Archive for January, 2008

Ginette Genereux

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Last year I created a website for Ginette Genereux – she is a Canadian country singer based here in Langley BC. I quickly found out what a nice,down to earth and fun person she is! I had a really great time working with her! You can visit her completed website here: http://www.ginettegenereux.com/
A few days ago [...]

Spring is Coming!

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

A Picture of my daffodils from last year
I, like many garden enthusiast are enjoying this crisp sunny spell in the Vancouver area. The sunshine is making me itch to get outside and into the garden! Alas with the frozen ground there is nothing anyone can do…
However, I have been admiring the bravery of my little [...]

Create 2 stylesheets (IE & Firefox) in Wordpress

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

It took me a couple of tries but I finally figured out how to create two stylesheets using wordpress.

Duplicate style.css 
Rename the copy to ie7.css (or whatever you would like to call it)
Go to the Header Page of your theme.
Find this code:
<style type=”text/css” media=”screen”> @import
url (<?php bloginfo(’stylesheet_url’); ?>);
</style>
delete this and replace with:
<![if IE]><link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css”
href=”http://blog.com/wp-content/themes/simpla/ie.css” mce_href=”http://blog.com/wp-content/themes/simpla/ie.css”>
<![endif]>  
<![if [...]

New Year – New Webgarden Blog

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Well, with the new year, always comes change, and at webgarden.ca we are excited to announce that we are implementing some changes to our blog!
The webgarden blog is expanding it’s topics to not only include information about decorating for the web -  but also, decorating for your life! We are going to be writing articles about beauty [...]

Step 3 -Choosing a layout: Part3

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

The last but not least, is three column navigation. The typical three column layout has a wide center surrounded by  left and right narrow columns. Three column layouts can easily appear cluttered – so white space is essential! Three column layouts are used for sites that have tons of navigation, short bits of content (such as [...]

Step 3 -Choosing a layout: Part2

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

The opposite to left column navigation, would be (of course) right column navigation. Surprisingly there are not many sites with right column navigation. It is quite easy to find sites that use the right hand column for sub-navigation, or advertising but not for the main navigation.
I am not sure why there aren’t more sites that [...]