Heathbits

That’s what I worked on all day today… updating buttons, links, and footers. Ben updated the forum and blog software, taking the edits out of ’quick edit’ mode implementing them into the layouts. This means I have to update every single layout we have currently, coding in the new CSS and HTML changes.

The main issue I wrestled with here was the ‘display: -moz-inline-block’ bug associated with text-alignment. This is a common problem, because lots of people (like me) like to convert anchor tags from links into buttons, and have them all line up on one line. Incredible as it sounds, it was Microsoft IE that did things right (for once) and Firefox that was screwed up. With IE, you just simple do a ‘display: inline-block’ and you can center your text within the width and height you set for the anchor. Not in Firefox. It ignores the height and width. So you use their special Mozilla property to get it to work, but then it puts each link on a sperate line. UUUGGGGGHHH! I searched everywhere for a solution, and most them were horrid and ugly. So I cheated. I put the two links I wanted side by side inside a two cell table. I know… I know… your not supposed to use tables for layout. But hey… until EVERYONE in the browser world gets their crap together, I’m not gonna feel guilty about doing such work arounds.

I took this updating opportunity to also go ahead and implement some other changes we have been wanting to do to all layout, mainly updating the footer so you can update its CSS properties. Basically, this is an undoing of code that was implemented about 6 months ago. I hard coded all the CSS properties in-line to the HTML on the footer to keep people from hiding our logo at the bottom using the CSS override tool. This, of course, caused more problems than it fixed, mainly from the fact that we want to encourage re-sellers to use our product. This would prevent them from putting their own footer in… so we decided to yank out the in-line code and go back to the original design.

It has been tedious and down right boring making all these changes… and I’m only half way done. I will hopefully have them complete before Monday so I can start working on other stuff!