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I’ve always come up against problems with the autosave feature in WordPress especially when working on more complex builds where content has in the past had a tendency to just disappear. Rather than trying to debug these issues myself and throwing myself into a blackhole of autosave hell, I’ve just started to (in effect) disable [...]
With WordPress 3.0, the creators really gave the blogging platform another dimension for those of us wanting to make the most of it as a fullly functioning CMS. One key addition was the introduction of custom post types, used in conjunction with the custom post meta features the two become a very powerful tool for [...]
You could say I’ve become somewhat obsessed with @font-face embedding over the past few months. I’ve most certainly fell head over heels for the @font-face generator from fontsquirrel.com (see the recap below). One thing however that has always bothered me is IE7 and IE8′s rendering of embedded fonts, so today with IE tester at hand [...]
This is a very quick tip when using the wonderful contact form 7 plugin for wordpress. Whilst working on another web site recently I noticed that after installing the plugin and testing the form the success or warning message was appearing below the form on submit. This wasn’t ideal on longer forms as the messages [...]
With the usage of IE6 finally declining the majority of us can now afford to be a bit more forgiving in our cross browser testing. Despite this in some circumstances the percentage of a site’s IE6 users is still far to high to do anything other than link a separate stylesheet and spend hours writing [...]
Since launching the site I’ve had a few emails regarding the font being used on allcreatives and also the technique used to embed the font. Despite two previous posts on the progress on @font-face I realised I hadn’t actually posted up on how to implement @font-face effectively, so here it is.
XSLT is a great language used with XML files and is a language that we hope to cover a bit more of here on istmay. If you are new to XSLT and are dealing with stylesheets the following snippet of code could be invaluable.
