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Link a Category to an External URL in Wordpress

Stephen — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:18:07 +0000

What I wanted was have a category link on my site open up an external site in a new tab. A simple task in something like Joomla. But you can’t configure this in Wordpress! It baffles me why such a basic feature is not standard. However, here’s my solution. First, I tried a lot of redirection [...]

Convert MP3 to KMP

Stephen — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:20:03 +0000

A great deal was advertised on TV in Seoul recently where you could get a new LG Cyon mobile phone—the strangely named Viewty, model KH2100, for only 26,000 won. It included a charger in the deal and since we needed an extra one of those, we bought the phone. It’s got all the stuff you’d expect [...]

Putting DIVs Side by Side

Stephen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:13:57 +0000

It can be very frustrating working with divs, when trying to modify an existing design. I had a situation where I wanted to modify a design so that the sidebar was not fixed with “relative: absolute” positioning. Things weren’t wrapping how I wanted because of it, plus the sidebar was hiding the footer. I needed the [...]

Jailbreak iPod Touch 1.1.4 and Add an English-Korean Dictionary

Stephen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:14:13 +0000

I’ve noted before my disdain for Apple and the company’s culture of arrogance. And I’ve mentioned my annoyance at certain decisions made regarding the iPod Touch. What further annoys me about this product is that Apple expects you to pay extra to have some more very basic applications added to it. The way around that [...]

Fixing the Slow Opening of Office 2003 Documents and Worksheets

Stephen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:50:16 +0000

The time it was taking Office 2003 documents and spreadsheets to open on my wife’s PC was a joke. It was a real pain without explanation. And I still don’t know why it happened. However, I did find out how to fix it, not before wasting more of my life because of Windows. I will [...]

Overcoming How Apple Sucks

Stephen — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:16:42 +0000

After my wife purchased an iPod Touch, she was disappointed to find how restrictive it’s video formats were. It annoyed me, too. But Apple’s arrogant and moronic policy on this has annoyed a lot of people. It really is pathetic. I’ve never had a smooth relationship with Apple, for one reason or another, going way back. [...]

Insert HTML Code Into HTML, PHP or SHTML Files

Stephen — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:27:47 +0000

The scenario is that I wanted to insert HTML code into HTML, PHP or SHTML files to create the “tab” menu bar seen at the top of the page. For this, the code had to go after the <body> tag in each content management system file that handled the page structure. To include the HTML code [...]

Dominating!

Stephen — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:04:25 +0000

(Select for a larger size) I was dominating! A rare moment for me, in the world of Counter Strike, so I just had to post it. On the left you can see my tally: 1 wounded, almost killed, and 3 killed! Sadly, just as I’d taken out my last victim, someone got me with a head [...]

Web Safe Colour Standards

Stephen — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:24:15 +0000

By Dyann K. Schmidel, and repeated here just for fun and because it’s pretty . . .

steelblue
steelblue
steelblue

4682B4

royalblue
royalblue
royalblue

041690

cornflowerblue
cornflowerblue
cornflowerblue

6495ED

lightsteelblue
lightsteelblue
lightsteelblue

B0C4DE

mediumslateblue
mediumslateblue
mediumslateblue

7B68EE

slateblue
slateblue
slateblue

6A5ACD

darkslateblue
darkslateblue
darkslateblue

483D8B

midnightblue
midnightblue
midnightblue

191970

navy
navy
navy

000080

darkblue
darkblue
darkblue

00008B

mediumblue
mediumblue
mediumblue

0000CD

blue
blue
blue

0000FF

dodgerblue
dodgerblue
[...]

PHP Fusion Mod: Only Show Utilized News Categories

Stephen — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 00:12:51 +0000

It annoyed me that when the News List is selected in PHP Fusion, you get the whole list of news categories with their images, regardless of whether they have any news associated with them. This means that people have to scroll through all categories to see what news is available. Other PHP Fusion sites did [...]

How I got CS Working with Wine on Linux

Stephen — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:05:47 +0000

I finally installed wine, following much the same procedure as documented here. Then I installed CS. There were no problems installing either of them. I could run Steam, but I couldn’t get any graphics showing, i.e. latest news images, and so on. That didn’t matter too much. However, I couldn’t run CS. The short version [...]

PHP Fusion Mod: Anonymous Guest Comments

Stephen — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:50:15 +0000

I wanted to allow people to leave comments on my PHP Fusion site without the hassle of registration or logging in. That process has always annoyed me about sites, when all I have wanted to do was say thanks or something, and not be forced to jump through hoops to do so. When attempting to implement [...]

How to Stop Browser Jumps Because of the Scroll Bar

Stephen — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:42:02 +0000

When a web page on your site does not reach the height of your browser, there won’t be any scroll bar. However, if you then select a page that has lengthy content, a scroll bar will appear, and this will cause the browser to “jump” to accommodate the extra width. It can be annoying and [...]

Java Guitar Scales Codex

Stephen — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:59:09 +0000

I spent much of my teenage youth playing guitar. The interest waned but returned in later years, after the Internet had really taken off and after I had studied computer programming. Compared to my teenage years, so much information now is out there freely available online. If only . . . When my interest [...]

Having a Good TiddlyWiki

Stephen — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:51:25 +0000

The following refers to the TiddlyWiki you can get by right clicking here and saving the “link” or “target” to download. You enter data into a TiddlyWiki through a tiddler. When you want to make one just click ‘new tiddler’ on the menu on the right. Hover the mouse over the top right of the tiddler [...]

PHP Fusion Mod: Listing Articles Under Categories

Stephen — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:34:17 +0000

The Articles menu option that comes with a default Php Fusion install is pretty useless. I clicked on it only to see a panel with each category, the article count for each category, and under that each category description. Then, I click Articles and all it gives me is categories. What a crock. So, I activated [...]

Web Page Image Alignment & Text Wrap

Stephen — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:27:12 +0000

If you want to have text wrapping around images on a web page and images all nicely aligned and flush with the edge of the page, do this: Place these classes in your style.css .float_right { margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 3px; float: right; } .float_left { margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 3px; margin-right: 15px; float: left; } Then, wherever you have an image reference in your page, use these classes [...]

How to Remove the Joomla Footer Copyright Notice

Stephen — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:05:25 +0000

See http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,552.0.html Essentially there are three ways to change this text. 1. Within your template’s index.php file. 2. Within the /includes/footer.php file. 3. Within the language files. A little explanation of how these methods are inter-related: Each template set lives in its own sub-folder within /templates/ A template consists of: an index.php (not to be confused with the scripts index.php in [...]

How to stop those annoying little dots around linked Images

Stephen — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:02:14 +0000

How do you stop those annoying little dots around linked Images and buttons on your web pages? You’ve probably searched and searched like I did, but the fix is incredibly simple. Just put this in your CSS file: a {outline: none}

Modifying the Links List in Wordpress

Stephen — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:50:20 +0000

As of WP 2.1 the get_links_list() function becomes wp_list_bookmarks(). See codex http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_bookmarks To list links without category names and under a title of your choice do this in function.php file: wp_list_bookmarks(’categorize=0&title_li=’); If you want the output to be other than alphabetical, then perhaps order_by ‘rating.’ Make it like this: wp_list_bookmarks(’categorize=0&title_li=&orderby=rating’); This will just list your links in alphbetical order. The problem [...]