WordPress garbage code: MS Word is BAD.

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And not in  a good way. If your blog looked just fine until you published that last post, if your blog post suddenly makes looks weird and the blog no longer lays out properly,  if you suddenly find that you made the background of your post area dissapear, then you probably have a bad case of msword garbage code. let's peek at the source code for a healthy happy webpage: Healthy wordpress text should look like this: notice the occasional < p > or < br/ >? … [Read more...]

A Long List Of Free (and almost free) Stuff

This is part of my endless list of free stuff from the web.  Believe it or not, most of the graphics offered on the sites listed below are free. HOWEVER they are all offered under different licensing agreements- some require a link back to the designer's website, some required copyright credits, others require nothing at all. Make sure you read the licensing agreements carefully. Don't abuse an artist's intellectual property rights and they will keep sharing their work with … [Read more...]

IE CSS Problem Solving

The most common IE problems are: Margin Doubling! (Fix? Try Display:inline;) Layouts look different. Columns are wider or narrower between browsers or move down the page. this is usually caused by the content being larger than the space alloted for that div- resize the div or the content. specific info how to fix this: http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer/expandingboxbug.html ============ This is an excerpt of iBloom Studios' IE troubleshooting guide. The ones … [Read more...]