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Posted by: Stuart

I enjoy working with HTML, XHTML, CSS and designers as a web developer. At home I enjoy listening to music, playing music, reading and food.

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Posted on: 1 August 2004

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I’ve now installed Kitten’s “Comment HiLites” plugin. I haven’t settled on the colour yet. I’ll see how it goes but it seems to be working OK.

I’ve also found that you can add your RSS feed to your ShortStat resources list. This is great cuz now you can see how many people are hitting your feed. For my own part I’ve only put it on the “posts” feed cuz I figure that anyone who has linked to the “comments” feed will probably have linked to both and I don’t want to show double hits when in truth it’s a single enquiry. If you’re a WP user and haven’t messed with your feeds before it’s a doddle. Just add the “include_once” statement that you use for ShortStat on your other pages into the wp-rss2.php file just above the “xml version=” line. Yes that’s it! If you don’t use WP it may not be quite so easy as the extra code needs to be in a PHP file. If you need to see how it is done for non-WP or non-php feed files visit The Watchmaker Project. You could also take a look at Matthews post relating to ShortStat’s layout to see how I adjusted my layout.

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Thomasso
OK, I was thinking about a news-feed-reader and started looking at all the difrent ones out there. I looked at one you have, Dave's, and downloaded one called Zfeeder, which both seem to work on your site, and you access through your webpage. This is the part about readme files that "tick me off" as both programs say they are easy to install, and get working. Great, but in Dave's case, what do you do with it? I found no sample pages to look at and tried to "add" the PHP code to my index page, and I got errors up the ying-yang. Stuart, could you explain more about what to do with these news readers? ....how to use them? etc...? (I took it off because I could not load my page.)

Ya, I'm acting like a newbie here... again. :)
1 August 2004, 12:33
Stuart
I presume that by "David's" you mean the one I'm using. It's quite a novel useage actually. David reckons he hasn't seen it used full-page before. Anyway I think it really needs an email so keep your eyes open. :shock:
1 August 2004, 15:38
Thomasso
Thanks Stuart, Ya, The Email. :think:
1 August 2004, 23:54
Thomasso
Hey, Stuart, reagarding those images we were talking about? I did my first re-write of a hack for the Word-Press IMG tage found above the comment text-area when loading. Remeber how you were saying that it would look nicer if the thumbnail image would have text-wrap and positioned nicely within the post? Well I re-did some of the Java-Script for the hack and posted it on the WP thread:

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Let me know if, in your opinoin, this would make life easer loading images and putting them inside a post?
3 August 2004, 03:39
Stuart
I don't know Tom. Have you tried using it? My initial observations are that I use "float" not "align" and I can specify a bottom margin and then either a left or a right margin depending on which side I'm placing the graphic. This stops the graphic "indenting" into the paragraph which I think "vspace" and "hspace" would do. Just my immediate thoughts. How long you been messing with Java then? :think:
3 August 2004, 04:53
Thomasso
Yes, I have used on the last 5 posts. I know Java better than I know PHP. I would never call myself a expert, or a good java programer. I just know simple aplications and took some courses when I first went back to college. It was a neat little hack, very simple and easy to use. I see your point about using "float" positioning the image. That makes alot of sense. And it might be very posible incorporating the IMG tag and "float" together. But, that is for someone else to figure out. My site is down right now. They say they'll have their system up by 6:00pm tonight, 2:00am your time? They'll be finished thier upgrades by then. We are in the middle of a long weekend so they choosen this time to do all of this
3 August 2004, 05:23
Root
Stu if you start messing with margins in floats it will bork unless you are very careful.
3 August 2004, 06:18
Stuart
Yes but in this case the margins are attached to the image and I use full code not shorthand. As far as I know, and I'm sure someone would tell me, I've not had a problem with it.
3 August 2004, 07:53
Thomasso
Stuart, isn't ("Align="whatever" "H" and "V" space) classifide as floats also? I'm debating whether I should combine this hack I'm using for the IMG tage, (keychance.js) with the CSS or just leave it as HTML on the post? I noticed from reading the various threads on the topic, that seems to be the general thinking on posting images that are not routine. :think:

You say that you've put the HTML on the post then position the image using CSS? Does it make that much of a diffrence, say in speed, XHTML validation, etc...:think:

Oh, I like the comment highliter, looks very nice with this colour-scheme you have :dance:
4 August 2004, 10:32
Stuart
I don't know if they count as floats but the main problem is with V-space and H-space because I only want a border on the text sides of the graphic. I think with V and H you would "indent" the graphic. As I said all I have to do is add the "div" class and the image, write my text then close the "div" and I'm done. Just as you would if it were an HTML page. I know it validates fine cuz I use it extensivly elsewhere.
5 August 2004, 02:06
Thomasso
I See. You know, it would be very easy to rewrite the Java-Script to say that.

Yes, I can see your point about the indentation, especaily if you were doing a table layout with floating graphics.

What are your thoughts on the pop-up window for the image?
5 August 2004, 04:25
Stuart
Well I can type it in a few seconds. I'm not sure it's worth the effort. There are no tables involved. I'll check your popup. I haven't clicked on a graphic yet.
5 August 2004, 04:44

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