Never heard of it -- if you do wind up going with plujo I'd be interested to know about cost, pros and cons, etc. The website feels like an awfully hard sell job to me.
    Comment by ccc630 February 2012 permalink
  • The wordpress loop

    As a side-bar, there's an excellent plugin called reveal-ids-for-wp-admin. Does exactly what it says: shows IDs for posts, pages, categories, etc. Can be very, very helpful if you're building a lot of custom loops.
    Comment by ccc630 February 2012 permalink
  • Please critique my website

    Hi Leonard, A couple thoughts. First, I think the gray color scheme gives the site too washed-out a feel and somehow makes it feel dated (not sure what combo of elements is doing it, but the design feels very dated to me). Second, I would recomme…
    Comment by ccc630 September 2011 permalink
  • Where can I learn how to achieve this effect?

    Looks like they're using the canvas element, which I won't pretend to understand -- however, the most recent post on css-tricks.com happens to cover the canvas element. :)
    Comment by ccc630 June 2011 permalink
  • First WordPress Theme: Please Critique

    *sigh* Only 15...man I'm getting old! Like the colors, like the title font. A couple thoughts/suggestions: -- the 'jd french' in your header could probably be larger. -- just having a link to your most recent post, rather than the…
    Comment by ccc630 June 2011 permalink
  • Hand code a blog?

    It sounds like WP is definitely the way to go, at least for the blog -- no sense having to manually update, archive, etc., when WP is set up for exactly those tasks. If you don't want the whole site to be WP, my understanding is that you can i…
    Comment by ccc630 June 2011 permalink
  • My new website is finally up...

    Trey, another thought...one theme I think I've picked up from your responses here is that you have a design background but the technical details (html/css, etc) are holding you up. May I suggest that you try creating some mock-ups, either with…
    Comment by ccc630 June 2011 permalink
  • APPLE or NORMAL notebook

    @markthema3 -- lol! How could I forget Linux??? Okay, let's make it an even 25% for each category, and I'll up the over/under to 80. :)
    Comment by ccc630 June 2011 permalink
  • My new website is finally up...

    @treyrust, in reading through this thread, I think the commentary can be distilled as follows: originality is an outstanding goal. Powerful, authentic originality, however, comes from a profound understanding of the conventions of one's mediu…
    Comment by ccc630 June 2011 permalink
  • APPLE or NORMAL notebook

    As TheDoc says, it definitely comes down to personal preference. I was a Windows user for many, many years before switching to Mac -- and I would never go back. I personally do find apps on Mac OS easier to use -- even Microsoft Office. Doesn…
    Comment by ccc630 June 2011 permalink
  • Website Feedback

    1st WP theme??? Wow. I know you've expressed frustration with WP a couple times in your question threads, but man...you rocked it. Clean, easy nav, nice colors,...my only disappointment is that I did NOT see the little fish pointer...otherwi…
    Comment by ccc630 June 2011 permalink