Recent WordPress issues

I experienced not being able to login to 2 of my blogs last week. I could view all the posts and access everything outside of the admin. I then checked another blog in a subdomain and I was able to gain access to the admin area. Strange! I hadn’t changed anything. I did upgrade one site to 2.5.1 but the other site was still on 2.3.3. Then I decided to look at error logs for clues. I saw errors but they have been there...

Word hover over and popup image

Over the past week or so, I’ve learned a little about making an image popup on mousing over a word. I found a couple of sites that helped me. One is called Pure CSS Popups. The other is Creating mouseover effects. Both were helpful in helping me understand and coming up with a solution. As usual, IE and FF behave differently. Positioning is a problem, but can be gotten around with some work and perhaps re-design of...

minishowcase update

I started working on 2 updates to this gallery script. I wanted to be able to add a new image to new galleries that are uploaded. And I wanted to expand my captions mod to include the default image viewing. This is taking me longer than I expected. The js I tried didn’t work in FF but did in IE. I them found a cross platform js script called sarissa which I will try. I still need to add some way of getting the date...

Standards and the real world

I’ve been thinking a lot about the web page design class I’m teaching this past week. My students seem to have trouble with html and code to develop a web page. They all seem to not want to know or learn about this but rather use a tool like FrontPage or Dreamweaver to drag and drop a web page. And you really shouldn’t have to if the tools that you use can make your web pages standards-compliant. I belong...

W3C compliant

I wanted to make my forum be W3C compliant and pass the HTML validation. I found 2 problems that I corrected. One was with my Flashclocks extension for Vanilla. I was using the embed tag to show an swf file. This was not valid and I replaced it with the object tag. The code for embedding should be: [object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="extensions/flashclocks/clock_large.swf" width="165" height="165"] [param...

Getting caught up

It’s seems that whatever I do, I put myself further behind in many other things. I seem to have been somewhat preoccupied with helping others on the support forums that I have ignored what I need to do. This is a common occurrence for all of us. There just isn’t enough time to do everything. You really have to set your priorities. I’ve tried to help someone recently integrate the Vanilla forum into WP. It...