After half a decade of running off a custom, and highly experimental — read “bad” — content management system, I’ve finally get everything imported into the new system which will drive the site from now on.
Slowly but surely we’ll be seeing changes take place. While the initial interoperability leg-work is done, there’s still a lot of stylin’ and organisation to go before I’ll label this site complete.
I’m using Wordpress for the site now, which I’m sure the technical amongst you have heard of before. It’s the de-facto blogging software, but is a lot more powerful than it sounds. I’m confident it will be more than adequate for the goals I’ve got for the site.
So for the next few weeks things will be tweaked and improved. There’s a new theme coming slowly but surely, and any content that’s been missed out will be divided between here and ash.ms.
So lo begins the new era of Techtoucian Network. Subscribe to the new feed, and keep an eye out to see what’s happening.
March 27, 2008 – 11:00 am
Rascal Writes:
“I can’t remove the parent styling such as underline, colour, and strikethrough of the ins and del tags.”
You should be able to alter any CSS property, but in this case it’s likely being overridden by something you’ve set previously.
If you’ve got the web developer toolbar, press ctrl+shift+y, or whatever the macquivalent is and click the element in question; it’ll bring up all the styles applying to it. Using more accurate selectors you should be able to overcome this.
As a last resort if you can’t work it out, you can force a style using !important. For instance ins{border-bottom:none !important;} The side-effect is that all browsers rendering that instruction think it’s important, and there’s no telling what troubles that might cause in the long run.
I do hope this helps.
October 11, 2007 – 3:22 am
Frazzled at being bombarded with link text reading “here” all day, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to list what some of the worst offenders are. If there were ever a lesson in using meaningful link text on the web, here it is.
According to Google, the top sites linked using the overly descriptive text “here” are:
- Adobe Acrobat (Download)
- Mapquest (Maps)
- Apple Quicktime (Download)
- Real Player (Download)
- Sun Java (Download)
- Windows Media Player (Download)
- Winzip (Download)
- Multimap (Maps)
- Google Earth (Download)
- Yahoo Maps
From this we can conclude that people primarily use the link text “here” to link software downloads, maps, or directions. The incredibly sad thing is the amount of proprietary software that is being “here linked”, that is very likely also “required to view this site”.
October 9, 2007 – 12:41 pm
You all know I hate it already, but I just thought I’d reiterate my disdain for Facebook. It’s a ghetto of bad design choices with a pretty UI disguise slapped onto it.
Why would you lock a log-in button after it’s been clicked? Tell me that.
I just accidentally pressed enter while trying to log in, but cancelled the request before it could do anything. To actually log in, I had to reload the page, and enter all my details again because the form was disabled.
You can’t justify that kind of design choice. It just can’t be done. It’s mainstream implementation of stupid ideas like this place that makes stupid executive types want to copy all throughout the web.
