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JRGould

  • JS text-menu fade effect

    have you tried using jquery and the animate() method? off the top of my head the jquery would look something like this: $('a.fade').hover(function(){ $(this).animate({color: \"#COLOR1\"}, 500); } ,function(){ $(this).animate({c…
    Comment by JRGould March 2009 permalink
  • Background Issue

    You need to take the background COLOR off of #contentMain - wrap #contentLeft & #contnentRight in a new div and give that the background color plus a margin (left & right) to push it off of the shadow background. The bg color is as wide as t…
    Comment by JRGould March 2009 permalink
  • Background Issue

    wrap the right and left divs in a #wrap div - and give that the desired bkg color - make sure to add a margin to the outside of that so that you can see the background of #mainContent
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • Background Issue

    you haven't set a background color - your css reads: background: url(../images/theme-bg-content.jpg) no-repeat; you can specify a background color like this background:#f00 url(../images/theme-bg-content.jpg) no-repeat; the only problem is tha…
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • Wordpress still in distress.... Pleeeeese??

    It would be much easier to answer your question if you were to provide a link to the page that you're working on - My attention span is way too short to read through a hundred lines of css and try to understand what is going on... especially wi…
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • Floating a javascript Slideshow

    Glad I could help - I get a sick pleasure out of debugging... :p
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • Is custom font solutions advisable to use ?

    I wouldn't do it. I definitely wouldn't recommend it with the image-replacement techniques like flir or cufon because you lose the ability to select and interact with that text - and then I wouldn't do it with sifr because it would RE…
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • Styling select dropdowns with jQuery

    not jquery, but have a look at niceforms: http://www.emblematiq.com/projects/niceforms/
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • javascript turned off?

    This is also where the idea of "progressive enhancement" comes in. Basically you design your site/app/sandwich without js to the best of your ability and then add in the bells and whistles of js - we also do this with css, it's where …
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • Serch Ranking

    Chris just wrote an article about this: http://css-tricks.com/common-sense-seo-checklist/
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • Floating a javascript Slideshow

    For starters: there is no element. so get rid of that - then your css links in the header should be reversed if you want to be able to override css from slideshow.css with main-css.css - also, make sure you're taking into account the inline cs…
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • Newbie CSS troubleshooting

    This is... a plethora of questions - I'll just start throwing some advice, but I probably won't answer all of your questions. First thing to do would be to give your #main-content some layout, basically - give it width and height equal …
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink
  • Textarea + overflow:hidden + (Firefox or Opera) = wonkey!

    Yep,this doesn't seem to happen in any of the Windows browsers I've tested (IE6, IE7, FF3, Chrome), which is what leads me to believe it's a bug rather than just another lovely quirk. in Firefox and Opera on the mac I get scrollbars …
    Comment by JRGould February 2009 permalink