By Ryan on September 28, 2009
I was wondering recently how to get select elements with multiple selectors. Why would you want to select elements this way?
As a hypothetical example, imagine you read my post about highlighting author comments with Hybrid from a week or so ago. What if you wanted to be more precise with your selectors, so you could [...]
Posted in Design, Tips | Tagged CSS, elements, multiple, selector
By Ryan on May 9, 2009
It’s been about a month since I last published a blog post but during that time I haven’t been sitting idle. My other website, which is private file hosting, has had a front-page redesign. Check out the main page of mntbd.com.
What you’ll see there is my pretty neat javascript clock! It is something I made [...]
Posted in Design, Javascript | Tagged CSS, Design, mntbd, Mootools, yui
By Ryan on April 8, 2009
I found out early this morning that it is CSS Naked day! What does that mean? It means that we turn off all of our stylesheets for 48 hours (as it is to show internationaly).
Why do it anyway? It is to promote good standards for writing (x)html and using the web standards. Dustian Diaz has [...]
Posted in Design | Tagged CSS, day, holiday, naked
By Ryan on April 7, 2009
My friend asked me today, as apart of one his assignments for his Computer-tech class, what would I say if I had to pick the five most important aspects of web design. Well, I wasn’t sure at first, but after some thought, I came up with the five things I would say are the core [...]
Posted in Design | Tagged aspects, core, CSS, Design, web
By Ryan on September 28, 2008
Alexa, the traffic gather and web research giant, uses a pretty neat trick on their traffic ranking pages when hiding domains.
First of all, I don’t know why they want to hide the domain, but possibly because some spiders might parse out the url anyway and since Alexa would then be linking to some insignificant website, [...]
Posted in Abstract | Tagged Alexa, CSS, domain, obscure, SEO
By Ryan on August 16, 2008
I think Plurk could be risking it. Apparently, they now allow everyone, from sign up, to edit the CSS in their profiles. That’s wonderful for the honest people in the world. However it’s not a good thing for those more malicious.
In Plurk’s Styling Tutorial, they show users how to edit their CSS and even recommends [...]
Posted in Vulnerability | Tagged CSS, Javascript, plurk, xss