.htaccess and spam

You know, while I sit here, working on a new theme to put up on the site so people can download it, and waiting for my hair to dry, I just remembered one of the best things I have to offer people. My .htaccess file. I’ve developed my .htaccess file over the last few years, and haven’t had to touch it in about 2 years, because it’s so effective in controlling spam. I won’t...

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Sticky Footer

So, I’ve been trying for a while to figure out the whole “Holy Grail” (as it’s been called) of layouts: the 3 column layout with header and “sticky footer” that works cross-browser. A List Apart has one, but it relies on having a huge bottom padding, and then reversing that with a huge negative margin. Me, I’m chick who likes to use negative margins as sparingly as possible – meaning only when...

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Disjointed rollovers

So I’m back from my little hiatus (I’m sure you missed me! hahaha), and had a new challenge posed to me. Image swaps are cool for rollover effects, but what about disjointed rollovers? Can they be accomplished with no javascript? I’m here to tell you “hell, yeah!” And I will also show you

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