Monthly Archives: September 2008

Random CSS tips and tricks

Posted Tuesday, September 16th, 2008 03:45 am GMT +8 | CSS |

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I wrote (as in handwritten) this a couple of weeks ago when I was having trouble sleeping, chances are you already know these things but, for the benefit of my rusty memory, I’ll still post it here. Besides, solving these problems took me hours of frustration, so I better chronicle it. :( There are times when list items occupy a huge space in IE even though you’re sure that you haven’t specified excessive paddings and margins to it. Setting the list item’s display value to inline-block will solve this (I’m a little surprised that IE 6 can interpret this value because I’ve always thought that it only knows block and inline, that’s how little I think of it). Inline doesn’t allow paddings and margins at the top and bottom area of the elements, however, it also means losing the width and layout of the element. In inline-block, we achieve just … Continue reading →

A peek at WordPress 2.7

Posted Friday, September 12th, 2008 03:47 am GMT +8 | Overview |

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I’ve had a copy of the WordPress nightly builds since WP 2.5 RC1 went out because I want to be one of the cool kids who’s “ahead of the pack”. But it just sat there, gathering dust. I never thought of updating it until Matt Mallunweg talked about WordPress 2.7 at WordCamp. I was so excited that I updated it once I got home and did not go around to testing and seeing the new features until someone in the mailing list commended the developers for the new comments thread feature. One update later and I’m testing the thing locally (yay!) and so far, I say that I like it. Documentation I think they’re planning to integrate the codex to a WP install, am I right? Either that or they’re too lazy to type in the correct link, I’d like to believe that it’s the former just because that would … Continue reading →

Presenting videos using WordPress

Posted Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 03:54 am GMT +8 | Tutorials |

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And without using a plugin. I thought of creating this post when I was on my way home from the recently concluded WordCamp Philippines. There was a woman who was in Karla Redor‘s talk who asked on how she can host the video in her own blog and use WordPress to file it for her. She can use a plugin that will let her upload the videos in her blog or do it the “harder” way. Something that I’m very fond of doing. Seriously, I’m the type of person who would only resort to using plugins if: I’m lazy at the time to think of another way without using a plugin My head is aching and I’m getting frustrated because it just won’t follow what I’m telling it. The reason is because I am not a developer and it’s really hard to be dependent on a plugin specially if that … Continue reading →