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    Drupal Views Boomarks vs 'Promoted to frontpage'

    To add granularity to the items in a given view that should be shown on a given list, you can either use:

    Adjusting element transparency in IE and Firefox

    Standards compliant browsers (FF, Safari etc) and IE browsers require different CSS selector definitions to implement transparency. Here is what is necessary to set the following element to 50% transparency.

    div#header
        {
            opacity: 0.5;
            filter: alpha(opacity = 50);
        }

    Why I stray from Web Standards ...

    Being a staunch supporter of Web Standards, I am often at the forefront of implementing new formats and standards as documented by the W3C. Occasionally, I have no option but to compromise Web Standards. In my current situation, I am attempting to start using the element in place of . IE7 and a number of its predecessors are preventing me because they will not display

    Website content above the fold?

    Always trying to keep web content above the fold is a former-truth that has proven resilient, and is becoming a liability to web-page design today. It has been proven time and again that if your site has an intuitive and interesting design that will capture and keep the attention of your visitors, your visitors will scroll below the fold. Click-tale has recordings supporting this, and that prove the point that more that up to 75% of website users scroll below the fold, and many of them way down to the bottom of the page.

    Apple Safari is benefiting Internet Explorer?

    The introduction of Safari for Windows might appear to be an attempt to eat away Microsoft Internet Explorer's market-share. On second thought though, most of the people that use Internet Explorer do so because it is the already available Web browser who will not care to replace IE with Safari if they have not already moved to Safari. It is therefore going to each away market-share from Firefox because it is those standards conscious users who have shunned IE that will be outgoing enough to try Safari...

    Reusable CSS: make your life easier

    I have come to find that while using CSS for layout, all hierarchical content is represented as UL or OL lists, and others items are enclosed in DIV or SPAN regions or left as orphan elements. CSS layout based on the above mark-up structure will have some repetitive definitions. For instance, all horizontal menus my require CSS to turn an unordered list into display: inline; layout, set the list-style-type: none; This means that you can make your life easier by creating a set of CSS definitions that can be the basis of all your layout and presentation.

    Vet what you recommend to avoid diluting your brand: Beanstalk and FeedsApp

    I really like, trust and use Beanstalk. However, I may have had some blind trust when I decided to run and buy FeedsApp (mentioned in this post). I am disappointed and have requested a refund from Apple for the following reasons:

    Does not support generic feeds

    Means that I have to pay just to use this on Beanstalk (do not use any of the other supported sources). Worse, that means that I have to clutter my mac and RAM with multiple apps that do portions of the same thing.

    Shortest Frequency is 15 minutes

    Rendering all the images in a selected directory using PHP - not just listing the index

    Trying to browser a very big list of image files with serial names to if a directory that I just recovered using #scalpel for #ubuntu contains the files that I deleted http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=170460 has a nice solution. NB: to display display files, I found it easier to create an .htaccess file and add the line:

    Options +Indexes

    Beanstalk Version Control finally revamping Deployments

    I have been using Beanstalk SVN (by WILDBIT) for quite a while (going two years now) and I cannot emphasize enough how good the service is. Simply, since it is reliable, and it is not hosted by me means that when my server collapses (which is when one really needs to browse the archives), I can rest assured that my version-control system is isolated from the disaster.

    Are these deficiencies in SVN 'move' or inbuilt protections?

    I am reading about doing SVN copy, move and merge from the commandline so as to better master all the switches and understand exactly what my GUI client is doing, and allow me to work just as well with and without a GUI client. I see a comment in the Redbook manual - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.branchmerge.advanced.html#svn.bra...

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