As a follow up for the recent restructuring and redesigning of the blog and my inability to recognize and assign colors aesthetically, I am announcing a competition to create a couple of graphic items for this blog. The graphics have to work with the present color schema and the size limitations mentioned below. No moving graphics please (no flash either). Here is what is expected (all three are required to win, they could be resized items of just one graphic): A favicon.ico A (800-1000) x (50-100) header image (width x height) with the name of the blog A 140 x 50 (width x height) small icon for distribution Here are the rules and prizes: All submissions are done through this blog and as comments on this post, if you cannot host the images, send me an email with your graphics and I will add the links and the file I […]

I added a modified version of Feed on Feeds which, for now, just tracks a few of my favourites. This section will need some more work, just a plug for now. PS: the news section can be accessed through the tab on top, right below the blog name header.

Two Ells >> Amazon Wishlist Updated: Missed this plugin. Provide your Amazon Wishlist ID and this Plugin for WordPress will spit out a random item from the WishList.

Eric’s Archived Thoughts: XFN 1.1 Released: Eric Meyer’s release for the new version of XFN. Look forward to more information and further implementation of this soon.

I ran into some trouble with the forms validation because I was using a javascript:document.formname.submit() which would require a name for the form. As it turns out, form name is deprecated in XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1. In other words <form name=”blah” … > is not valid in XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1. To get around this issue, I used <form id=”blah” … > and in my link I used javascript:document.forms[‘blah’].submit(); which validates correctly. Also, to get around the carriage return problem in input tags of forms (for input tags to validate correctly in XHTML 1.0 Strict and XHTML 1.1, they have to surrounded by <p> or h1 etc. ) I surrounded my inputs by (gasp) fieldsets and then hid it by styling the fieldset so I could get them all in one line. Im sure a lot of people know about these already, but this is for […]

A (hopefully) non-instrusive redesign to fix some complaints I have received about the blog. The categories are better described, the top navigation gets you to the important parts of the site and the ads have (again, hopefully) become less obtrusive. There is one more feature that I would like to add which is a news section. That is currently being worked on and should be online soon. I know I have made some more mistakes in trying to fix what was broken, so I would appreciate feedback.

Yahoo! News – Feedster Preps Paid RSS Links as Ads Expand: More ads on RSS feeds. Either pay to use Feedster or get ads with your feeds.

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