How to create a CSS rollover effect for buttons

On June 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

.buttons a { display: block; width: 146px; height: 77px; background: transparent url(http://www.lauragentry.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/buttons.png) no-repeat; text-decoration:none; border:0; margin-top:20px; } .buttons a:hover { background-position: -153px 0; }

I’ve decided to start using this space more for keeping track of random things I learn that I want to make a record of. I [...]

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WordPress Plugin: Post XML for Simpleviewer Gallery

On April 21, 2010 · 2 Comments

Update 4/4/2011: This plugin does not currently work with WordPress 3.0+ and, due to time constraints, I may have to deprecate it entirely.

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After writing my first WordPress plugin (which creates an XML file of your blog using every post’s title, excerpt, permalink and custom fields), I started getting several requests from people [...]

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Mapping the manhunt

On December 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

After four Lakewood police officers were shot at a Forza coffee shop in Parkland on Sunday, November 29, police from Seattle and Pierce County scoured the region for the suspect, Maurice Clemmons. During the 40 or so hours following the crime, there was a dizzying amount of police activity in the region, including a failed [...]

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How to post iPhone voice memos to Twitter

On November 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I recently found myself wanting to tweet a message with audio I captured from my iPhone voice memo app but discovered there isn’t an app that does that (yet). There are a couple of apps out there like TweetMic that you can use to capture audio and tweet, but I really like the ease of [...]

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