I decided to better the “Simple Myspace” userstyle for Firefox users to remove all ads on most of the regular pages that people actually use on myspace since Simple Myspace only did some brief minimalist work. I removed ads from the home page, profiles, pictures, bulletins, schools (I actually readded this function that was removed in Simple Myspace version), searches, messaging and blogs.

I did not bother with things like forums, videos, comedy etc, but can adjust for those sites as needed.

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This past weekend hosted an event called the Addy Awards. I don’t know much about these rewards, except that we always enter in a bunch of sites into them every year. I believe they are like the grammy’s for advertising, and in our line of business, more specifically with websites. (I tried looking up stuff on their website but ironically it’s not done very well and 2008 winners aren’t listed yet).

Anyway, we only had one site win this year, but it was a site I put together (note: I didn’t design it, just coded/maintained it). Not only did it win a GOLD Addy for best Website, but it won one of 5 JUDGES awards, out of like 330 entries or something. To quote one of the videos talking about the site: “The CSS was perfect” (CSS being my main job at the company).

Talk about fucking awesome. It felt really good to have everyone congratulating me (and me making wise-cracks about it all week). Honestly coders are pretty much always behind the curtains and rarely recognized for their work I’ve noticed. So while trying to be humble about it, I’m still pretty much ecstatic about the whole thing.

The site that won the award is: Epic Theatre Ensemble (but honestly the CSS isn’t all that great since I was in a time crunch to put it together. But I’m going to be cleaning it up. Or maybe I’ve reached the point where I’m being too anal).

And if you want to check out the video, you can: Download

They said I could order copies of the awards if I wanted, since the awards we got are to be kept at work, but they are $60 each. I decided I could live with just having a digital picture of them

So the buzz around the web development world is all about IE7’s automatic release this month. I don’t know what day exactly it’s going to happen, but this massive update to the IE platform is going to fubar a lot of websites. Mostly because every IE user is going to be automatically forced to update into IE7 (pending user approval of course), and IE7 renders websites a lot different than IE6 or it’s previous versions.

A lot of people using CSS for the skeletal structure on their websites, especially those who have used IE hacks, are going to suffer the most since IE7 does not support the IE * html hack anymore. Some have attempted to bypass this issue by using Firefox body > html hacks instead, which is fine I guess. But I prefer the method of using a separate IE specific stylesheet:


<!–[if IE]>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”ie.css”>
< ![endif]–>

Regardless, it’d be a good idea for all web designers/developers to go ahead and get rid of your IE hacks before the Y2K (laf) of the web world goes into effect. Whether you decide to upgrade to IE7 or not, the majority of your users that use IE most likely will.

For those of you that use Wordpress, the Blog Joint has compiled a list of the top 20 Wordpress Plugins, some of which I’ve never even heard of (and plan to implement). Definitely worth checking out.

I just signed up for a Vox account. I also have a Myspace account, and Livejournal account. Plus the main focus of everything Crys related, my domain here at tawodi.org.

That’s 4 different places with the exact. same. purpose.

People think I’m crazy, but there is a method to my madness. Even if it’s slowly driving me insane.

My domain is all for me. It’s where I store everything, it’s where I post everything. I can make it look however I want, give access to certain posts to whoever I want, it’s the big tom tom of the entire basket of blogging goodies.

Livejournal is for both internet and online friends to keep track of my posts. Everyone (including myself) checks their “friends” pages all the time, so it’s easier to keep track of what all your friends have posted on one convenient page. Rather than having to go to each persons journal or domain individually. So I essentially post there for the convenience of my friends.

Myspace is purely for my real friends to either 1. find me (I found a lot of people I haven’t seen since I was 16) or 2. they aren’t very internet savvy and just heard about this cool thing called myspace, so they signed up and it’s all they know how to use. The second one actually seems to be quite true…sadly enough. It’s the hip thing for the non-hip computer illiterate folks. No offense

Vox……….I have no clue. I’m just hopping on the bandwagon like I did with my gmail account I’ll never use but have anyway just in case.

I just get annoyed sometimes having to keep up with all these new programs and software. I suppose it’s good for a web developer to keep track of these things and familiarize with them. You’d be surprised to find out out that some companies, even medical facilities, are starting to request using things like Wordpress and such for their sites now. In fact the first site I ever had to program at my new job uses Wordpress for their RSS feeds. It’s a good thing I decided to switch to it last year from Movable Type

What sucks the most is having to post all of my entries individually to each individual one. There’s a plugin for Wordpress that should automatically post to my Livejournal for me, but I haven’t been able to get it to fully work yet. It’d be nice if someone would develop one for Myspace and Vox too, so all I have to do is post to my domain.

I’m looking for an example of someone who has used CSS to create a pop-up page. Everything I google just shows how to make pop-ups on the same page, but I’m talking old school pop-ups where it opens an entirely new page. Has anyone seen anything like this before using CSS?

It’s taken me a bit to remember how I set up the permalink structure on this journal. I’ve been trying to set it up correctly for another site, and completely forgot how to make it work So now that I’ve figured it out, I don’t want to forget again, so I’m making a post about it for the future.

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So I wanted to use the Enthusiast script for part of my Witches Weekly site, but I wanted to use the same template that I use in Wordpress. In order to do that I had to use the following:

For the Header:
<?php
require(’wp-config.php’);
include_once(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/header.php’);
?>

For the Footer:
<?php
include_once(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/footer.php’);
?>