Category: Technical

Writings, research, and software code. Everything from my technical sphere of life.

A better world, without IE

Looking closely at the CSS for the typography project…. The class example shows some good stuff (the css).

Here’s some CSS tips and points to remember:

  • To get IE to float properly, use a text-align: center in the body and then text-align: left/right/whatever where needed.
  • Set the min-width in the body to prevent failures in Netscape.
  • There’s a cool way to do the foot notes on this example. They are in a span that is hidden unless the mouse rolls over, at which point they appear visible. Really Cool, I think.
  • The example also uses a small flash movie to add some pull text to the site. Kind of a neat way to add some different fonts and colors to the page.
  • Try these fonts: font-family: “Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, verdana, lucida, sans-serif

Adding the calendar in WordPress

This is the info…
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_calendar

but to save you all from having to go to a different page, I shall explain it here.

You simply need to add a line of PHP code to the template. The code is:

< ?php get_calendar() ? >

The steps:
1. Go to the admin section of WordPress.
2. Presentation
3. Theme Editor
4. Sidebar
5. Find where this part of the code is:

< ?php wp _list_pages('title_li=< h2>Pages< /h2>' ); ? >
	< li>< h2>Archives< /h2>
		< ul>
		< ?php wp _get_archives('type=monthly'); ? >
		< /ul>
	< /li>

6. and add the calendar code before the wp_list_pages junk.
7. update the page and BANG! You’ve got a calendar.

*Be aware, I had to add some spaces in the above code so that it would show up properly.