Tweaking Blog Layout

March 12th, 2005 CSS is an astounding piece of feces; in fact I think it is an insult to feces to be put in the same league as CSS. Oh what a web of deceit we weave! Web designers were agog with excitement when CSS first came.

August 8th, 2007 After much debugging I realized that in creating dialogs using Ext.LayoutDialog class of ExtJS library we must specify the configuration for east, west, north and south properties, as required, in the LayoutDialog config (see below for more requirements, details and a working example). This should be done before you add the content panels to the layout of the dialog.

March 17th, 2006 Google appeared with a new look today for Indians (google.co.in). It sports a three column look with flexible center content column.

March 17th, 2006 In order to deal with both old tag soup written to old browser quirks and new standards-compliant pages, Mozilla (and Mozilla-based browsers), Mac IE 5, Windows IE 6, Safari, Opera 7 and Konqueror 3.2 have two main layout modes. In one mode the layout engine attempts to render conforming pages according the CSS and HTML recommendations.

May 22nd, 2008 One of the big challenges in using Google Docs was editing documents big windows which would cause the writing canvas to stretch the entire browser width. On wide-screen displays, this often meant viewing entire paragraphs on just a line or two of the display.

July 10th, 2007 I am making some more changes to the site. Bear with my uglification / beautification (you decide) efforts.

March 2nd, 2005 I have upgraded this blog to WordPress 1.5. With it I am progressively redesigning this blog to simplify accessing of *content*.

January 12th, 2004 I decided to start the year with a better layout for my blog, which was formerly located at http://taragana.blogspot.com/. Why? Lot of features like RSS syndication, better history navigation were missing from blogspot It didn't make sense to host it on blogspot, when I have more than enough space on my own server, in fact two servers! More freedom & control to do as I please, without relying on blogspot Needed something to support multiple pages Category support And a whole lot of other features It means I will be spending more time to provide more content, update it more regularly and overall try to provide you with better experience.

December 12th, 2006 Sue Cline, one of our valued client, tested the effects of Translator Plugin Pro, a plugin to automatically translate your blog to 13 (with version 4.0; currently in testing) different languages, on Jen Burke's Transcending Gender blog since October. They found over 400% increase in site visitors and over 150% increase in links crawled by Google.

January 7th, 2007 1. More regular posting Sometimes I have posted too many and sometimes none. I aim to post more regularly in 2007 2.

August 17th, 2006 Update: I am happy to announce the long awaited release of Anaconda theme for WordPress 2.x (and above) blogs. Your search for a good css based three column WordPress theme is finally over.

March 26th, 2005 I use WordPress to maintain this site. After upgrading to version 1.5 I was left with a theme which doesn't do much of what I want to do with my site.

July 3rd, 2005 I came across the Giraffe Theme from Urban Design which is unique for several reasons. To my knowledge it is the only theme which comes with an administrative for customizing colors, no of posts and other details: Change colour scheme Change font and font size Change whether to have a full-width lead post, or more traditional two-column layout Change page dimensions Configure number of lead posts, recent posts, random posts, and latest comments Switch logo on or off The theme is innovative in its layout and positioning of content.

September 1st, 2006 I am happy to announce the long awaited release of Anaconda theme for WordPress 2.x (and above) blogs. Your search for a good css based three column WordPress theme is finally over.

November 3rd, 2007 We are tweaking our postfix servers to offer maximum spam protection upfront with helo checks, header checks, blacklist checks, RBL's and more. So far my daily spam count has dropped from about 3000-7000 spams / day to about 15-35 spams per day.