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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

Pithy bar

Sidebar quick links, or b-links are very popular now. I wasn’t that interested at first in them until I found myself wanting to point out items of interest, but without writing a great deal about the item. I don’t necessarily like doing little posts with nothing more than a link, so b-links really is a good alternative. […]

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Burningbird

Styles redux and identity

My thanks to those who provided feedback on the styles. At this time I’ve dropped Cabinet and Clashing, though I’ll keep the clashing style in the ‘about these sheets’ page – it is a rather interesting way of looking for web site colors. I was surprised by the variety of answers I received when I […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

Nudging Burningbird out of the way

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Another change I’ve made recently is add my full name to both my syndication feeds and to the weblog pages. Perhaps I’ll be more careful with what I write, now that my name is so prominently attached to the pages. Or I’ll feel more ownership of what I write, I […]

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Burningbird

Time to trim

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that I’ve had fun with CSS and stylesheets, it’s time to cut back on their number. A dynamic stylesheet is a very effective approach to styling your site, but not if you also combine this with a dynamic stylesheet selector as I do. The reason is that when each […]

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Burningbird

Setting expectations

My ISP, Hosting Matters made several changes to our accounts on the first without any prior warning. Yeah, darn them. First, they increased the amount of disk space each customer has, which means that now I’m just going to have to go out and find something to fill all that extra space–such as add back the photos I had […]