scriptygoddess

At my job I need to do most of my web layouts using tables (not the latest fancy shmancy CSS) – yes, I know I'm a dying, hated breed – but blame it on our customers who refuse to download a newer browser, yet still, in some round-about fashion, pay my salary…

In any case, if you are designing a layout with a table, and for some reason have a huge chunk of space ABOVE the table, and can't for the life of you figure out WHERE that space is coming from… go look at your HTML code VERY carefully. Specifically, make sure your code follows the format of:

<table>
<tr>
<td>
ANYTHING YOU WANT
</td>
</tr>
</table>

etc…
if you have any "text" or anything else other than TABLE related tags OUTSIDE of a TD, yet INSIDE your TABLE tags – you'll get a mysterious space above your table.

Here's an example of BAD code (that will cause space above a table)

<table>
<tr>
<p>I don't belong here!</p>
<td>
ANYTHING YOU WANT
</td>
</tr>
</table>

SearchTools.com – Searching PDF files

(has some links to convert PDFs to HTML (I'm sure the output is probably scary) but for a "quick fix" it might be interesting…)

Scriptygoddess was nominated in this year's bloggies for the same two categories it won last year (thanks guys!) 😀

Looking at the list of other nominees I saw Mezzoblue. I feel kind of funny saying this – but I've never seen Dave's site before. Very nice site – lots of good info there – go check him out. 😀

If you're using MT-Blacklist, and would like to grab the blacklist from this site, here you go. (This site gets quite a bit of comment spam, so the list is pretty extensive!)

(FYI – this list is also now linked in the sidebar. Last "box" towards the bottom)

I know I'm behind the times a bit, but it started with the "currently listening to" interest (that I still have yet to implement) but then when I saw this link, I thought I'd mention it, since it's the next logical step.

All Consuming

Looks like you can set up a "currently reading" link (that can even get associated with an Amazon associate id).

[found via Purple Goddess]

(FYI – if you have an alternate way of doing this, I'd be interested in hearing about it… just for curiosity sake)

(I'll probably add more to this post later)
Went looking for a "now playing" like people have for winamp – except I wanted it for iTunes (yes, the jury is out – I love iTunes (for windows). Buymusic and Napster can kiss my butt! LOL!)

In any case – Kung-tunes
(still not sure if this is what I'm looking for… I'll update later.)
(Grr… Kung-tunes is for Mac – someone mentioned jTunes – but I can't seem to find the right one)
[via partylemon]

A ton of CSS links
[via Kristine'slovelinks who had it via redemption through standards]

Pixie (kind of like Coloristic) – lets you mouseover a color and it tells you what the RGB, HTML, etc. values are of that color. (But actually even better than Pixie, and does the same thing and more, is ColorPic)
[Pixie via Melissa – ColorPic via Kristine in Melissa's comments]
(yeah, I know it's an OLD post, but I needed it yesterday and had some trouble finding it)

FavIcon Generator
[via Melissa who had it via Upian]

(oh, and from just about everyone!)
MT released ver. 2.662.661

Spurred on by Martin Roell's example, I decided to add some translation to my MovableType weblog.

I outlined how to do it here.

If your weblog stats are showing people coming in who are speaking different languages, it's a good idea to help them help themselves when reading your weblog.

I often find myself strolling around the web and running across links that I like that I don't have the time to review completely right then, but don't want to forget about. Also, much of the time I find something at home that I want to remember to look at while at work, or vice versa. Because of my deep and abiding, yet completely inexplicable hatred for browser bookmarks, I always avoid just bookmarking a page, so I needed a better, more portable solution.
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You can tell what I'm working on by the types of posts I make here

In any case, I'm looking for software packages to add search functionality to a relatively small site. However, they'd rather not have "some one else's logo or advertising", and they'd rather host it internally if possible. As well, we're not running php, so while my previous php search post was more for future reference for myself – that solution won't work for this particular issue.

Here's a few links to search software products I'm looking at (I'll add as I go along) They seem to have "free" versions and can be used with php, asp, or anything you want:
Zoom Search Engine – Wrensoft (update: after trying all three of these Wrensoft is my favorite! This is the one I'll probably get)
aleadsoft Search Engine Builder
Web Wiz Guide – Advanced Site Search