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  • Opinions on the CSS-Tricks new layout

    I am a little disappointed with the new redesign also. the first thing that caught my attention was the Navigation bar, which is a good thing although I don't think that it looks as good as it used too. that being said, I do love the roll ove…
    Comment by mshort August 2010 permalink
  • custom fields as dates

    i have figured out a solution to it. rather than using the wordpress custom fields like I had been, i looked for another module to do it with. I found Pods. which works amazingly well and does exactly what I was after. Pods is abit like the Flu…
    Comment by mshort April 2010 permalink
  • Annoying little validation bug

    Thanks for that. and even though the element isn't around the other elements they will all be clickable as the link?
    Comment by mshort December 2009 permalink
  • Certificate 4 in Information Technology (websites)

    Yeah no kidding. you would think they'd update their courses to teach the relevant trends.
    Comment by mshort December 2009 permalink
  • Feedback - good or bad please

    I don't mind it, but I think the side bar is looking a tad empty. the "feedback" and "follow us" buttons, I am not a big fan of, I would put them up at the top of the side bar, and not give them a fixed position personally.…
    Comment by mshort September 2009 permalink
  • (this) selector

    thanks everyone, what I wanted it for was so that when you mouse over the li it only effected the span.description element in that li. not all of the others as well :-) and thanks Dave :-) your idea worked like a charm
    Comment by mshort July 2009 permalink
  • UL indent

    yeah, unfortunately both the 0 padding and 0 margin didn't affect it
    Comment by mshort November 2008 permalink
  • forms

    Thanks cotton thats exactly what I needed :-)
    Comment by mshort October 2008 permalink
  • new personal site design

    i've increased the size of the text, as for adding vines and such into the main conent, I would like too but i am not sure how I would do it, since the image there is just a repeating image, so anything i had to repeat down the page and not lo…
    Comment by mshort September 2008 permalink
  • new personal site design

    "HJ05" said: 3. Because your links in the side panel are already on one line each consider adding display:block to the css to make them easier to click. 8. Is the fixed length really necessary. It can annoy some users to see that the page…
    Comment by mshort September 2008 permalink
  • jquery question

    awesome, thanks chris :-)
    Comment by mshort September 2008 permalink
  • Site Almost Complete

    Looking good james. I think it'd look a little better if the nav bar's background spanned as wade as the header, but other than that it looks fantastic :-)
    Comment by mshort September 2008 permalink
  • firefox 2 problem

    errr.. yeah firefox 3 i meant :-P my brain must really be skrewed up today i'm confusing IE and FF 0.o
    Comment by mshort August 2008 permalink
  • firefox 2 problem

    ah, I don't have Opera, didn't think to check it. but yeah.. I'm not sure what i can do to fix it, because if i change the CSS to work in those browsers its just going to mess it up in firefox 7 and IE
    Comment by mshort August 2008 permalink
  • overflow-y / overflow-x

    thanks guys. safari doesn't seem to be working with it, so is there a way to work around that? anyone know> thanks
    Comment by mshort August 2008 permalink
  • my website is finally done

    hey, thanks for the comment. the white space is where the blog is going, so there will be less white space there
    Comment by mshort August 2008 permalink
  • image roll overs

    thanks for that Edwin.. I knew I'd seen a way to do it somewhere I just couldn't remember what it was :-)
    Comment by mshort August 2008 permalink
  • Negative Padding and Margins

    Just one other question on this topic. does anyone know if there is any way to make this work in IE6 and earlier? currently the element only shows up in its correct position in Firefox, safari and IE7
    Comment by mshort July 2008 permalink
  • Negative Padding and Margins

    thanks it made sense :-)
    Comment by mshort July 2008 permalink
  • Negative Padding and Margins

    "box" said:Negative margins are usually fine, IE6 will often throw up its usual idiosyncrasies with its box-model quirks. Negative Padding however is not allowed so don't use it. There's a decent box-model article here http://ww…
    Comment by mshort July 2008 permalink
  • grrr IE Buggs

    thanks for that :-)
    Comment by mshort June 2008 permalink