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Windows 7 "God Mode"
Although its not open source, I thought someone might find this interesting.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10423985-56.html?tag=TOCmoreStories.0
I guess it begs the question… why not just build this option into the OS?
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Drupal RSS Feed parsing - For Podcasts
I have been rethinking my podcasts page on CatholicTuner.com. I believe I am going about it the wrong way?
I currently have a Content Type specific for Podcasts with fields for the logo, RSS fees, Title, Description and so on. That means that a user must enter all of the info into a node which then gets propagated to a Views page.
I don't know why I never thought of this, but I could just use the Aggregator built into Drupal to import all of this information right from the...
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Now I'm Crying...
<Post removed at the request of the Archdiocese.>
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Oh IE, how I Hate Thee
Oh Internet Explorer... how many times have I encountered your nasty little bugs? How many hours have you caused me to lament the fact that you exist?
Today I was working on a design for the upgraded Archdiocese of Saint Louis website (more to come in the future!), and encountered a nasty little bug in Internet Explorer having to do with CSS list positioning. Apparently, if you define an a element inside a list with "display: block," but don't set a width on the parent element (the li, and then...
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Websites like this make the baby Jesus cry...
http://www2.mde.k12.ms.us/6812/WTHS%20HP.htm
First things first... look at that URL! There are 5 parts to the domain name alone. Then what does all the gook after the / mean?
Then click on the link and view the page. Yick! Sadly, this is the same as the state as half the Church websites I've seen around.
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How Do I Remove The Title in Drupal?
Question: How do I remove the Title in Drupal? Wordpress has the option in the admin settings to remove the title so that only the banner image shows. Is this also true in Drupal, or do I need to insert a conditional statement in my page or node template?
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Website Background Question
OK...I'm sure this is an EASY one for the designers here...
Most of the sites I've built have used fairly simple gradient backgrounds, with small sliced images to reduce load time.
Now, I've found some great textures in the .pat format (Photoshop patterns) that I'd like to use. My problem is they're quite large and I'm still learning my way around Photoshop (still using Fireworks primarily).
These patterns are 740x740 (and larger)...but even if I compress them heavily...they're still around 100-300kb. Any suggestions?
Here's a link to the images: http://webtreatsetc.deviantart.com/art/Retro-Grunge-Wallpaper-Pattens-125020804...
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