Jeremiah Hoyet

As of this morning, the theme I’ve been working on every now and then for the past few weeks has gone live. The theme is no where near finished, but it’s far enough along that I decided to throw it up on my personal blog this morning (I then spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to make IE 6 support PNG Alpha Transparency).

Stuff That Needs Fixin’

• Need to fix up the CSS for Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, and Safari.
• Need to inlcude styles for various elements and widgets.
• Need to make sure I don’t break and W3C rules in my CSS/XHTML (grrrr.)
• Add backwards compatibility for Wordpress installations < 2.5 (gravatar support, etc)
• Crazy code cleaning/organization

Positioning is Everything
Fixing your CSS for Internet Explorer can be a hassle. It’s just one more step to fine tuning your code before release, and it can be a cumbersome task. This site lists CSS bugs in modern browsers, and provides examples of the broken and “fixed” code.

kuler
I just recently discovered this website and I’ve fallen in love with it. It’s a bit like ColourLovers, but from the people at Adobe. Very good source of inspiration for a color scheme if you’re color-retarded like myself.

101 Color Resources for Web Designers
Related to the previous link, here’s a list of 101 color resources for web designers.

Dropline Nuovo Icons
Just for the hell of it, here’s a great set of icons.

I was browsing through the Wordpress.org support forum today when I came across a question that I thought was worthy of a blog post. The question was:

I am trying to change the titles of my sidebar widgets (i.e. “Pages,” “Recent comments,” “Meta,” etc) to images. Since my sidebar is widgetized, it seems this is more difficult than simply changing a few things in my sidebar.php document.

Does anyone have any tips?

It seems that with the implementation of widgets in later versions of Wordpress, users have had some trouble customizing their sidebar titles with images. In early versions of Wordpress, one could just go into the sidebar.php file and replace the titles of sidebar sections with an image using the good ol’ fashion HTML tag. This is no longer possible since widgets are dynamically added to the sidebar and are no longer located in the sidebar.php file.

Although I personally would rather use text to title sections on my sidebar, for the reduce loading times and various other reasons, using an image can allow you to use non-standard fonts and add a bit of flare to your blog. I’m going to show you have to achieve this using a bit of “detective work” and CSS.
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I’m migrating my blog from Wordpress.com to a new, self-hosted Wordpress blog. I’ve gotten most of the content imported without any problems, now I just need to get my plugins/theme situated on the new platform.

Are you using Twitter? I am. I can’t say that I’m completely addicted, but it’s nice to see what people are up to at any given time in the day. There is a problem with Twitter, not many people understand it or know about it (in respects to everyday folks). That’s why this video rocks:
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