CSS Equal Height Columns

While looking for a solution for the thread called "background repeat of the left cotainer based on middle container" on the WebMasterWorld Forum I automatically thought of using tables. It is definitely the easiest but its browser support is not the best (see Seven Reasons to go Table Free).

'Marquee or not marquee' or 'How to scroll text in HTML?'

The question could also be: should marquee be used as an element or as a css property?

Before I would elaborate on that, let me just give an example to the ones who have no idea what marquee means. This is basically an element or css property (see below which one is which) that allows you to make a simple text (or even image) scroll in a specified direction with a specified speed.

webeno.blogspot.com got below 2 M on Alexa Ranking

Dear beloved readers!

Today webeno.blogspot.com got below 2 million in the worldwise website ranking of Alexa. This might not sound like a big deal, but considering the fact that there are over 200,000,000 (200 million) websites on the internet currently (source: Netcraft), my blog is actually among the leading 1%!

Simple IT Center button based website

Simple IT Center button based websiteA good example as to how to simplify a central information website only using big buttons making sure it's easy to choose from.

Here you go: GetIT Center

Note: I used the image preload setting I explained in my previous post about CSS Preload images (hover backgrounds).

CSS Preload images (hover backgrounds)

While building a one page site with many images on it as buttons to click (div backgrounds), I realized that the hover picture takes some time to load and I can imagine what that could mean for someone who has slower connection. What happens in this case is that if you hover over an image, it will not display the hover background image for some time, so you'll just see a white space instead of the image.

Cloak, shorten or snip your affiliate links (URLs) vs TinyURL

If you have webhosting and own a domain, you simply have to place a text file into the root folder of your domain and rename it to .htaccess (the "dot" is very important, also make sure it has NO extension - remove the .txt at the end) with the following line in it:

redirect 301 /[LinkYouWantToUse] /[YourLongAffiliateLink]

How to delete multiple layers in Flash?

How to delete multiple layers in Flash?What an easy thing, you would say, and it is, you just have to know as it's a bit tricky. Check out the following article to find out the "secret" of Deleting Multiple Layers in Flash CS3*. ;)

*it works with many other versions of Flash

Getting rid of the dotted outline of the a tag - a one liner

It annoyed me too, but I haven't really given it a second thought and finally I found it accidentally in the blog post Making the WordPress Menu Smarter while looking for something completely different.

I took the interesting part out of the post for you, here you are: