hot air powers the point >>––> by Brent Logan
I discovered a few tools for extending CSS while reading the comments to Different Ways to Format CSS on CSS Tricks:
LESS — “LESS extends CSS with: variables, mixins, operations and nested rules. Best of all, LESS uses existing CSS syntax. This means you can rename your current .css files to .less and they’ll just work.” [...]
Mike Davidson describes his design signature in a recent post. I realized then how much I like his link styling.
Bold font weight
Dotted underline that becomes solid when hovered over
Gray text for visited links
Mike, I hope you consider this flattery instead of theft.
Blogan.net is turning off its styling for April 9, 2008. To learn why, visit the Annual Naked Day website.
Stripping courtesy of Aja’s CSS Naked Day plugin for WordPress blogs.
I received a private message on the K2 Support Forum asking how I did my Twitter Updates with a Twitter icon (example). Because others might be interested, here’s how I did it:
Download and install Twitter Tools in your plugins folder.
Go to Manage > Categories and create a category to be used only by these Twitter [...]
Lorelle maintains links to cheat sheets on HTML/XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, ASCII, and other acronymed topics. Incredibly useful!
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Hat tip: WP Bits.
The latest nightly (v378) of the K2 theme for WordPress (which blogan.net currently uses) changes the CSS selectors for a triple column layout from sidebar-dual to columns-three.
Blogan.net now uses the following CSS in its custom CSS file to display both sidebars display on the right:
Update: If you don’t see maps, it’s likely that I disabled the Google Maps Plugin. Google now offers much the same functionality without the slowdown on every page load, regardless whether there’s a map on the page. Also, the funny stuff needed for CSS files is now built into the latest versions of K2.
Finally, thanks [...]
I think I figured out how to put both sidebars on the right using the WordPress K2 theme. I tell all at the K2 support forum.
Updated: Please see my more recent post on this topic.
Please see my later post on this topic.
Thanks to the help on the kaytwo Google Code forum, the Googlemaps plugin now works with the K2 theme on blogan.net.
Update: Argh! It appears to work only with Firefox. Time for debugging…
Update 2: Okay, I lied. I didn’t delete the offending line, I had changed 100% to auto. [...]
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