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Archives August 2005

Aug 31  05
Robert EllisWebjockey2 Comments

After spending a day a couple of weeks ago trying to figure out why my site wouldn’t work in IE when it worked in every other browser, all I can say is, “Amen!”
Via compooter.org

Stupid IE!

Aug 15  05
Robert EllisWebjockeyNo Comments

Textpattern, the venerable content management system used on this site, has finally been “officially” released. After several so-called “release candidates,” Dean Allen (Textpattern’s creator), decided to call this first “official” version, 4.0 (Textpattern has been widely used since 2001).
If you’re a blogger or would-be blogger, wait no longer. Head over to Textpattern.com and grab the […]

Textpattern 4.0 Released

Aug 08  05
Robert EllisSoftwareNo Comments

If you’re a web developer and want to take a quick look under the hood in Safari, check out WebDevAdditions. This SIMBL plug-in adds a number of options to the View menu in Safari. You can toggle style sheets or view them in a separate window, disable parts of a page (images, links, tables, styles, […]

Safari Plug-in: WebDavAdditions 1.0b11

Aug 05  05
Robert EllisTextpatternNo Comments

I’ve written about sources for Textpattern Templates elsewhere, but I just discovered Textgarden.org, a new site devoted to layouts for Textpattern. Whether or not you use a template for your blog, it’s useful to study templates to learn how they’re put together, especially when they include plugins you might want to use. Even if you […]

Textpattern Templates: Textgarden.org

Aug 04  05
Robert EllisBlogging2 Comments

Stephen Baker, over at BusinessWeek’s Blogspotting column
(”Where the worlds of business, media and blogs collide”), has posted an entry about reading blogs that are totally outside your traditional interests to spark your creativity.
Baker cites Dan Pink’s book, A Whole New Mind, which argues that creativity will be more important than ever in a […]

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