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Archive for April, 2004

12 Apr, 2004

Happy Birthday Scriptygoddess

Posted by: Jennifer In: Announcements

Happy Birthday Scriptygoddess – Two years old today. (Does this mean I've entered the "terrible two" stage?) 😉

08 Apr, 2004

CSS: Shortcuts

Posted by: Jennifer In: Lessons learned

(Still on old news for you CSS-pros. I'm wondering why YOU'RE not writing this blog. All the comments have been more helpful than my posts!! LOL!) Just wanted to jot these down so I could find them later: font-weight: bold; font-size: 10px; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; shortcut: font: bold 10px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin/padding shortcuts: margin: top# right# bottom# […]

07 Apr, 2004

DOM bookmarklet

Posted by: Jennifer In: Bookmarks

This will come in handy when trying to figure out how pages are constructed in CSS: a mouseover DOM bookmarklet [via Melissa] (Also from that same post on Melissa's site: Javascript Weblog)

07 Apr, 2004

CSS – Paste now, Understand later

Posted by: Jennifer In: Lessons learned

So I'm moving along in my CSS understanding. I (think) I get float, positioning. I even get the box model, and box model hack. I had a small site that used a tabled-design that is due to go live next week, so I decided I'd quickly convert it to CSS before the launch. (Yes, I […]

04 Apr, 2004

Script Idea: Comment rating system

Posted by: Jennifer In: Projects

This blog gets quite a number of comments. Some are just nice words of appreciation, others are kind of useful. Then there are some that are more valuable than the post itself! (For an example of this – check out my last few posts about CSS.) I really hope that if you've been reading this […]

02 Apr, 2004

Netscape 6 and Dreamweaver

Posted by: Jennifer In: Lessons learned

Just a note that maybe will save someone else the headache I had yesterday. If you're using Dreamweaver – and create a new HTML page – it automatically sets your doctype like this: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> This caused a problem with a table-based design I had done. Images placed inside […]

02 Apr, 2004

CSS: Swamp text for images

Posted by: Jennifer In: Bookmarks

So, I'm checking out CSS Zen Garden – I'm now using firefox because of all the cool extensions it has specifically the PNH Toolbar which lets outlines the blocks (ie. grids) on the page, as well as this one: Edit CSS which lets you see and EDIT the current page's CSS and redisplays your changes […]

01 Apr, 2004

Text Field Auto-Fill

Posted by: Jennifer In: Script snippet

A brief break from the eye-bleeding CSS talk. LOL! ;o) I needed a text field to be prefilled with text. If the user clicked on it, the text would clear out. If they "left" the text field (changed focus) without changing it – I needed it to revert back to the original text. If they […]


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