Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Links in a floated div not clickable in Firefox or Safari?

Check that the adjacent div has a width and is also floated.  Otherwise it seems to "overlay" the div disabling the anchor tags.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Pointy edges at the tips of lines in Photoshop

How to get the elegant, faded, pointy tips on your Photoshop lines?
  • Draw a path with the Pen Tool;
  • Right click on it in the Paths window;
  • Choose "Stroke Path" and (this is important) click "Simulate Pressure".
If you don't like the way it looks, fool around with the brush currently selected.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Dreamweaver Site Manager

The message "The root folder you have chosen contains the folder for [arbitrary other site] ...",  probably indicates the "Local Site Folder" of the site noted was filled in with just the Drive C:\ (for example).

If you say OK, every other site you manipulate will give this message:   "The root folder you have chosen us inside the site [the first one].

Perfectly understandable, but not too bright.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Problem with multiple paragraphs floating around large image

Ran into a situation again where my p tags do not wrap around a large floated left (or right) image.  I've seen a few questions asked online, but no satisfactory answers.  Planting the image within the first p tag or keeping it out doesn't help; specifying clear:none on the image, on the paragraphs doesn't help.  Specifying display:inline helps a bit too much; the paragraphs stops being paragraphs.  Enough with css solutions.

Using a br tag(s) (single or multiple) looks different under various browsers.

Oddly, what works is defining a class of divs that act like the p tags.  These wrap fine.  Weird.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Bluehost changes how to signin to Mail Clients

Had trouble finding how to check mail through old squirrelmail.  Still there, just need to click on the little "More" dropdown under the Actions column. I think this was different anyway.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Photoshop CS3 Auto Align Tutorial


Straight to the point, no intro, no time wasted. Great technique explained without fuss.