2012 Year of the Dragon Clip Art
Here's a little dragon I whipped up for a New Year's email I sent out to folks. It was in Illustrator. Nothing special, but it was fun. Feel free to use it in accordance with the Creative Common License I use on this site (see sidebar). Read more [...]
A Fix for when InDesign Split Columns Doesn't Work
Thanks to David at InDesign Secrets I've verified a little bug with InDesign's Split Columns feature. Apparently if you try to split columns at the end of a story it just won't work.
The solution is easy enough though:
Add an extra empty paragraph to the end of the story.
Split the column as you would normally.
Delete the extra empty paragraph.
I can't explain why it is that you need the extra paragraph there to make the column split, or why you can delete it immediately afterwards with no Read more [...]
Running IE 6 and IE 7
IE 7 is far far better at following the standards set for web browsers, but that doesn't help for IE 6. But that isn't the problem, the problem is that IE 7 copies over IE 6. It can install IE 5, IE 5.5, IE 6, or any combination thereof. Read more [...]
Using <object> in Internet Explorer
Also, by limiting what refreshes it cuts down on page load and makes it so the main page never has the refresh blink (that second of white before things load in the browser). The key is the classid: classid="clsid:25336920-03F9-11CF-8FD0-00AA00686F13" To learn more about using the element and making it work in IE read Brad Wrights discussion of the technique. Read more [...]
A Temporary Fix to Keep WordPress XHTML Friendly
Today I discovered two bugs in wordpress that keep it from being valid xhtml. Fortunately a kind person offered a fix right in the comments of the bug report. Read more [...]
