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Inserting pages into category archives in wordpress |

Wouldn’t it be handy if you could have a little story at the top of your archive pages (or other templates), explaining exactly what’s what? And wouldn’t it be handy if that little story was fully wysiwyg editable? I thought so.
Sites in Wordpress (WP) have “posts” which go into categories and “pages”, which are independent. […]

Bye bye liquid layouts! |

Yes, I am predicting the death of liquid layout of web pages. Not all mind you, some web apps will still be liquid, but for the rest of the web: liquid is dead. This is a natural follow-through from declaring elastic layouts dead, so no surprises here.
There are three main ways to define your layout […]

Px vs Em: Is it still relevant? |

You used to have to choose. Choose between an easy, but inflexible, px-based layout or a hard to control, but flexible, em-based layout.
Now with full-page zoom being implemented (as default!) in Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3 and Opera 9*, it’s a different story. Full-page zooming means your easy px-based layout will be fully flexible. Even […]

No business benefits for microformats |

Over the past year there’s been a lot of attention in certain circles for “microformats”. Essentially, microformats are standardisations of class-values to use in html. The implied benefit is that any 3rd party (be it a browser or another site) could easily gain access to that information and be able to do something useful with […]

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