tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24168347431500911492024-02-21T21:59:19.628-05:00Christopher MonnigChristopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-87517450614237144282014-06-29T15:26:00.000-04:002014-06-29T15:30:02.708-04:00I Just Don’t Blog on Blogger AnymoreSeveral years ago, when I first decided I needed a blog, I decided to try an experiment: I’d sign up for both Wordpress and Blogger and use both in parallel for a while to see which one I liked better. Eventually, had things gone according to plan, I would have written a post comparing and contrasting the two services. At that point I would have picked whichever one I liked the most, imported allChristopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-34589517190430163262013-05-28T21:06:00.000-04:002014-06-28T18:02:25.014-04:00A Year of Monthly Blogging: What Have I Learned?It was last May that I decided to start blogging on a more-or-less regular basis, and wrote up a post with some modest goals. Now it’s may again, which seems like as good a time as any to take a look back at the last year of blog posts. Even before I started working on this post, I noticed some patterns emerging.
One thing I noticed is that I have a tendency of taking a topic and milking it for Christopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-31418429398386518482012-08-22T20:43:00.001-04:002014-06-28T18:01:00.545-04:00Is Nofollow Standard?For some reason, I recently wondered if I should be annoyed that Web site owners are generally expected to include the non-standard rel="nofollow" attribute in links in their HTML. The problem with this thought is that calling the attribute “non-standard” is not particularly accurate. It depends on exactly what you mean by “non-standard.”
First, to be absolutely clear, adding rel="nofollow" to Christopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-33320767530015713812012-05-24T17:18:00.000-04:002014-06-28T18:00:00.156-04:00Ultimate Blog Success Without Pollution?I've recently gotten inspired to start blogging. I don't mean like back in October 2010, when I was inspired to sign up for Wordpress and Blogger accounts and play around with them. I mean I'm inspired to get serious about it. That doesn't mean I'm suddenly going to be able to crank out a few blog posts every day, or even a blog post every few days. But it does mean I'm going to try to stick to aChristopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-3855837719037862582011-09-20T12:55:00.003-04:002014-06-28T17:59:43.938-04:00Table-less Forms: A Partial Solition (Source Code)In my last two posts, I discussed what I want to see in a table-free form and the problems I had with creating one. To recap, here's what I wanted:
Labels lined up in the same row as form fields
Label column that stretches/shrinks to the size of the longest label
As little extra HTML as possible
My solution was to enclose <label>s in a <div> that stretches/shrinks to the width of Christopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-4273389633057854732011-09-07T22:08:00.000-04:002014-06-28T17:59:10.670-04:00Table-less Forms: They Are Really That Hard.A couple weeks ago, I posted a list of criteria for what I'd like to see in a CSS-based form that emulated the nifty features that tables provided. To recap, I wanted:
Labels lined up in the same row as form fields
Label column that stretches/shrinks to the size of the longest label
As little extra HTML as possible
The good news: I quickly came up with a solution that met all my criteria. The Christopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-7027948978003266902011-08-24T20:13:00.000-04:002014-06-28T17:43:59.567-04:00Table-less Forms: Are They Really That Hard?I probably don't need to explain the love-hate (and in many cases, just plain hate) relationship Web designers have with tables. If you don't believe me, a Google search turned up this lovely presentation on presentational tables that explains the issues in a much less hot-headed fashion than what I've typically seen before. What I usually read boils down to "Tables are evil, and you should neverChristopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-84173522488110164672011-04-14T09:12:00.000-04:002014-06-28T17:50:54.595-04:00A Lot of Work for an MP3 PlayerI recently obtained a shiny new laptop running Windows 7, and consequently windows Media Player 12, and I went to do some research on making my MP3 player, a Philips GoGear Jukebox HDD1835/37, work with the new software. The first thing I found was a warning (using the <marquee> tag, no less) that Media Player 11 would cause problems, and recommending that users stick with version 10 "or Christopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-84177700882488410022011-01-27T11:34:00.001-05:002014-06-28T17:43:22.815-04:00Okay. Google is cool. I admit it.I used to swear I'd never drink the Google Kool-Aid. Now I'm swimming in it!
First I write a Google Maps-based script for the JB-Nets Web site. Then I start using Google Apps. Now I'm even playing with Google Custom Search Engine.
Just as a little test, I've punched in a few of my favorite Web design sites which you can search using the Google-provided box below:
Anyone Christopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2416834743150091149.post-48139618935106451652010-10-11T20:50:00.000-04:002014-06-28T17:42:32.674-04:00Blogging About My Blogger BlogHello, everybody! As you can see, I am now the proud owner of a Blogger Blog. As with my other recent experiment, a main reason for having this blog (and the reason for having more than one) is to experiment with different blogging services such as Blogger. So I think it's appropriate that my first post consist of my first impressions of this fine service.
First, the cons:
Blogger doesn't like &Christopher Monnighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05725617162387772430noreply@blogger.com0