Dan Price’s blog
Weblog of a cyber-geek

I’ve been reading Stu Nicholl’s CSS Play article recently, entitled “Back To Basics” - I know some of this, but some of it I didn’t know. I’ve been searching for a fix to ensure that the background of my site fills the screen on IE from the top to the bottom, whether or not there is that much content. It’s definitely worth a read in my opinion.

It’s that time again - Wikipedia is begging for finance publicly, but this time their campaign is being commanded by an illiterate monkey. The notice is on a rotated basis, but this is the message I received when visiting the site:

The site is already getting a bad reputation, and some have nicknamed it “Wreckipedia” so this isn’t the perfect time to start employing a primemate to run the publicity campaign!

For those members on Webmaster-Talk, you may have noticed I’ve been a bit quiet during the past couple of days. No I haven’t gone mute or lost 3 fingers on each hand, I’ve been busy with a new project.

This ambitious project is a new template download service, Whym Templates, where I hope to upload free templates designed by yours truly for public use. It’s not an original idea, but one difference is that I’m not forcing anyone to place links in the footer.

I hope you’ll all support me with this - it’ll only be useful if people actually download something!

Dan

This is a hilarious episode, where Homer decides to become a boxer, starting off fighting hobos/tramps, but ends up fighting the world champion, Drederick Tatum. The episode is taken from the 7th season
Best Quotes:

Barney: You’d never get me in a ring - boxing causes brain damage. [He then proceeds to drink a can of varnish] (more…)

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), long le creme de la creme of British television has announced today it is going to make radical changes to cover a £2 billion budget shortfall.

This means axing huge numbers of staff, approximately 1800, and selling off the cherished historical home of the organisation, the Television centre.

The full story of the news is here (more…)

I just signed into my Digital Pointless account (yes I do actually have one, though I created it to try and sell some domains).

Anyway, after signing in and making a case for my latest cause (a fibre optic network for Britain), I took a look at my Control Panel. Lone behold, I had received some negative talkupation/reputation from some “know-it-all” scammer who believed that PageRank was superior to visitors! (more…)

Somehow, I’ve managed to pick up a reputation for being against the Digital Point(less) forums - I’ve got no idea how…

Before I launch into a rant, I want to briefly explain why I detest DP with a vengeance. I first released how rubbish filled the forum was when I started visiting Webmaster-Talk *reminisces* Back then, I just accepted this as fact, it coming from knowledgeable sources on spamming (they know who they are!) Anyway, I decided to embark on the forums myself as although they’re full of scammers, spammers and other idiots. While my experience didn’t last long, a very quick peak in on the SEO “badvice” I found was enough to confirm my fears. Right, time for the main subject, a blog post about none-other than ME!

This blog post, coming from a Digital Point member who must have also noticed me at Webmaster-Talk seems to sum up my feelings, even if it is slightly biased. (more…)

A while ago, I signed a petition on the Prime Minister’s web site regarding forcing BT to upgrade to a fibre optic network. As I was browsing and the issue of broadband speed crept back into my mind, I decided to check it out again.

BT (British Telecom) is scheduling an overhaul of it’s services, which will finish by 2011. The current plan is to upgrade all homes to using IP telephones and cables which should bring broadband speeds up to a reasonable 24mbps.

However, Japan and other countries are already using broadband speeds which are considerably faster than this! 2011 is over 3 years away still so the speed gap will continue to grow between now and then.

I urge every British person reading this to sign the petition on the Prime Minister’s site - it only takes a minute and I think it’s worth it! Do you want to be using 24mbps in 2011 when Japan amongst other countries are using something like 150mbps?! Sign it now!

I’ve finally completed the redesign of my hosting site - the trials and tribulations I’ve faced….

Most of my issues were down to IE6, but I’ve managed to overcome most of them.

The actual redesign background and logo were given to me free from some very helpful people on the forums - who am I to refuse?

I’ve been searching around for a long time to find a solution to IE6’s stupid lack of support for transparent PNGs. I read numerous tutorials to find hacks for IE6, with methods including Javascript, HTC files and the official Microsoft hack. However, I repeatedly disappointingly found I could get none of these working (I’m aware some people did get them to work, but I couldn’t).

Then thanks to a genius on the Webmaster-Talk forums, Adam Senour, I found a fantastic way to get these working on my site. The solution is actually very simply, is purely CSS based and doesn’t involve making any new images! Here we go:

1) Rather than using the img tag in your HTML file, make an empty div tag and give it an ID. For this tutorial, I’ll call it “logo”. (more…)