- Just saw Michelle Obama have lunch with the Fentys at Georgia Brown’s, I love DC #
I had recently redesigned the start page for Cookography.com. Unfortunately it broke under IE6. I didn’t know about it for a bit. It am going to go through and correct things and keep a log of it here. I found a great overview on all the stupid things IE6 does here.
- Width are calculated differently. In all new browsers, div width does not include padding or border. In IE6 a DIV width includes padding and border. However, no matter how big your borders are, they only count for 1 pixel. (actually this may not be correct, now I am just as confused.) Sometimes it seems to calculate widt correctly
- The other problem is if you float a DIV it will double your margins. Adding a display: inline, seems to help. Sometimes you need to add a _margin and set the margin that way
- IE6 is the only browser that will interpurt a CSS element with a _ before it.
I just scanned in one of the watercolor I did. I am going to try and sell it on Etsy.com.
I gave Illustrator a try again. Drawing using vectors is fun because everything comes out very crisp. It is very different from regular drawing where everything is not as neat.
The Tutorials for Illustrator that UMass put up are great:
Here is one of my trademark birds… more to follow.
Of the week I thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Cookography to Wordpress 2.7. I have never really had trouble with upgrade, so I didn’t bother to do any sort of backup.
Unfortunately when I finished the upgrade, all I got was a blank screen. Not a good sign. I figured I had uploaded something incorrectly so I did a full upgrade, deleting all of the old files first. Still nothing. Then I figured it was something whacky with my FTP program. I was using the free CyberDuck program for the Mac. I hadn’t tried upgrading on a Mac before, so I figured the FTP was doing something weird. Anyhow I registered my copy of Transmit, which is supposed to be a better program. When I uploaded Transmit asked me if I wanted to Overwrite the directories. I click yes, because I wanted to add the new stuff to the website. However overwrite meant completely removing all the custom content I had like themes. Anyhow after what was pretty much a clean install I was still getting a blank page.
Finally after googling around, I found this webpage . Turns out I had an extract line at the end of my config file. UGH! After fixing that, everything worked fine… minus the content I had customized. Luckily I had done a back up sort of recently. Still lesson learned. BACKUP!
- Made it back to DC and in need of another vacation… #
- Go Pats… And I can’t wait to be warm and dry. #
I finally fixed gmail on my blackberry. I had upgraded gmail and it stopped working. I got message saying “this program requires a working data connectiom. Blah, blah, blah”. Turns out that I somehow setup the firewall permissions to block google when the message popups up to check. I must have set it so it wouldn’t check again.
Going to Options-Advanced Settings-Applications-Gmail-Reset Firewall Permissions fixed everything. It only took 3 months for me to figure this out. The gmail app is much better than webpage and it is good to have it back.