Archive for July, 2005

Better DHTML

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

So on the IE Blog, they shared a link about writing better DHTML for IE. So I followed to see if there was anything smugmug could do to make our pages shine even brighter. What I did learn about was the MSIE proprietary reference of outerHTML.
You do remember my previous post about using innherHTML [...]

Subtle UI Problems: Large Headers

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005

This is particularly true of Pros using smugmug, but anyone doing customization can benefit from thinking about this a little bit more.
People come to your galleries to view your photos (and for Pros, to buy!). It’s great to have your brand/studio/company name prominently displayed, but let’s face it, they’re really there to ooh and [...]

A preview of what is to come …

Monday, July 11th, 2005

So part of the new design is out, and no major problems that could not be solved But I wonder if anyone has taken a look at the source code and has seen what the future holds? Gone are the tables and inline styles, everything is now controlled by CSS and DIVs. If you [...]

The NEW Design

Saturday, July 9th, 2005

Most people will have problems centering things, but there is an easy fix for centering your whole site, simply paste this code in the appropriate sections:
<div align="center">
OLD CODE
</div>
Also, before emailing help desk, take a really good look at your code and make sure that you are using standard HTML and that all of the tags [...]