Archive for December, 2008
Seems like Google has made it popular to change the logo of a website for holidays. My question is how many of y’all do the same, and more importantly do your members like it? Over on my photography forum I switched out the default logo with a winter themed one for Christmas. It’s scheduled to [...]
December 28th, 2008 | Posted in Design, SMF, Tips & Tricks | No Comments
We’ve all been there. You have a great idea for a web site and go out and grab up a domain before someone else can get to it. 5 years later the domain still has a parking page and you haven’t done anything other than pay GoDaddy 9 bucks on every anniversary of your great [...]
December 21st, 2008 | Posted in Unfiled | No Comments
Turns out WordPress tries to make your posts look a little better by swapping out all normal quotes with smart quotes. That’s great for typography, but really bad when you’re posting source code like I often do on here. Trying to run pasted code with smart quotes in it will bring PHP down to its [...]
December 15th, 2008 | Posted in Tips & Tricks, Web Links, WordPress | No Comments
Found a quick little JavaScript trick that lets you edit page content from within FireFox. Copy and paste the following into your address bar and press enter. javascript:document.body.contentEditable=’true’; document.designMode=’on’; void 0 Everything on the page becomes editable. Sure, it doesn’t affect the file on server. But once you’re done you can save the resulting file [...]
December 7th, 2008 | Posted in Coding, Tips & Tricks, Web Links | No Comments
Found a great site over at StopForumSpam.com. Over the past few weeks I’ve been checking registrations on a couple of my forums against their database. What I’ve found is that most of the registrations have been spammers and they’ve gotten the axe. But after deleting 15-20 per day I wanted a little more automated solution.
December 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Unfiled | 6 Comments