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Marketers != <> NE Designers != <> NE Developers

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I deal with this on a daily basis and it drives me crazy. Marketers thinking they are designers, or developers who think they are designers.

Admittedly there are exceptions but honestly, not that many.

All the individuals and groups need to work together and they can collaborate, but at the end of the day, unless you are a one person operation, leverage the expertise of those other roles! You have to trust they know what they are doing because they probably know more about their ere area than you.

Ending rant before the veins in my temples explode.

Pseudo Class :first-child

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I have been doing some work and came into an issue with the li:first-child line in my css not working. Worked in FireFox but not in IE 7.0. I did another site and it did work so I had to see what the difference was.

After much searching and head scratching and head banging, I found it was my html version declaration.

Since I started with a standard page in DW, it was set to:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”>

But needs to be:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”
“http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd”>

The extra line “http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd” fixed the issue for IE7. Go here for detailed information on HTML DOCTYPES.

P.S. If you have hot-linking deactivated on your server, and you add a new site but don’t update your allowed site list, you may find yourself asking wtf is going on for a few minutes… or an hour.

Gravatar Enabled

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I have set up the comments to display your gravatar. What is a gravatar? It is an avatar that is housed in a central location and is tied to your email address.

So, when you post a comment and enter in an email address that has an associated Gravatar, your avatar will be displayed.

If you don’t have a gravatar, go get one at www.gravatar.com. Also, when you go to other blogs that have gravatars enabled, your avatar will show up there.

TIP: When you crop your image – if you want to use the full image, then crop the entire thing but be careful as the crop tool may cover the upload button. So, when you click the button, you are actually resenting the crop tool and the crop properties will become null and you will get a lovely black square as your avatar. So, if you crop to display the entire image, click near the very bottom of the upload button, or use the one on top. I think there is one there as well.

PS – Gravatar.com seems to be stuck in an endless loop.

Neato.

WordPress – Exclude Categories on Index Displaying 1 Post

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I found that with my particular theme I created, I wanted to control what topics showed up in my recent posts list and obviously, what category the main post is from. If it wasn’t a post that I wanted included in a category of recent posts list, why would I want to display at as main item? Obviously I don’t think thoses specific category posts warrant the attention.

—– START CODE —-

<?php get_header(); query_posts(‘posts_per_page=5′); ?>

<!– Main Area Starts –>
<div class=”mainArea”>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<!– Main Post –>
<div id=”main”>
<div class=”mainContent”>
 <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
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