Next to that links would be in a different color, depleting your color cartridges and not giving you any info whatsoever. When you've printed an article, you usually have to go back to the online version to be able to open the links. There's a solution for that, and it's actually quite easy: using CSS to add the URL after the link. That's really easy to do with the content declaration, like this:

#content a:after {
	content: " (" attr(href) ") ";
	font-size: 80%;
}

Next to that I used display:none; to hide the menu, sidebar and comments, so you get just the article, in black text, on a white background.

Of course, feel free to have a look at (and copy) my print css!

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WordPress though is always served as XHTML, so if possible, it should send the proper MIME type. I wrote a small plugin that does that: XHTML MIME type plugin. It doesn't work on this blog yet because of some modifications I've done, but I'll try to get it working.

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If you use "old-style" CSS hacks, you're bound to end up in trouble once the IE team decides to fix yet another bug. Because that's what these CSS hacks do: they rely upon bugs in IE to make sure it parses the CSS the way YOU want it to. Conditional comments, on the other hand, rely on a built-in feature, provided to you by the IE developer team to work around your problems. Which one of these do you think has the most chance of surviving the coming years? Right.

Richard Rutter gives a very wise comment on Jens' post, basically agreeing with my opinion, but he says the following as well:

In terms of reliable use among teams, it is of course advisable to avoid CC or CSS hacks wherever possible, however as we all know life isn’t that simple. So where IE-specific workarounds are needed, our workflow is to put those rule in a separate style sheet called via CC and - most importantly - to document the normal style sheet where rules are being overwritten (as is normally the case).

Document those overrides, and do that all the time. If you do that, conditional comments are surely the best way to make sure your layout works in al browsers.

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So I implemented this colorpicker, you can check it out on the RSS viewer page of FeedRoll. It absolutely rocks!

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The problem was caused by the fact that replace only replaced items once, where they should be replaced multiple times. I don't know where Sherman will be using the script yet, once I do I'll of course tell you all about it!

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It would be so cool if Google, or any other SE for that matter, knew how to handle searches like that. The same could be done for events, resume's etc. Google would probably want to make it simpler, or make another page for it, since I can't see my mum typing in "class:vcard", but the idea is good, and I think something people should be working on.

Update 18-2-2010: It took them a while, but it's hear now: Google & Microformats.

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Using the GreaseMonkey functions GM_setValue and GM_getValue, I store the last date at which I checked for updates. If that date was more than 1 week ago, I make the script download a simple small "version.xml" file from my server, which would contain something like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<statisticsdetector>
  <version>110</version>
</statisticsdetector>

If that version is higher than the current version of the script, for instance, if you were using version 1 (100), it would be older than 1.1 (110) which is on the server, and you would get an unobtrusive popup to notify you that you should update. It will then store the date at which it checked, and won't check for another week again.

Of course I will provide the code to this once it's finished, but I was hoping some of you would have some ideas on this, and perhaps some good recommendations...

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Let me know if you have any more feature requests, bugs or other stuff, I'll be happy to fix them!

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I created a simple implementation on top of it, using PHP's DOMDocument extension to walk through the result, as using NUSoap or something like that felt like overkill, and it would be hard since the request isn't a SOAP request. It's quite simple, but it's also slow...

So, my wishlist for the next version of this API:

• a way to do a SOAP request instead of a HTTP request;
• faster, please, please W3C, make it faster;
• a way to specify what info i want, it would be cool to be able to just know if a site is valid or not.

If they fix that, I'm a happy camper :)

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What does this mean for you?

If you have any Internet Explorer hacks in your CSS file(s), these hacks might now backfire on you. Some hacks will still work, but the reason you had to use the hack might be gone, and the rendering might now be broken. Luckily enough, the IE team have given us a way of fixing this. It's called conditional comments, and though it's a tragedy if you like semantics, it's the preferred way of solving problems with rendering differences between IE versions.

6 steps to getting your site to look good in Internet Explorer 7

To get your site to work well in IE7, you'll have to take the following steps:

1. If you haven't done so yet, download and install IE7 RC1.
2. Open up your site in IE7 and test it. If it works, stop right there. You have coded well, and you need not do anything (for now). If it doesn't work, keep going, salvation lies within.
3. Move all the CSS hacks in your CSS file(s) to a specific file, e.g. ie6hacks.css, and use conditional comments to load this file only when IE6 or below is encountered.
4. Open your site in IE7 again. Chances are, you'll still have to apply some of your old hacks. Move these over from your ie6hacks.css file to a file called iehacks.css, and use conditional comments again to load this file whenever IE is encountered. Move over as much hacks as you need to get it to work, and keep testing in IE6 as well.
5. In some cases, you will need to add specific IE7 hacks, create a file ie7hacks.css for this, and repeat the process.
6. If all goes well and you have applied all your hacks, your site should now render fine in both versions of Internet Explorer.

If you've done the above and your site works now, you'll have to make sure to be up to date on the latest IE7 updates and what they fix. You now have an easy way to make changes if new versions of IE7 are released and other CSS bugs are fixed. Test your sites rendering regularly, and go over the steps again if you encounter a problem. Note that conditional comments allow you to check for minor versions as well, so you could even make sure your hacks are loaded for specific minor version in the future.

If you've done the above and can't get your site to work, contact me, I might be able to help you.

[tags]IE7, Internet Explorer, webdesign, css[/tags]

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I've added some other stuff as well, for instance: the blog now supports gravatars. I've removed the rel="nofollow" attribute with the dofollow plugin. The social bookmarking links are now hardcoded into the theme, works better for me than using a plugin for it.

The header pic still needs work, a friend of mine is working on that, i'll tell you feedreaders when it happens :).

Edit: i just added the advanced editing plugin and i love it :)

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By far the easiest reason to trust someone else to do the work is that they know what they are doing. Web design companies, the good ones at least, have experienced professionals who have designed many sites beforehand. If there are small errors or glitches that need to be fixed, they will know exactly what to do. If you need a small alteration done, they will have no problem doing so. On the other hand, most website owners are not the best in the field or creating a design for their site. Remember that while it is easy to create a basic design, those types of websites are not likely to attract the traffic that is needed to make a good profit. Paying someone else to create a good, solid design that you can work with is your best bet at having a site worth keeping.

Another good aspect of working with someone else is that you are able to bounce ides off of them and get their own creative input. You probably don’t know exactly how your website should look and there is no problem with that. Even big businesses hire consultants to get different and new ideas to think about. A professional web designer probably knows specifics on what works and what doesn’t with a website and he or she can help you build the best possible website possible. Having someone to discuss ideas with will not only help you in this aspect, but it will probably also get you thinking deeper and coming up with better ideas yourself.

It is important to remember that you have to put in money before making some. And instead of wasting time and money on classes and books and other sources towards trying to learn how to design websites yourself, you can just hire someone that is trustworthy and will do a good job. As a website owner you have a good deal of work to do besides web design. This includes creating content, advertising and boosting the page ranking of the site, and finding ways to get more traffic. Letting someone else focus on the web design allows you to spend more time on the areas you can do the best in.

Speed is another reason to go with web design companies. If you were designing the site yourself, chances are that other responsibilities and a lack of knowledge would cause the project to be delayed quite some time. With people who know what they are doing and experience to boot, you can get your website designed and ready within whatever reasonable deadline you set. Remember that constant delays will end up hurting a project and making it more and more unlikely that your dream will come to fruition in the end.

Overall, there are many reasons to choose professionals when it comes to web design. While the costs of hiring these people may seem like too much right now, there is a good chance that you will end up with exactly what you envisioned and more when the designers have had their say. And all the visitors who are lucky enough to stumble upon your site will be pleased with the sleek, professional design as well!

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[tags]conditional comments, html, css[/tags]

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