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Website Template Fixed – Now looks good in all browsers!
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari
Remember when I said there was a problem with my template layout that caused it to display funny in every browser except Firefox? Well I finally got around to fixing it and thought I’d share the solution with you all. I figured it might be helpful to someone.
Why The Difference?
The different browsers display things slightly different sometimes because they use different “kits” (or rather — rendering engines) to parse the HTML/CSS/JavaScript and convert all that code into the page you see (I’m trying to keep this in layman’s terms as much as possible).
Who Uses What?
Firefox uses Gecko Chrome and Safari use Webkit Internet Explorer uses Trident Opera uses Presto
Response to Reader Question: How to Archive Facebook Chats
Howto: Add Your Facebook Friends to Pidgin (via The Linuxologist)
One of my readers (and friends) asked:
“Is there a way to retrieve your facebook chats somewhere on your computer?”
While I personally do not use the Facebook chat (or any chat, seriously. I just don’t have time), I don’t get questions from my readers very often so I thought I’d look into it.
Here is what I’ve found…
The Basics
Facebook chat — as it is when you are logged in to Facebook.com — is nothing more than an HTML/AJAX “chat”… I’m trying to keep this in as plain of terms as possible for the sake of time and to save you the headache of technical details (I assume
Old Template Plus New WordPress Equals Problems
oops! I guess my theme is broken!
I spent a lot of time looking into the problem I was having with the SFC plugin and after all the searching and digging I’ve come to the conclusion that my problem is most likely my Template.
The problem (as far as I can tell at this point) is that I made this template way back when I was using WordPress 2.1 and there have been many significant changes to WordPress since then and especially with the latest version (3.0).
So in the next few days I’m going to have to either make a whole new template or do some serious revisions to this one. Please be patient with me during this time,
Integrating WordPress with Facebook
Facebook and WordPress (image from: www.serifgroup.com)
I find that I am on Facebook a fair amount during the day and since I have friends and family who may be interested in reading my blog and perhaps sharing an article or two here and there, I thought it might be worthwhile to integrate my site with Facebook.
I looked into the Facebook Docs to see what kind of options they had. It looked simple enough, but I thought it might be even more simple, so I checked for existing plugins for WordPress that might simplify things even further!
There are a lot of plugins to sort through, but the one that seemed to stand out the most was: Simple Facebook Connect
Website Alignment Issues
Firebug Extension for Firefox
It has come to my attention that my template’s alignment is not quite right when displayed in certain browsers. Anything but Firefox to be specific.
I will take a look at the CSS and HTML and try to find the problem when I can get to a proper computer (I’m on my iPhone right now). In the meantime I thought this might be a good time to mention a handy tool for anyone who is interested in web design/development. Perhaps you have heard of it before, but perhaps not. (it’s also another great reason to use Firefox as your primary browser).
Firefox has an awesome addon called “Firebug” which allows you to do a lot of