If you are at all like me, and i suspect someone is, you will use software on systems it wasn’t designed for. I use Irssi for chatting, on windows, due to its supereor functionality to many other clients. Unfortunately, a side effect of using software on systems it wasn’t designed for is having to use a series of workarounds to make it function. I had fixed most everything with Irssi, except for UTF-8 rendering. I fixed that today.
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This is a feature that is found in SMF, and a lot of MyBB users I know have asked about a similar feature. While this is not a simple preference pane value, it is easy to set up, and anyone should be able to do so.
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CSS3 includes a useful new property called Resize. This allows a developer to specify any block element in their site as resizeable, and the users of said site to be able to resize it, either by grippy handles in a corner, or by expanding the edges via cursors. Another useful trick of css is how to control these resizings, as you don’t want users to blow up the comment box to take over your site[1. A user's resize settings are NOT saved (as of current browser technology), and do not affect other users. Every time a page is reloaded, the elements return to their normal size, unless you implement some other method to remember the settings.], or shrink it down to where they don’t know where it is.
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Many advanced web designers know of this trick, but there doesn’t seem to be any documentation about it anywhere. It is a simple css trick to allow a user viewing a table with no cell borders to see what all lies in a row.
The trick is to make it so when a user hovers over a cell, the entire row changes some fundamental manner (background color, font size, font color, etc) to show that those cells are connected. While you could do this with Javascript, a better alternative is to use CSS[1. Using CSS when avalible to do what is usually done with Javascript is ALWAYS better, as it is faster and usually easier to debug]. When you have a well defined table, add this to the table’s css:
1 2 3 | tr:hover td { background: blue; } |
You don’t have to use a background to do the changing, you can use any entry you want there, i just used background for an example.
This will make it so when a user hovers over a row, all the cells in that row change their background colors.
This makes it easy for a user to identify elements, while still keeping tables stylish. If you have headers, you can do a similar trick, but you want to use a different hover color. To do that, replace the td portion with th
We all know what I’m talking about. Those plastic packages that new electronic goodies come in. Your new toy is there, behind a few millimeters of plastic, but out of reach. You will spend the next 5 minutes to an hour trying to crack the plastic, to use your toy. There has to be a better way.
We have all tried scissors, razors, even pizza cutters. Some people even buy a special package opener.
But there is a simple, better way. Use a can opener. Any rotary style can opener will work, as long as its manual. You could probably use an electric opener, but thats a little more unsafe. Cramp the knives of the opener down on the raised edge, or anywhere on the inside of the glue line, and turn away. Presto, a clean edge and your favorite gadget, all in a few seconds.
As always, Paradox designs is not responsible for any damage you may incur during this process, either to yourself, your can opener, or your packaged product.
Many sites use loads of <blockquote> and <code> tags (or other types of block text tags) to house text. Most of these are inserted in a post, be it a forum, blog, or other post. Problem is, if there is a load of content in these blocks, it can quickly take over your whole post, and give users a never ending scrollbar. With 2 css properties, you can change this, without adding load to your server.
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Many forums let you have a signature. Many forums also let you have an avatar. But many forums limit the amount of images you have in your signature, and i have yet to see a forum that lets you have more than one avatar. There is a simple way you can have a signature that rotates on page reloads, or even use it as an avatar. Read on to find out how. You will need PHP, apache, and some images.
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<p>The common way to install things on a server, be it web or otherwise, is to download the files to a local machine, then ftp each file up to the destination server. This is horribly inefficient, as you have to transfer the files 2 times, and your connection likely isnt too fast. There is a better way. If your webhost or server host is unix, and provides shell access. If this is the case, you can download the file, by sending commands to the server to download it. You will need a ssh client, on windows, you can use 815417267f76f6f460a4a61f9db75fdb%3Ca%20href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.putty.nl%2F%22%3EPuTTY%3C%2Fa%3E%2C%20a%20free%20ssh%20client.%20When%20you%20log%20into%20the%20server%2C%20you%20can%20download%20any%20file%20directly%20to%20your%20server%2C%20as%20long%20as%20you%20know%20the%20url%2C%20using%20the%20following%20command.%3C%2Fp%3E%0A%3C%2Fpre%3E0fbd1776e1ad22c59a7080d35c7fd4db <div class="alert">Paradox Designs is not responsible for any damage that is caused by the contents of the following post. By reading this post, you waive all liability against Paradox Designs. Basically, use this at your own risk.</div> <pre> curl ADDRESS OF FILE > NEWNAME.EXTENSION
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