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  • renaming the "home" tab in wp3

    How are you currently displaying the menu? Is it a custom menu? Or an auto-generated list of pages in the form of a widget? If it's the former, you can go to Appearance -> Menu -> click on "Home" and change the display text. …
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • iinclude-page read on styling (Wordpress)

    I'm not sure about that plugin... but you can change the read more text a few ways. The easiest of which is: the_content("Read more, mo fo!"); read more here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • Pages or Categories Pt. II

    Have you confirmed the category id for the desired category? Are you going to include your header in that template? How about the footer? Is this a child theme? Why is there an extra line at the top of the template before the Template Name? Wha…
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • WordPress 3 Post Thumbnails/Featured Image

    add this: add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' ); to your functions.php. That will enable a dialog in your post (right hand side by default) to attach a featured thumbnail.
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • Animate Text-decoration?

    You have a couple of options. 1. You can use a border, and animate it's width or it's opacity. 2. I'm not positive this will work, but you could try a css3 animation. It would only work in FF/Safari/Chrome, though. I think your be…
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • Dynamically creating anchor links

    You might check out Ben "Cowboy" Alman. He's way smarter than I am... http://benalman.com/projects/jquery-replacetext-plugin/
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • The proper way to code this

    Do you want them fixed to the corners? or will the page scroll? Do you have an example? You could use div's if there'll be more than one per box. Doesn't really matter. Just position each into their respective corner. You can…
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • Search form label alignment problem

    You can try getting rid of the wrapping the label. You don't need that. Then, try floating the label left. You'll probably have to add some margin to get it into place.
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • Rounded corners - Non-CSS3 & no-images

    If you're not using CSS, images, or background images, there's nothing else you can use... except maybe a magic wand... Use CSS, and employ the beauty of CSS3PIE.com for IE.
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • How to do this

    You'll definitely want to use PHP. Basically, you setup the common pieces of the site in PHP files. Then, include each piece on your new page... 1 file might be "header.php" and include something like: My new haircut …
    Comment by doobie August 2010 permalink
  • next_post_link based on custom field value

    You can see an example here: http://dev.jacobdubail.com/portfolio/sh ... m-organics The links are at the bottom of the post. The posts in that category are in the left sidebar. The whited out posts don't have the custom field key/value pair.…
    Comment by doobie July 2010 permalink
  • Display WP custom field Key & Value

    Thanks Chris! That's just what I was looking for.
    Comment by doobie July 2010 permalink
  • Feedback Wanted for New Portfolio Site

    Hi Darren, Thanks so much for the feedback. That's really helpful... and encouraging! Funny thing is: I am using the 960 grid system... The homepage was a little out of whack, though. Just tightened everything up a bit to get a little mor…
    Comment by doobie June 2010 permalink
  • Slot Machine Tabs HELP

    tab linking problem is a z-index issue with the .current class.
    Comment by doobie May 2010 permalink
  • placement trouble, need help fast.

    Luckily for you, mdrd, it's still today... have you: 1. Included Your Scripts? 2. Set Up Your CSS? 3. Attached Roundabout? If you had a live example for me, I'd be happy to take a look for you. -J
    Comment by doobie May 2010 permalink
  • Chris' Dynamic Site bug

    Not sure what you're referring to, noah. Could we get a few links up in here? Would be happy to help out if I knew exactly what you were after.
    Comment by doobie May 2010 permalink
  • Slot Machine Tabs HELP

    Yo Expo, I snagged the code off of your page (only the slot machine tabs code, nothing else), and tossed it into a blank page. Grabbed the .js from Chris and uploaded it. Works fine. No jumping. The problem is most likely a JS problem with your …
    Comment by doobie May 2010 permalink
  • Text "Inner" Shadow

    Matt, Are you referring to the text, or the background of the apple nav-bar? If you're looking for the text shadow, checkout this link: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/CSS/text-shadow You'll have to tweak it till you get it how you lik…
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • Independent widths?

    You might try using some jQuery for this. As it's more of a progressive-enhancement that the design doesn't depend upon, you can get away with it. You'll detect the length of the post, then set a class to that div, specifically, tha…
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • Grayscale website with jQuery

    what about this service: http://graybit.com/main.php it does it for you.
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • Jquery Hover Image Not background

    web2works, It looks like the .js is adding the _on to the image src properly. Interestingly enough, when you manually add it in FireBug, the image loads (although it looks to me like the same exact image). But when you hover, it leaves the area b…
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • JQuery Conflict with Link Selection and Menu Initiation

    Hi b-rad, Not sure if you noticed, but you're loading jQuery multiple times. This causes all kinds of problems. It's being called once in your header and again in the body. Check out this article http://digwp.com/2009/06/including-jque…
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • Cross Browser Issue

    Does your logo happen to be encoded in CMYK? If so, try encoding it in RGB. You should also be able to change the css back to the relative path, at that point. -Jacob
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • Alternative to "text-indent:-9999px"?

    "keithdevon" said:Jacob, I owe you one buddy! Such a simple solution...I'm an idiot. I only recently figured this one out. Took me weeks... The logo on my wordpress site wouldn't work for the longest time... maybe I'm an …
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • IE top: position not working!

    Oh yeah, I noticed that the body element on the homepage still has a margin-left set to 15px which causes a slight shift between pages... -Jacob
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • IE top: position not working!

    If you use Google Chat, PM me for my email address. Glad I could help! -Jacob
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • IE top: position not working!

    remove the width and margin from the body. also, your search div should have a set width on it, then position it accordingly. Do you use FireBug? It's an addon for FireFox that makes life better... -Jacob
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • IE top: position not working!

    No problem. Glad I could help. If you have any other questions, feel free to hit me up. I'm sure you'll figure it out, though. Definitely go back and check out some of Chris' earlier screencasts. They'll get you up to speed.…
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • IE top: position not working!

    Instead of setting a width and margin: 0 auto; on the body, wrap all of the contents inside the body in a with an id like #pageWrap or #wrapper or whatever. Then set the width of this div to whatever, looks like you're using 1024px. Then set…
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink
  • IE top: position not working!

    Chris outlines the how-to/reasons-to implement IE only stylesheets here: http://css-tricks.com/how-to-create-an-ie-only-stylesheet/ I'll look at the page jump right now. -Jacob
    Comment by doobie April 2010 permalink