I read a great Article on how to design websites so they’re easy to read and aesthetically pleasing yesterday on informationarchitects.jp. I was going to do a short post linking to the article and a few of their others I found especially good, however the article seems to have disappeared from their site! They obviously [...]
I began teaching myself Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in 2004 when I graduated from University and started work in website development. At the time it was difficult to find well written resources that thoroughly explained how various CSS techniques worked.
In the past few years, CSS adoption has increased dramatically. These days most high profile websites [...]
Last weekend I wrote about how to run IE6 and IE7 on the same computer. Now this technique was working very well until I needed to test some CSS modifications that I had made on the phuser interface in IE6. It was then I discovered the standalone version of IE6 has a problem with storing [...]
If you have a site with a narrow main content area like this blog then the IG Syntax Highliter plugin can break your layout in Internet Explorer 6. This problem can be easily solved by modfying the file syntax_hilite_css.css. Here is where this file is located:
your_blogs_dir/wp-content/plugins/ig_syntax_hilite/css/syntax_hilite_css.css
Below is the first change I've made aroud line 7, [...]
I was pretty pleased with the code syntax highlighting plugin I installed yesterday, just before I was about to finish work I got the Blog up in IE6 Arrrggghhh! IE6 redenders the width of the main content column smaller than Firefox and IE7, this causes the main content to be displayed below the content [...]
I have updated this blog to use my modified version of the Binary News wordpress theme, hope you like it. This will be an intermediate look for the blog until I have time to write my own CSS, I thought it would be a good idea to move away from the default wordpress theme.
Ultimately I [...]
As Phevans suggested there was a problem with the widths on the columns. I have modified the style.css file, click here to download it. I also noticed that the paragraph spacing is a bit odd (you get the same width between paragraphs that you get between lines) so I have modified that too.
To install this [...]