scriptygoddess

Hello - my name is Amy - and I am a font snob. I spent a bit too long in professional print design for my own good, and learned the hard way to tell good fonts from bad ones.

When I saw some referers in my logs to txgraphics.net, I took one look at that header and fired off an email to the person who owned the site to find out what that font was.

It turns out that font’s name is Scriptina, and the designers knew what they were doing - the original scriptina comes with accented characters, and there is an ‘alternates’ scriptina font which has all of the common ligatures (fi, ff, tt, etc.). It’s available in both PC and Mac format.

The rest of the fonts are available at hardcovermedia.com/lab/, and they’re looking just as promising. They’re freeware, but it’s difficult to find freeware fonts of this quality - or quantity.

I’m just flabbergasted by these fonts - as someone whose name contains a non-alphanumeric character, I’m always tickled to death when I can actually use a font to display my name. I will now go back to my little corner and squeal happily for a few more minutes. Thank you.

I stumbled across opensourceCMS via MetaFilter, earlier this evening. Although it focuses completely, as its name suggests, Open Source content management systems, it does include access to working installations of pMachine, Nucleus and b2.

The site also includes installations of a number of groupware, forums, portal (slashdot-style) CMSs, and eLearning software.

If you are comparison shopping for a CMS, this is definitely a site to visit.

The post below brought up some questions about how to protect your site/images, etc. One request was to prevent right clicking. So here’s a script that does that: Disable Right Clicking. (Please note: that script is not “fool-proof” - there IS a fairly easy way around it). Also requested was a way to prevent images from being downloaded or linked to directly. I haven’t tried this out (I will tonight) but I found this script that may do the trick: php script that protects your images.

If it works, I’ll post the “demo” link here so you can see them in action. (If it doesn’t - then I’ll either yank this post or keep it up if there’s some useful commentary)

Update: Ok, it works, sort of. You won’t have people linking to your images directly, they can’t type the image path directly into their browser… BUT they CAN download the image if they get past the right-clicking thing…
Here’s a demo

Update 2: Jason came up with a better way (see comments of this post) Rather than disabling right clicking, make a table of one cell the same size as your image, with a 1 pix transparent gif, set to the same size as the image. place the image in the background of the cell by using the php script above: background=”chimage.php?image=file.gif”. Modify the chimage.php script (get the full code from the link above) as such: Look for this line: if (empty($referrer) || isreferrerokay( $referrer, $validprefixes )) { and change it to this: if (isreferrerokay( $referrer, $validprefixes )) {. Here’s a demo of that.

There’s already a few posts on here about htaccess - but here’s one more.
Blocking linking URLs

Essentially the link above says this:

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer “^http://www.google.com/” BadReferrer
order deny,allow
deny from env=BadReferrer

That will forward anyone linking to your site to a 403 access denied error page.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://www.google.com/
RewriteRule /* http://www.yoursite.com/restricted_url.html [R,L]

That will forward anyone linking to your site to the http://www.yoursite.com/restricted_url.html page.

If you are using MT2.6 or 2.61, you’ll want to go over to the MovableType page and upgrade to 2.62, as it is an urgent issue being fixed. If you are in 2.51 or lower, you can go ahead and upgrade to 2.62 without any problems.

There was a script request for comment systems. (I use MT, and GM before that, both of which have comment systems built in) but if you’re on blogger - you may be interested and in need of a comment service. A quick google search drummed these up:

fizbox
YACCS (which seems to be the popular one)

Anyone got anymore? or comment scripts that run on your own server?

Our very own Kristine is behind the very cool MT plugin directory. I think she’s posted the link before, but it’s recently moved to it’s own domain.

As seen on GeekGrrl’s site: Color blender. Put in two hexadecimal colors, and then how many shades in between those two you want, and it gives you the colors and the corresponding hexadecimal. Neat!

Jen also fixed an apparent bug with Safari and the MT bookmarklet. Get the code on her site.

Jen asked for a bookmarklet (that would work in Safari!) that would let you email a link of the webpage you were on. Here you go:

email link to this page

(It would be pretty easy to modify this to ask you for the email address you wanted to send it to - but I started to think that wouldn’t be neccessary. And even perhaps less useful - in case you were planning on grabbing the email from your address book or something…)

The one above does “prefill” the subject. If you’d rather it not do that, use this one:

email link to this page

Here’s one that will grab the name of the page and put it in the subject line:

email link to this page