Miscellaneous | Intelligent Design

W3C Markup Validation Service

May 9, 2011GeorgeMay, 2011, Miscellaneous0 Comment

The W3C Markup Validation Service is a wonderfully useful tool for checking for syntax errors in web pages. Dreamweaver doesn’t even go to such great lengths to criticize my work. I was put at ease when I used it to analyze Google.com: It detected 36 errors and 3 warnings! I knew their developers were over-paid! […]

Hindi characters allowed in WordPress on friend’s website

May 8, 2011GeorgeMay, 2011, Miscellaneous0 Comment

I modified WordPress’ MySQL Database where the structure called for a text field, which was default set for ‘Latin-1 Swedish,’ I changed each instance to ‘utf8-bin.’ Also, I inserted a Google transliterate script to allow anyone to comment in Nepalese characters by typing the English transliteration. http://hamrobuffalo.com

Preloader installed on our home page

May 3, 2011GeorgeMay, 2011, Miscellaneous0 Comment

A preloader certainly makes a site more user-friendly to those with slower connections. I made this custom loader.swf a separate file from the main flash video, and gave it a transparent background by using the “wmode value=transparent” parameter setting for the flash object. I used our logo design with one of the bottom bars as […]

Customized WordPress loop.php to shrink or eliminate tags

Apr 27, 2011GeorgeApril, 2011, Custom web components, Miscellaneous1 Comment

It’s not always appropriate to display the information after each post, so with a little modification in loop.php in the current theme’s folder, that info can be shrunk to a less distracting size, or eliminated altogether. Even when it is deleted from the loop, the posts still bear the tags in their meta-data. I eliminated […]

Our studio is open and hungry for business!

Apr 25, 2011GeorgeApril, 2011, Miscellaneous0 Comment

Considering we are still new to the village of Hamburg and do not have any great advertising campaigns going on, we need your business!