Archive for July, 2008

Quick CSS to hide disabled scroll bars in Internet Explorer

The scroll bars in Internet Explorer never go away. If they’re not needed, they just disable. To me this is an incorrect behavior, and it was really causing problems on a site I’m working on where I’m handling the scroll bars inside of a wrapper div anyway so I didn’t want two scroll [...]

BluDomain and difficulty getting indexed by Google

One of the photography forums I spend a lot of time on has a web site board where I tend to camp out. A good percentage of the photographers are using Flash template sites like BluDomain, FlashPalette, or PortfolioSitez which are nice, relatively inexpensive, and fairly easy to setup.
BluDomain goes a step farther [...]

JavaScript Error ‘expected identifier, string or number’ in IE

Sometimes you get those errors that just pick at you and you can’t seem to find a solution. It happened to me this morning when testing a JavaScript library I’m writing in IE7. FireFox worked without a hitch, but IE threw an ‘expected identifier, string or number’ error pointing to the last line [...]

How to insert tabs in a textarea

I’ve always found it annoying that tabs don’t, well, tab in textareas on HTML pages. To be fair, they do what they’re supposed to and move on to the next field. But for a web app I’m working on I needed a way for the tab key to insert a tab.

addthis_url [...]

WordPress 2.6 Available

That was a really quick turnaround from 2.5 to 2.6. I seems like I just got all of my WordPress sites updated to 2.5.1 and last night I logged in and saw a message that WordPress 2.6 was ready for download. Looks like I’ve found a project for today.
But since we’re here anyway, [...]