Web Design

Change your max file upload size in WordPress

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Everybody may already know how to do this but, I didn’t and it was driving me crazy.  And, since I will have to make this change again sometime, I’m posting it here. Ever since I switched over to WordPress, I’ve been stuck with a two (2) meg file upload limit.  I thought this was a bit crazy because I self host this … Read more

Set-up an FTP Server on Windows 2003 Server

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Setting up an FTP server on Windows 2003 Server is a pretty simple process.  Why would you need an FTP server?  Well, if you are hosting websites you might want to allow designers and customers access to their webfolders  (not me… no one accesses my server but me but you can.. 🙂 ) and an FTP server is a great … Read more

CSS – Long URL

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This is an older post that did not make it through to the new site when I converted to WordPress. Hopefully this will still be relevant to someone out there.

CSS and the Long URL:

I was working on a webmail client a while back and had been having a few design problems. Sometimes when you subscribe to a blog, forum or usergroup the e-mails from those respective subscriptions will include an “unsubscribe url”. This Blog does. Now this URL can be really long and, in a normal email client (Outlook, Thunderbird etc) this is a non issue. But, writing a webmail client this became an issue.

In Firefox, if the url is longer than the width of the div area it would break my layout. In IE the long url would wrap to the next line as expected. The only Fix I could find for this was

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WordPress and Smileys

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I don’t know about you but, sometimes on the web (twitter especially) the humor or sarcasm meant in a statement can be lost. So, I always try to add a little smiley so people know I’m not such a big jerk.  On a similar front, WordPress will convert text smileys into their graphic equivalent . The problem is, I can’t … Read more