I’m a huge fan of CSS and intelligent use of it such as removing images, background colours and scaling down font sizes for print, but some things need more work. If you’re looking at this site from an iPod Touch, iPhone or Android device, you should now get a much more compact ‘just-the-facts’ style view, [...]
Crikey. That was a bit of work – moving from WordPress 1.2 with a huge number of hacks into the latest-and-greatest version, but even though it was pretty much working, software from May 2004 (!) was starting to show in terms of flexibility and general slickness. I’ve added some static pages for things like my [...]
Ok, commenting is effectively disabled, so this morning there are 15 trackback spam links… Just in case anyone wondered what ‘they’ do next, and yes, for the moment Trackback has been disabled (if it turns out to be an exploit rather than a real Trackback, then it’ll be back on again once it’s patched).
Given that I have always tried as hard as I can to make browsing my site (in all its incarnations) as similar as possible in both the latest standards compliant browser(s) as well as lynx/links (without resorting to browser idents, thankyouverymuch) it’s with regret that I now announce that I’ve added JavaScript to my site, [...]
For some reason, visitors to this site seem to love clicking on one or more smiley faces and then sending it as a comment. I’ve no idea why, except perhaps that they feel my site doesn’t have enough images, but if you’d like to have a little more information to go on before deciding to [...]
Comment moderation is handy, but it’s annoying from a non-spammers point of view when it appears that the submission has simply vanished. My solution is to add an extra function to wp-includes/template-function-comments.php and a couple of lines in the wp-comments.php file that show a placeholder for pending comments with the time and date of submission [...]