Pleaseplease please stop pasting into your Wordpress and Drupal sites straight from MS Word without converting to plain text first! There is nothing I love more than going to see a clients sites in use only to be blown away by hideous font action that has nothing to do with my theme styling. I check out the code view and what do you know? Tons superfluous in-line MS Word styling.
Sometimes if I am not busy I actually go in and clean it all up. Leading to strange questions like “why do my fonts keep changing?” I take that opportunity to re-introduce them (sometimes for the third or fourth time) to the paste as plain text function in their WYSIWYG editor. I also encourage them to write directly into their CMS’ and save as drafts or keep them un-published until ready to go live rather than writing entries in word and just pasting them in.
So please help your site stay pretty and always press that paste as plain text button BEFORE you paste from MS Word. It is one extra click but don’t be lazy.
Today is my little brother’s birthday. Poor kid works 2-10pm all week so we have little to no time for celebrating. He works on the weekends too so we can’t even get a proper “fade” going in honor of his old hide. Sometimes he’s a turd head and a half but I love him like none other and I’d be miserable without my younger sibling who is twice my size. Life is crap my man but… out of the shit comes the flower. Have the best one you can, that’s how it goes you know? The older you get the less awesome x-mas and b-days get… until of course you have kids and then go all emo when you get your first b-day scribble from the little one. Anyways don’t let work get you down. I have a small gift and some death for later tonight
Well it seemed pointless at first but it’s kind of a good idea. I now have streaming audio player on album pages and am working on linking to the zip files. I also unearthed a few old ep’s that never made it out of my computer from around 2006 and added them to my imeem page.
So in the recent weeks I have somewhat re-gained my standard of living but my old lady has no job so I still have no spending money but I still do have the urge to spend money. So like hunting for toys I hold on as long as I can with my fist clenched tightly around a small undisclosed amount. When I find a deal that is just too good “I strike like deadly python” (in thick russian accent)
So here are two deals that had me sweating. First is swell.com, they’re offering 22% off with the promo code: TWITTER22. Obviously 22% off is no big whoop but I’ve been stalking a flannel on their site for a few weeks now and last week it was 16% off so I figured might as well jump on it.
Insight Pervert Flannel
Second one I’m fighting is Mishka’s 75% off 2008 goods. They are clearing out the old to make room for the new and there are some deals to be had as well (assuming you slept on all the hot shit while it was still hot). My main focus will be these tacky snow washed jeans. They are usually $149 but are on for $37 and some change!!! Now that means one of two things either everybody slept (unlikely as the black ones sold okay) or these are really ugly in person. And while part of me wants to own $149 jeans the other part of me wants them to look awesome and worth every penny. These look so 80’s it kind of surpasses that trend-o surface level 80’s jock-age and heads into real life 80’s snow washed-ness. But for 40 clams I don’t think you could go too wrong, if anything cut em up and make them your “work” shorts for painting or hiking or whatever you goons do on your free time.
A friend sent me this link and it pretty much assured me I would have an awesome day today. This is so bad it reminds me of my old rappin’ days. Back when I lived at my parent’s house, had no job and had zero shame.
Lots of minor changes to the site over the weekend. I cleaned out even more extraneous css from my theme’s style sheet and I also pimped out my contact forms and my comment forms and their submit buttons. Sorry IE users your comment areas have ugly scroll bars waiting to scroll (it’s your fault for using a browser that’s dumb enough to do that)
In observance of Black History month I have made my El Creature lucha man an afro-american.
When creating snazzy search forms be sure to wrap the input field in a div and add the background image to the div while setting the input background to transparent with no border. Make the div the actual size of image and make the input field be the size of the image minus all padding added to center text in input field vertically.
If you don’t wrap the input field in a div and someone starts typing a search query longer than the background image, the background image will begin to scroll left as you type. If you type enough the background just scrolls right out of view. Code below should be enough to get you headed in the right direction, obviously make the background image url point to an image on your server.
Edit: I used a drupal tutorial I found on styling the submit button to create an all css submit button that doesn’t add a bunch of weird xy coordinates in the url after submitting like an input type=image and the button tags do(?). It basically just shifts the text out of the way and makes the text color same as background creating the illusion of a nice button. View tutorial here. That css code looked like this (below) and matches the form html above.
#searchform #searchsubmit {
border:none;
background: url(images/search.png) no-repeat left top;
cursor: pointer;
display:inline;
height:28px;
letter-spacing:100px;/*moves text out of way for ie*/
text-indent: -9999px;
width:32px;}
