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13 Sep, 2002

Getting Readable Dates from Mysql…

Posted by: dave In: Lessons learned

Well.. this took me a little while, and I'm somewhat embarrased to admit it… I was writing a script to pull some data from several tables, and the date field looked something like this: 1031849565 Its a Unix Timestamp (representing the number of seconds from Jan, 1 1970 up to sometime in 2037), and luckily […]

06 Sep, 2002

HTML emails and stylesheets

Posted by: Jennifer In: Lessons learned

(This is more of a "work-related" post) – Part of my job (unfortunately) is designing HTML emails… which, if you thought difficulties with browsers was a problem, you don't even want to know from the HTML email world! In any case, while I know HTML for the web relatively well, I know very little about […]

Every now and then, I run across bits of code that I simply cannot make stick in my head, no matter how hard I try to make it happen. For me, one of my worst problems was remembering which CSS property controlled each portion of the scrollbar. I loved having pretty, properly-shaded scroll bars, but […]

16 May, 2002

Naming issues in MT

Posted by: Jennifer In: Lessons learned

Remember a few days ago I was having major problems with this site? I think I *just* realized what may have caused the problem.

15 May, 2002

Easy "printer-friendly" versions of webpages

Posted by: Jennifer In: Lessons learned

I'm working on a design of a website, and they *just* came to me and reported that the site doesn't print out that well. DOH! Cetain pages really need to be "printable" – how hard would it be to make a printer-friendly version? There's an easy solution with PHP coming… (I just LOVE PHP! Can […]

10 May, 2002

The evil back button

Posted by: Jennifer In: Lessons learned

In working with Lynda (who did MOST of the work! LOL!) on that subscribe to comments script, one of the problems we ran into was with the back button. If after submitting a comment, you hit the back button (which was scary HOW MANY people use it when navigating) it would resubmit the comment and […]


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