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Why you should love IE (or not) · CSS · / 29 02 2004 - 01:22

As a designer and using CSS, you certainly have become impressed with the ability IE has to handle CSS, right? Yeah, right … we wish!

Here are some of Internet Explorer for Windows’ biggest CSS deficiencies. You don’t find all of them listed because that would take up to much pages to list but it’s still handy.

New to MT? · CSS · Design / 21 02 2004 - 04:20

Are you wondering if you would use MovableType for your blog? And if you do, are you having a hard time to change the default templates it uses?

Here’s an article for new comers to MovableType that explains how to edit the style sheet templates.

New obscure IE bug? · CSS · / 14 02 2004 - 22:07

The other day when i was messing with my latest template, i encountered the famous doubled-margin bug in IE6. For those among you who never heard of it: it’s a bug in IE6 that is responsible for doubling the margin you set to push the float away from the holding container. The reason is simple: it’s IE6.

Now, to cure that bug, Steve Clason from Topdogstrategy came up with the following solution: placing {display: inline;} on the float.

But low and behold, that hack triggered another bug on my floated list: as soon as i used the hack, the padding between the li text and the bullets became extremely wide in IE6. Messing around with margin, padding, and/or different values didn’t seem to cure it, until i had the bright idea to use ‘list-style : outside;’ on the li. That did the trick in IE6.

Why? I have no clue, but once again, you’re messing with IE.

Also note that it seemed mandatory to put ‘list-style : outside;’ as the first declaration, otherwise it doesn’t work.

New template · CSS · / 14 02 2004 - 17:40

Today i added a new template called “Mogul”. It depends heavily on floats and during the making i encountered some bugs that i managed to fix.

You can sneak a preview and download the css, template and images in the “templates” section

Having trouble with nested lists? · CSS · / 13 02 2004 - 01:37

If you ever used nested lists, you know how tricky they can be and how easily it is to have the nesting order all messed up. In that case, you might look into the article Dan Cederholm, over at SimpleBits wrote. It gives you a nice example of the structure of a nested list and shows you how easy it is to style them.

Read it here.

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Web Standards Awards · CSS · / 11 02 2004 - 01:04

Web Standards Awards is up and running. This site has judges who, on a monthly basis, will give awards to the best CSS sites.

So, if you’re up for it, just put your site up for review.

Simiandesign · CSS · / 7 02 2004 - 15:52

Simiandesign is a nice clean blog. It’s higly informative and has a modern layout.

Something to check out !

CSS Layouts · CSS · / 6 02 2004 - 01:56

I know, there are several resources out there where you can find examples that deal with columns but i stumbled today into CSS Depot.
CSS Depot is a collection of CSS templates but with only the actual layout boxes. Each template is a valid XHTML 1 document, with the necessary CSS visible in the document.
According to CSS Depot, all of the layouts have been tested in the following browsers, and should render (nearly) the same in all:

Internet Explorer 5.5 (Windows)

Internet Explorer 6 (Windows)

Mozilla Firebird 0.7 (Windows)

Opera 7 (Windows)

Some music · CSS · / 5 02 2004 - 01:11

When i'm fiddling with my CSS my favourite song is "Woke Up This Morning", the theme song from "The Sopranos". Excellent show and excellent theme. It reflects how i often feel myself lately lol. I thought it would be nice to share the lyrics with you:
You woke up this morning Got yourself a gun,
Mama always said you'd be The Chosen One.
She said: You're one in a million You've got to burn to shine,
But you were born under a bad sign, With a blue moon in your eyes.
You woke up this morning All the love has gone,
Your Papa never told you About right and wrong.
But you're looking good, baby, I believe you're feeling fine, (shame about it),
Born under a bad sign With a blue moon in your eyes.
You woke up this morning The world turned upside down,
Thing's ain't been the same Since the Blues walked into town.
But you're one in a million You've got that shotgun shine.
Born under a bad sign, With a blue moon in your eyes.
When you woke up this morning everything you had was gone. By half past ten your head was going ding-dong.
Ringing like a bell from your head down to your toes, like a voice telling you there was something you should
know. Last night you were flying but today you're so low - ain't it times like these that make you wonder if
you'll ever know the meaning of things as they appear to the others; wives, mothers, fathers, sisters and
brothers. Don't you wish you didn't function, wish you didn't think beyond the next paycheck and the next little
drink' Well you do so make up your mind to go on, 'cos when you woke up this morning everything you had was gone.
When you woke up this morning, When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning, Mama said you'd be the Chosen One.
When you woke up this morning, When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning, You got yourself a gun.

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