The Blog of Adam Patten

Yesterday I discovered an interesting little feature of WordPress, unfiltered HTML. Certain users do not have the ability to create/edit post/pages with unfiltered HTML. For security reasons, I would assume, WordPress by default does not allow any users besides an admin or editor to enter unfiltered HTML. This caused a problem for me when I created some pages on a site I was working on with id and class attributes included in my markup. Everything worked fine after I added all the content, but then I had a writer updating the content and after she was done, bam! all those id and class attributes were gone! Now I had a bunch of broken anchor links and un-styled elements. Read the rest of this entry »

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I’m really curious as to how Yahoo! decides when to include a website in their search results. I have had this website up and running since early February and submitted it 3 times (about a month apart) to be included in Yahoo!’s search results, yet until this week I have been omitted from Yahoo!’s results. Granted there isn’t much content on this site and I don’t post very often, but I don’t understand why Yahoo! decided to shun my site. Google had me listed within the first week and MSN had me up within a reasonable amount of time. I can only guess the referring links from Joey and Jon (looks like Jon removed the link, but Google Analytics tells me there was one at one point) are what made Yahoo! finally deem me worthy to grace their results. Seems to me that if a site owner submits their site and there is a decent amount unique content there they shouldn’t need to have referring links to be listed. If I had any readers on this blog, this is the point where I would pose them with the question “Any ideas on why Yahoo! takes so long to include a site in it’s listings?” So let those comments roll in!

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I just took the The Web Design Survey, 2007 over at A List Apart and I am interested to see how the results turn out when they are published sometime after May 22, 2007. If you are a person who has a hand in making websites I encourage you to take the survey as well.

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So I’ve come a cross a few cool javascript bookmarklets and I’ve been wanting to write some myself. Problem is, I can’t think of any practical uses off the top of my head (I’m sure I could find plenty if I really thought about it) and I’m short on time. Well John Gruber created a perl script that makes bookmarklets from javascript code and Kenny ported it to a textmate command. Great! They take away my no time excuse by making them even easier to create, thanks a lot guys! Hopefully this will light the fire under my ass to start writing some simple javascript and focus on learning the basics.

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A few people at work have come across the following error message when using Dreamweaver.

While executing onLoad in PasteFireworksHTML.htm, a JavaScript error occurred.

If you are also receiving this error message fear not, Isaac Schlueter has already done all the dirty work and figured it out for you.

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