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Using CSS Transformations: A How-To

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Lately I’ve been using more advanced CSS3 transformations in my design—both for Webkit and Mozilla—and I wanted to share some of what I’ve been doing.

I’ve launched two sites in the last little bit that take advantage of those: a site for musician Brooks Wood and a site for Houston-based Leyendecker Landscape. In both of these, I’ve tried to take advantage of some great CSS features for those browsers that can handle it and just letting those that can’t ignore it. In this demo, I’m focusing on the form elements since they’ve always tended to be boring.

I’ve attached a link to a working demo of the forms with a brief explanation of how I did what I did. Read on for more. (more…)

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Blogger to Wordpress Import Workaround

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

I’ve been working on a project for a new client and was asked to move their Blogger entries to the new Wordpress installation. While there is an option to do this directly from Wordpress, it does not currently work with version 2.7.1. To make it work, here’s a solution I found and wanted to explain a bit more:

  • Open your favorite FTP program and navigate to where you host your Wordpress installation.
  • Once you’re there, navigate to wp-admin/includes/blogger.php and edit that file.
  • Look at line 918. It should say $parser = xml_parser_create_ns();
  • Change that line of code to the following: $parser = xml_parser_create(); (You’re basically removing the _ns from there)
  • Save your changes and try to import your entries again. Should work like a charm!

Here’s where I found the solution.

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