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Sheriar Designs http://manisheriar.com/blog Impeccable Code | Beautiful Design Fri, 30 May 2008 00:20:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Saturated Glow: My Latest CSS Zen Garden Entry Zen Garden Entry Number Five: Saturated Glow

The Inspiration

As you may have seen I recently blogged about the completion of one of my latest sites, Rose Edge LLC. While the client and I are both extremely pleased with how the site turned out, it wasn't exactly what I originally had in mind.]]> http://manisheriar.com/blog/saturated-glow-my-latest-css-zen-garden-entry Adium Problem - Error: Socket is not connected AIM account. The error it kept giving me was "Adium problem - Error: Socket is not connected." Frustrating! screenshot

After hunting around the web a bit and finding several headache-inducing solutions (involving deleting, uninstalling, reinstalling, etc), I found a forum comment that I thought worth a try.]]> http://manisheriar.com/blog/adium-problem-error-socket-is-not-connected Wordpress Breadcrumbs http://manisheriar.com/blog/wordpress-breadcrumbs Create Custom Wordpress Includes Rose Edge LLC was that I needed to create a couple of custom includes, and I didn't know how to do that. I needed a space on the sidebar where Kristin could update her Upcoming Event area. I didn't want to have to teach her how to go into the backend code and edit sidebar.php. Next I needed a way for her to edit the "Insight Flash" that appears on her home page. I had already found a way to use the Excerpt as a secondary source of content - I needed another solution.]]> http://manisheriar.com/blog/create-custom-wordpress-includes Use Wordpress Excerpts to Create a Second Content Area Rose Edge LLC: I needed to have two separate content areas and Wordpress only provides one. If you look at the design, I needed my client to be able to control the content in the "highlight box" (the green box at the top) and the "content area" (the blue box below). These could not be part of the same post info because of all the code that is in between them (which defines the visual break between the two. I didn't want my client to have to insert code into the middle of every post. What to do? It occurred to me that Wordpress already has two ways to pull in content: The Post (called in your template with <?php the_content(); ?>) and The Excerpt (called in your template with <?php the_excerpt(); ?>). Since my client wasn't using Wordpress as a blog, but rather as a CMS, she wasn't using The Excerpt at all. Could she use it instead as a secondary content area? Well, yes ... but not without some plugins and modifications.]]> http://manisheriar.com/blog/use-wordpress-excerpts-to-create-a-second-content-area How to Make PSD Files Always Open in Photoshop, Not Preview http://manisheriar.com/blog/how-to-make-psd-files-always-open-in-photoshop-not-preview A New Way of Doing Things http://manisheriar.com/blog/anew-way-of-doing-things Introducing Rose Edge LLC Rose Edge LLC for Kristin Rose, who does motivational speaking, healing, and coaching.

]]> http://manisheriar.com/blog/introducing-rose-edge-llc Graphic Nav Bars Using One Image Only everything.

Using background positioning in CSS, this is actually pretty easy to accomplish. Now you only have one image to create, and it has the extra bonus of taking care of any pesky little IE flicker problems. Here's how to do it ...]]> http://manisheriar.com/blog/graphic-nav-bars-one-image Video Classifieds – What You See Is What You Get iMoondo.

This job was simply a pleasure from start to finish. Andrej Masiar was just so fun and easy to work with … one of those clients you want to stay on the phone chatting with after your done talking about work stuff. Andrej has some key characteristics that make up a great client that I'm going to keep in mind when trying to replicate that type of client. They are:]]> http://manisheriar.com/blog/video-classifieds-what-you-see-is-what-you-get