Category Archives: CSS

Lightbox plugin added to College News

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Craig

I added the bas_lightbox plugin (alt link) to the Textpattern instance that runs College News. The plugin implements Lightbox 2 and allows you to use it within articles to create image galleries or enlarge-able images. Here’s the first story to … Continue reading →

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A Second Chance mini-site published

Posted on June 10, 2005 by Craig

I published a very-quickly-produced mini-site for the film A Second Chance this afternoon. It uses the templating concepts from mezzoblue that I mentioned recently. It also borrows some CSS techniques that I explored on some recent personal projects.

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Making an external link icon

Posted on June 3, 2005 by Craig

I’ve been working this week (mostly) on new content that I’ll blog about when it is released, but didn’t want to let a week go by, even a short one, without a blog entry. Have you noticed the little “external … Continue reading →

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Adding a one-column body class to a two-column UF CSS template

Posted on May 27, 2005 by Craig

After reading in And all that (CSS) Malarkey yesterday about using multiple class attributes on the body tag to create multiple page layouts within a style sheet, I thought I’d give it a try today as a good “Friday” task. … Continue reading →

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Adding UF template elements to a WordPress template

Posted on May 24, 2005 by Craig

Dissatisfied with my earlier attempt at making this blog look like it’s UF-templated and have it look and work “right” like a blog, I started over and like the new result a lot better. In the old template, I had … Continue reading →

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New communigator starts going up

Posted on May 17, 2005 by Craig

The Spring 2005 issue of communigator hit the street a couple of weeks ago. The files hit my desk last week and the first stories hit the Web this afternoon. I have spoken with the Editor and we are going … Continue reading →

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Formatting lists, ugh!

Posted on May 16, 2005 by Craig

Nothing seems to cause me to want to pull my hair out more than formatting lists. These seem to be the canonical online references: Taming Lists by Mark Newhouse (from A List Apart) Consistent List Indentation by Eric Meyer (from … Continue reading →

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Design (or coding) notes for Orange & Blue

Posted on May 11, 2005 by Craig

The slide show effect on the Orange & Blue front page uses the Fade Images JavaScript technique. The images do a fade transition in IE, but just flip in Firefox. It will probably eventually be replaced this Summer by a … Continue reading →

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