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Computing Posts from Across the Web: The Best of Problogger’s Group Writing Project.

August 28th, 2008


Recently Problogger announced a group writing project encouraging bloggers to write a post on any topic, focussing on giving it a killer title. I’ve been looking through the list of entries so far, and I wanted to share some of the top computing related posts.

  1. 5 Reasons You Should Use Plain Text To Save Your Data from Rarst. A short, but informative and convincing post on the benefits of using plain text to store your documents.
  2. But Mom, You Guys Look at Porn Sites Too from Data-Drop. An amusing post on the importance of cleaning your cache and browser history.
  3. Memo: Please Erase All Memories of Lost Memory from Tech Cult. Thoughts on the Britains current trend of regularly loosing our personal data.
  4. Geek-Speak and Legaleze – Fess Up! from GrowMap. A portrayal of how inexperienced users feel about the technical terms open source users find commonplace, and the amount of legal jargon found on the web.
  5. 9 Super Sexy Betas to Crave Right Now from Listropolis. A list of the hottest betas online right now.
  6. Best Blog Footers are Standalone Creations from Webomatik. Views on why great footers are important for websites, and a selection of strong examples.
  7. 9 Of The Best Ways To Present A Website To A Client from Just Creative Design. A selection of ideas from presenting mockups of websites to a less than tech-savvy client.

I hope you find some of those links useful. As for me, I entered my post 8 Reasons Why Every Computing Student Will Love Linux.

Today is the final day of the project, so I’ll update this list with the best of todays entries when it is published tomorrow. If you’ve entered, feel free to link to your post in the comments below.

New Theme Issues

July 28th, 2008


As you will hopefully have noticed, KCNB has recently undergone a change of themes.

Whilst I consider this one mostly complete (although I’m always open to suggestions and changes) there is still one particular issue I don’t know how to sort. It occurs on the index pages with lists of posts, and as far as I can tell only in Firefox. Each post extract is contained within a <div> element, which is in turn contained within a link to the correct page. For the most part the CSS functions correctly – when you move your mouse anywhere over the box, the background colour changes.

However, from time to time instead of this each piece of text becomes a link, as you can see in the image here.


 
The strangest thing is that this doesn’t even occur every time the page is loaded, reloading the page can cause the post to be displayed correctly. It also occurs more on certain posts than others, although I can’t find anything which makes them different.

I’m left wondering whether this might be more a problem with Firefox’s rendering the page, but I’d still like to fix it.

If you have any thoughts on how I could achieve this effect in a different way, I’d be happy to hear it. Also, if you’ve noticed other problems with this theme in modern browsers, please let me know here.

Think Pink

January 8th, 2008


So, opinions on the theme?
I built it from the design my website was meant to have and the default WordPress theme, which was far easier than I expected.

Pink isn’t normally my colour so this is a bit of a change, but at least it stands out.

Anyway…
Any bugs or glitches in your browser?
Parts you like?
Parts you don’t like?
Things you think I should tear out entirely?