Tilted Circle Media

I was laid off a few weeks ago and somehow it feels liberating. Yes desperate times call for desperate measures so I have called all our services like DTV and Telephone/Internet and reduced everything as much as possible. I think now, living elsewhere is quite obtainable even though our house is ready for a short sale. Many avenues have opened up for me and as long as I stay busy and motivated, not to mention keeping the kid away from the laptop, things should be groovy. We are contemplating a temporary move/visit to my grandmothers to help her out around the farmhouse for a while. I don’t know maybe for a couple months. Then we would have a better idea of our finances and could possibly entertain the idea of actually moving back to Tampa/St. Pete. That is all for now and just an FYI, i’m working on a fabulous design for this site, but only when time permits. Ciao for now!

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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Floats, clears, and color flashes

Floats, clears, and color flashes

After viewing this site’s redesign in progress, Peter Petrus wrote:

[Y]ou’re using footer to clear floats (content + sidebar). This creates a large drawback, because before footer is downloaded and displayed in the browser, parent wrapper lacks any background.

It means that we’re staring on black text / orange background combo for a few moments. Well, few moments now, but should you put any unresponsive widgets in the sidebar, everything can render much slower. Having main content flash like this isn’t very pleasant – especially when you named the redesign “Designing from the content out”.

Solution is very simple – use ‘:after’ clearing for the main wrapper. Sure, it won’t work on IE, but 1) setting width to wrapper sets hasLayout and triggers clearing 2) #footer is still there, in any case.

I’d read about using “:after” clearing but hadn’t implemented it and thought I could solve the problem an easier way. This afternoon, with about five minutes’ work, I did so.

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What is twitster?

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• Publish your Twitter community on your own web site.
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Check it out! Twitster