12 May 10

I was trying to override the login block displayed on one of my Drupal sites and I kept running into a lot of trouble. No matter what functions I tried overriding in my template.php, nothing was displaying. All the tutorials I could find online didn't take into consideration the specifics of using a Zen subtheme. Hopefully my guide here will avoid this problem.

17 Mar 10

I was just wrapping up a new website, when to my <sarcasm>big suprise</sarcasm> I found that it was broken in Internet Explorer 8. After doing various tricks to optimize and troubleshoot the code, I discovered that one feature in particular was working just fine in IE7, but was throwing javascript errors in IE8.

I'm utilizing the JQuery plugin MapHighlight to generate a fancy border/highlight effect on an interactive floorplan feature. It turns out, that in IE8, Microsoft removed support for a wildcard selector when creating VML objects. Luckily, this was a relatively easy fix, as someone already did the tough work for us.

Here's how to apply the fix yourself:

05 Feb 10

Following up on my previous discussions about font replacement and font embedding

05 Oct 09

MooTools is on version 1.2.3 (after completely dropping 1.1.1 as the default about a year ago), and version 2.0 is expected before years' end. Joomla however, still is including 1.1.1 because of compatibility issues with various plugins. People have been asking how to safely replace the version of MooTools included. Since I've done this several times, I figured I'd share my method here.

16 Sep 09

Winter is coming soon, and that means snow at Mammoth, and that means skiing!

Continuing on the idea of font replacement, I've been experimenting a bit with using @font-face in CSS. Last week I quickly built a site for interior designers Alexandra and Michael Misczynski. I decided to use @font-face to provide an .otf font to those visitors with new browsers that can display it. I'm really trying to work the the idea of displaying an enhanced experience for newer browsers, instead of the previous thought of making the site look identical on as many browsers as possible.

01 Sep 09

I had just given up on using custom fonts for my client's website. I was adding some new features which meant implementing a drop-down menu system when much to my chagrin, I found out that the font-replacement methods I was employing would no longer work. Of course my client would be upset because the fonts being used (ones most people don't have installed) were specific to their brand, and images were out of the question. (What's the point of a content management system if you have to resave the content as images?) I had already delivered the bad news to my team and was getting ready to notify the client...