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Using Imagecache for a theme's user-provided logo

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 23, 2010 - 10:06am
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Agaric considers it best practice (meaning we do it occasionally) to keep a logo (the user-uploaded logo), so that the site principal can have its logo swapped out by an administrator, and not only by a developer or themer. Practically, some designs will have the logo so integrated that it should not be swappable, but note that one additional advantage of having a clean and separate logo file is that people can swipe it and display their brand loyalty while linking to you. Or maybe add devil horns to it in MS Paint.

How make double rounded borders with CSS3 (and using an extra div)

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 21, 2010 - 6:57pm
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I couldn't find a way to do this in straight CSS3.

A light colored border, a white (transparent) space in between, and a blue background, all rounded.

Also, note that by using CSS3, we are oh-so-subtly telling Internet Explorer users (before IE9, anyway) that we don't care that the site doesn't look as pretty as it does to people sensible enough to use good web browsers.

First, let's get the extra HTML out of the way.

Editing and signing PDFs with free software on Mac OS X

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 19, 2010 - 12:23pm
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Snow Leopard's Preview can add text but it cannot add an image into a PDF document. I tried.

This free software can:

http://code.google.com/p/formulatepro/downloads/list

Once a PDF is opened in FormulatePro (yes it really is fully free and open source despite the name), go to File » Place Image...

Using Drush 3.1 by installing it in your local user directory

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 17, 2010 - 12:14pm
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The version of drush in Debian is way behind. Drush 3.1 has been out for a month, Drush reached stable 3.0 on April 23.

Stefan was unsympathetic:

That does not mean the package is ready. What the upstream authors consider stable and the Debian community considers stable might be different things, too. Quality is Debian's top priority not up to date software. In addition to that it will only get into the next stable distro and maybe into the backports repository. In that case we get the upgrade automatically.

Critical information to hold onto for your web site

Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on July 16, 2010 - 5:13pm
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1: The login to the domain registrars hosting your web site domain name (example.com)

2: The login to whereever DNS (domain name servers) are managed for these domains

3: The login to person@example.com e-mail address, and any e-mail address being used as the point of contact for any of these services.

4: The login to the website host.

These are things for which we really don't want a single point of failure.

Losing one's domain name is one of the most serious things that can happen to one's online presence.

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