Chris Roland » Web

Going to give Oxite another try

Chris Roland — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:30:06 +0000

After going through the Oxite hosting issue on Godaddy, I decided to look into the hosting issue further. Basically with Godaddy, unless I had a VPS with them, hosting Oxite is a bunch of hoops I don’t want to jump through just to get a blog going. So, to give Oxite a fair chance I’m going to get a hosting account with Discount ASP.NET, who I hear has great support for ASP.NET.

Oxite no go

Chris Roland — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:59:20 +0000

Well, I tried to move my blog over to Oxite and because my hosting provider is an average run of the mill providers, I wasn’t able to get it up and running. Honestly, the process to get Oxite up and running is way too much effort for a blog. Wordpress works great and is a lot easier to install. So, I’m sticky to Wordpress for now.

Having IE CSS issues? Use DOCTYPE!

Chris Roland — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:01:31 +0000

Ok, this is probably silly, but I ran into an issue where everything was working in FireFox, but IE wouldn’t take. So after some searching and pounding my head against the keyboard, I ran across a quick forum post where someone mentioned to put in a DOCTYPE for your page. So I added the correct DOCTYPE and bam! everything work… thank you Google.

Here is a list of DOCTYPEs out there:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

To save you some headache make sure you put one in.

HTML dotted border

Chris Roland — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:36:23 +0000

I recently ran into an issue where I was using an image as part of the navigation and when you clicked it, you would go to a specific section of the website. When you would click the link, there would be a dotted line around the image and it became real annoying.

After a little bit of research I found out you can remove this dotted line by using the following CSS:
a { outline: none; }

After I placed that in my default stylesheet, the lines were no more.

Changing the cursor on web pages

Chris Roland — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:54:07 +0000

I’m getting more into jQuery and I recently ran into a need to change the mouse cursor when I would hover over a section to indicate what’s going on.

The first thing I needed was a cursor type. I accomplished this by adding a quick class entry into my CSS file:
.over { cursor: pointer; }

I used the pointer cursor because that’s what I needed. I came across a really awesome CSS cursor compatibility list at:
http://www.quirksmode.org/css/cursor.html

The next step was to add Javascript to handle the mouse over:
$(document).ready(function(){

$('.mybox').mouseover(function() { $(this).addClass("over"); });

$('.mybox').mouseout(function() { $(this).removeClass("over"); });

});

Basically the div section I used was:


Change the cursor

Now I have a pointer when I hover over the div section.