Another day, another reason to laugh uncontrollably at how weird people are. There is a newsreader in the UK called Huw Edwards. He’s a slightly podgy Welsh bloke. He’s got a nice enough accent, but other than that he’s fairly unremarkable. Or is he?
Most regular Blogger users have probably seen this before, but here is a clever way to reformat the way that you see your Blogger archives dates. And I have to send out a special thanks to the man who runs the site, Phil Ringnalda, without whom I would have gone insane in my attempts to adapt one of the scripts he hosts…
Matt’s built a new skin for Interconnected – designed to be viewable on all kinds of platforms, browsers and screen resolutions.
Geek CSS question: When I’m writing all my blog entries I put in all the paragraph and line break tags by hand. I feel (for some reason) that this makes things much more adaptable. Except of course that I’m evidently wrong since it presents several formatting problems with things like permalinks.
The first problem is that by definition the permalinks cannot be ‘inline’. They have to be placed outside the paragraph tags that I carefully put in each post. Which means that they have to occupy a separate paragraph. In order to get the current effect, I’ve built in a process whereby Blogger constructs a table around each entry, and I use the first table cell to house the permalink.
But I’m working on converting plasticbag.org to pure CSS layout and this is presenting some problems. If anyone has any ideas about how I might achieve the effect that I currently have on the site in pure CSS (or just how to fake an inline link), then I’d really appreciate your comments…
This won’t mean anything to anyone outside the United Kingdom, but if on a Saturday evening you get frustrated by Ant and Dec and their band of merry troubadours, then you be aware that popidiot.com is still available…
It may be everywhere, but it’s kind of cool…
The quizzes that do the rounds of weblogs – I must confess I’m not immune to their charms. But I don’t normally link to them – I kind of think that they’re cheap content. There’s no opinion expressed, everyone has seen them fairly swiftly (so there’s no real ‘you must see this’ value) and – well – most of them aren’t really that good. However, having said all of that, this one tickled me pink…
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You have a genius intellect and an awesome sense of humor. You can sarcastically put someone in their place without batting an eye. Your only problems seem to be that you have trouble acknowledging your true feelings and you may use your humor as a defense to hide what you are really feeling. But, your godliness overpowers any insignificant flaws you may have. Even if you tend to pass gas during very inconvenient moments. Take The “Which Kevin Smith Male Are You?” Quiz!!
I wish I could take sole credit for this, but I can’t. As part of my last job at emap – where I was running TCN, I also designed (and co-designed) a couple of sites. The first one, Morning After TV was launched a while back – but now the other one (which I only worked out basic structure, and did the early design treatments for) has now launched at J17.com. That’s right, I’ve been working for Just Seventeen. How cool is that. Major design kudos goes to Denise Wilton, who’s responsible for giving my initial designs a substantial face-lift, and huge tech wiggles go to Cal for building, well, all of it…
Via Ev (who’s pumping out a resolute ‘no comment’ on the whole Premium Blogger thing) comes this neat and well assembled Flash-based clock. I’m always extremely impressed when people manage to incorporate a non-computery aesthetic into sites – it’s not as easy as it seems.