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April 7, 2010

Bug Alert: Facebook Lite Brings Up Blank Page

Update: As of April 20, 2010, Facebook Lite is no more. Sigh.

http://www.facebook.com/facebook?v=wall&story_fbid=110629035639137

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I don't know how many people use Facebook Lite, but since yesterday I've been getting a totally blank page when I go to it. It happens in all my browsers, but fortunately I've found a fix for it.
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Thesis Version 1.7 Now Available

Last week, DIYthemes released Thesis version 1.7, an upgrade that includes new options for search engine optimization (SEO), behind-the-scenes performance enhancements, some interface changes, and my favourite part--an Options Manager that lets you save the settings you make in the options panels to easily reuse them on other sites.

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Bug Alert: Removing Image from Who-Viewed-Profile Apps on Facebook

My previous post, Beware of "Who Viewed My Profile" Apps on Facebook, received, by far, the most traffic I've ever received in a single day on this blog. Unfortunately, there's a new problem associated with the original one.

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More Fun with Firefox Tabs

This post is partially instructional and partially a look into how my brain works. (Be afraid... :)

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Thesis: Replacing List Bullets with Images Using CSS

Replacing standard HTML list bullets with images can be a great way to tie them into your overall theme and make your site more visually appealing.

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Is Facebook Allowing Multiple Accounts Now?

In a post last year about setting up a Facebook fan page, I said, "I should also point out that having two individual profiles is a violation of Facebook's Terms of Service as well." That no longer seems to be the case.

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Thesis: Format Previous Entries Pages Like Your Home Page

When you set up a WordPress blog, you can use the WP Settings > Reading panel to limit how many posts appear on a "blog" page, i.e. any page that displays a list of posts. When you have more than that many posts, you get Previous Entries and Next Entries links at the bottom of the page that let you navigate through them all. This is referred to as pagination.

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First Thoughts on the Latest Facebook Redesign

I'd been reading various snippets about the latest redesign from my friends and on industry blogs but still wasn't really sure what to expect. So when I finally got it yesterday, my first thought was that it didn't seem too bad.

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Thesis QuickTip: Adding Thumbnails to Your Teasers

I love the teaser feature of Thesis, where you have two columns of shorter blurbs linking to older blog posts. You can get a lot more links on your home page without making visitors have to scroll forever. However, by default, the teasers only display text, which is a little bland. And it's a real waste for sites that have a lot of attractive imagery in their posts, like photography, travel, and food blogs. Fortunately, it's very easy to add images to your teasers and Thesis offers several options for sizing and positioning them without requiring any coding at all.

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Working with Tabs in Firefox

Tabs were one of the best features ever added to browsers (remember when you had to have multiple browsers open on your computer to have access to several websites at a time?). Here are just a few tips on ways to work with them in Firefox.

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Thesis: Applying Functions Only to Specific Pages

In an earlier post, I showed you how to write a simple function that places a text box above the headline of your pages. But you don't always want certain content or functionality to apply to every single page on your site. In this post, I'm going to introduce you to conditional statements, which let you specify which pages your function will apply to.

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One Year Later: NOW Are You a Twit if You Still Don’t Tweet?

One year ago today, I wrote my very first post about Twitter. At the time, I said that, despite the ever-building buzz, I had my doubts about how important it really was to be on it.

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