by WebKeyDesign | Aug 23, 2005 | WebKeyDesign
I finally got around to widening the theme design for WebKeyDesign. It is now 768 pixels wide for the main content and sidebar. If you have never read the short description in the Site Map, you might not know that the WordPress theme is actually John Wrana’s Relaxation Theme.
Relaxation is based on the Kubrick Theme, but is somewhat less complicated and easier to load. I’ve changed some of the CSS, so it is not an exact implementation of Relaxation, and now that it is 54 pixels wider it presents a lot more text horizontally.
A theme that is also progressing nicely is Blix, which has more of a frost white look.
Speaking of theme design… check out A List Apart’s new look.
by WebKeyDesign | Aug 22, 2005 | Firefox
Here is another good tip for FireFox. Type in about:cache as the URI in Firefox or Mozilla and you will get a summary screen with options to list what is in disk cache and what is in your memory cache.
by WebKeyDesign | Aug 22, 2005 | Mac OS X
If you bought OS X Tiger thinking that Apple’s new Quartz 2D Extreme would accelerate your Powerbook, you were surely disappointed when you found out that Apple had shipped Tiger with Quartz 2D Extreme disabled!
Perhaps some day in a future 10.4 update Apple will eventually enable it, but for now, even if I enable it, the accelerated video only lasts a few minutes and then my Powerbook locks up solid. However, I did try a different form of video acceleration that does work. If you have an ATI video card, you can try overclocking it with ATIcceleratorII.
I have tried it on both my Powerbook and G4 desktop and the results are very stable and the boosted video speed helps with almost every application, including the Mac OS X Finder, which is very much needed.
Since this is a form of overclocking, you will want to make sure that you overclock only in small increments and that your computer is adequately cooled and not operating in high-temperature environment.
ATIcceleratorII can adjust both video memory and gpu speeds. You can find multiple user reports on Xlr8yourmac.com.
by WebKeyDesign | Aug 19, 2005 | WordPress
I was looking through AWStats and seeing quite a few requests for https://www.webkeydesign.com/index.rdf which is resulting in 404 Page Not Found errors as I do not have this file and WordPress does not create the RSS feeds at this location. The solution is of course to either create the index.rdf file or simply redirect it.
In cPanel you simply use the Redirects panel to have any url for your site redirect to another page. In this case the redirect ends up going to www.webkeydesign.com/feed/, which is where I actually have RSS feeds for the site.
There is some debate as to why index.rdf is being searched in the first place, but the concensus is that GoogleBot may be defaulting to this location for various sites simply looking for RSS feeds.
by WebKeyDesign | Aug 19, 2005 | Firefox
After a few days of running Deer Park Alpha 2, it seems stability is improving very well and I have not had any severe browser crashes as of late. In fact the past three days have been very smooth. This morning, I’m running Build 2005-08-18 which registers as Firefox 1.6a. Since the version went up to 1.6, most extensions will disable by default. I would not try running with any themes yet, as scrollbars were still a problem this week with even the Qute theme.
If you must have your extensions back, there is a way to enable them back. On Windows, go to
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Application Data\
Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\********.default\extensions\
The .default folder will be named differently for every setup. Under here though you will find all your extensions, but the directories will not match the extension name. You will have to open the install.rdf file to see what extension it is. While in the install.rdf, you will find a max version string setting, you can just change this to 1.6 and your extension should now work in Deer Park… that is unless it is really not compatible, in that case you will have to change the install.rdf back to the original max version string.
