Edwebs Blab

Min-height IE 6 hack

edwebs — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:20:48 +0000

Always useful for making empty pages look right when designing a new site (avoiding the content area being only as high as the content within it), min-height has always worked will in Firefox but been completely ignored by IE.

Behold, a wonderful IE min-height hack: www.dustindiaz.com/min-height-fast-hack

Wordpress themes for developing new templates

edwebs — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:07:19 +0000

Instead of having to strip down the default Wordpress theme, with all its custom classes, simply install one of the following templates:

I’d personally recommend the Starkers theme, as it is completely naked of styling, and therefore perfect for quickly developing your own custom template. Thematic, whilst clinically designed, still carries a number of custom classes that will need to be removed.

The advantage these templates have over the Classic Wordpress theme, is that they incorporate the functionality of sidebar widgets that did not exist when the original theme was developed.

Create ICO icons and favicon

edwebs — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:34:20 +0000

Use http://www.icoconverter.com/ to convert a 16×16 image to icon.

Here is the code to add to website.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />

JavaScript Breadcrumb Links

edwebs — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:32:13 +0000

http://www.mindpalette.com/tutorials/breadcrumbs_JS/index.php

Slimbox 2

edwebs — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:27:24 +0000

A Jquery version of lightbox. You can edit the CSS to change colours including background colour.

www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox2

Accordion Content script

edwebs — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:18:36 +0000

smooth bullets and menus
www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ddaccordion.htm

Sticky footer

edwebs — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:19:26 +0000

Good, cross browser method of fixing a footer to the bottom of the browser window: www.cssstickyfooter.com

Tiny Scroller — simple div scroll box

edwebs — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:20:56 +0000

Very nice: TinyScroller JavaScript Scrollable Div

Wordpress e-Commerce

edwebs — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:40:19 +0000

Great plug-in that allows online shops to be built through a Wordpress CMS: WordPress e-Commerce Plug-in. A good example of the script in action can be seen here: icondock.com

Easy Slider

edwebs — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:41:01 +0000

CSS Globe’s Easyslider 1.7 is a great example of a easy-to-implement, compliant and customisable sliding gallery script.