Well I’ve discovered a weird “feature” in internet explorer where half the time the logo in Cuptealuv only half appears and sometimes it only does the top 10% – but only in ie. The same page in firefox displays just as I want it. The problem is that ie doesn’t have webdeveloper extensions so I can’t turn on the borders around div’s to try and work out what is going wrong. Even in html kit in an offline copy it seems to work in ie in the preview window (which uses ie) but then doesn’t when you view in the browser itself – very frustrating and any clues appreciated. I’ve been using the tips at wordpress guide to get the look and until i had the height of the graphic correct it wouldn’t even appear correctly in preview but now that it does I’m stumped.
Update Well I’ve given up on the css style of doing the header but as it was just a graphic it was “easier” to just load the graphic in place of the header information for the webpage. I say easier as I had to edit the individual templates in MT and add the line in and then rebuild all the entries but it now seems to work. If you are still only getting half a pic or one and a half pics then press refresh.
Neil – thanks for the info, it didn’t help me solve the problem but will be of use for further development, thanks.
I’m amazed that some of Microsoft’s MVP’s on Security are 14 and 17 years old. Just how do they manage to know all this stuff and get all those qualifications by their age?
I’ve used David Raynes: Closing comments on old entries script to hopefully close trackback on Kristen’s blog and at the same time I have started to play with some css for some learning time before I roll out a new blog/site. She now has a header image and we’ve also changed some colours and fonts although you get the best effect if you have curlz mt font installed. I’ve got to look up how to embed the font into the webpage. I know it is possible but can’t remember how to do it right now.
Willy Morin posted his stylesheet for Feed On Feeds, the (web based) rss reader that I use. However his files were uploaded in some weird compression routine so I’ve reloaded them up as a zip file which can be downloaded here.
As I also use the non frames version I edited the css slightly and saved it as fof.css in the fof directory (as well as keeping his download in the frames directory). The edits I made are in the extended entry.
Mike blogged about a problem with firefox extensions, in particular tabbrowser extensions. I used to be quite a fan of TBE but now I’ve found that I don’t really need the functionality of this plugin. However I do use the plugins ?adblock, autocopy , ieview, linky, local_install, all in one gestures,EditCSS, flashblock, web developer, colorzilla,tabbrowserpreferences and gmail notifier.
Speaking of training, it looks like there is some free training and practise exams for the Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician certification. Something that I’ve not looked at but shouldn’t/hopefully have a problem in obtaining.
In another DR situation coming up shortly, we are going to restore a w2k3 server with exchange2k3 on it. I’ve done it (for real) on exchange2000 and it wasn’t a pleasant experience but hopefully e2k3 has improved the methods used to do a recovery. Checking in technet I found a good page which has multimedia presentations on how to do various exchange2003 recovery procedures. Hopefully I can find this content on my technet cd’s so I don’t have to download it off the internet but again, useful training to do before the event.
We’re installing Windows Update Services on Monday in a test environment. It is something I’ve intended to do but did’t want to disrupt the network with changes before I leave. But now that I’m leaving we want something in place before I go. We downloaded the software and stepbystep guide from Windows Update Services Open Evaluation and I’ve got some bedtime reading to do.
Now that we had proved (or thought we had) that the DR recovery onto new hardware for our Symantec Enterprise Firewall worked it was time to upgrade to version 8 of the software.
An interesting concept in webdesign but there are some good pointers to computer stuff at Wilsonmar.com including some interesting notes on security which is how I stumbled across the site.