Few changes on the website.  Updated to the newest Wordpress and I did it right this time.  Meaning I didn’t screw up any of the changes I had made customizing the theme, widgets I used.  The new version looks slicker on the dashboard and has some more user friendly aspects.  We are going to start using tags too for posts.  Feel free to give any post you have a tag or make a new one if it seems to fit and you think it will help people that might want to search for that to find your post again.  Not sure I’ll do away with categories all together in favor of only using tags.. but might.  We’ll see how it goes.

I wonder too if Pete is the only other person here besides me that has a Gravatar?  Cool little icon/avatar function used across the internet that you associate with an email address and can have show up on sites that use it (a lot.. I just got around to enabling it again here, it had been a while since I had them on).

Can be almost any picture you want.. a photo of yourself to any picture you want to show up to identify your comments to others on a great many websites.

You can upload it to the Gravatar website by browsing files on your computer and hitting the upload button, crop it right on the gravatar site too.  Any picture you find on the internet wether you save it to your computer and upload it or just tell it to use it from typing (or copy/pasting in) the address of it or make yourself can be used..  give it a shot.  Cool little thing you can do to throw yourself into the realm of the hip people.

Easy as pie bit to get browser to go back one page. This simple link will return browser to the last page it was on.. no matter where it was. Just like hitting the “back” browser button.

<a href="#" onClick="history.go(-1);return true;">Go Back One Page.</a>

Hot diggity dog! After pulling my hair out for the better part of two days trying to get my linked header image centered in Firefox, I’ve finally arrived at solution! I’m learning (just a little) CSS on the fly, trial and error style, just trying to get it to do what I want at the moment.. not to learn everything, so I’ve been pouring over others CSS and hints and tips, etc.

Everything works great in IE.. I could get the whole header image centered and blog info text removed and the whole image made into a link. It just wouldn’t work in Firefox.. only top portion of header graphic would be linked in Firefox and the whole image was shoved all the way to the left (thanks to the -500em shift trick described here (number four):

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 Have you seen those cool little icons in web browser address bars and next to saved bookmarks?  They are called “favicons” for “favorites icon”.  You won’t see them until you (re)bookmark a website that uses one.  Once bookmarked, a websites’ favicon will show up in the address bar and favorites/bookmarks menu.

Ever wonder how to get one of those for your website? It’s as easy as having the icon and adding this one line to your index page:

<link href="http://www.yoursitename.com/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" />

As for getting one made, it’s simple.  You just need to convert any picture into a 16×16 icon file.. easiest way is to do it free and online at http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/.  Once there choose the “browse button” to upload it from your computer or tell it where to find it online.  Follow simple instructions and download your image in it’s new .ico format.  If you need me to make up some graphic for you, for some reason, contact me and I’ll help out.  But you can use bitmap from paint if you have to!

You can use numerous icon creating software too, but that website is just so much faster and easier.  Did I mention free? =)

Bookmark this site and next time you restart your browser it will be there.