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Jul

2009

AddThis Angst (not too much, though)

Written By: EMG
Posted On: Jul 19, 2009
Filed Under: Administration, On the Web Development Front, On the WordPress Front

Tagged With: AddThis, administrative, code validation, On the WordPress Front

So uhmmm… whooops?

EDIT: Justin Thorp from the AddThis team directly replied to this post in a comment and said that the team is looking into resolving both issues! Thank you, Justin!

The newer version of the WordPress-specific AddThis coding (the one you can manually add to your posts that uses the php echo?) does NOT validate through W3C. It WORKS, but because of the ampersand and perhaps something else, W3C is going bonkers over it, offering up anywhere between 5 to 9 errors on account of it.

So if you visit the blog and validate it and see a million AddThis validation errors? That’s why.

And oh yes, the ‘Print’ functionality does not work for a single post if you have the AddThis coding enabled on say your main blog page where it appears multiple times – once on each post.

Instead of printing that one post, it will print the entire page – whooops!

I hope AddThis fixes that soon!

~ EMG

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17

Jul

2009

Code and Design: My Style, My Way

Written By: EMG
Posted On: Jul 17, 2009
Filed Under: In My Mind, In the Studio, On the Web Design Front, On the WordPress Front

Tagged With: accessibility, clean coding, CSS, my style, On the WordPress Front, simple and clean, squared corners, usability

In some ways, Emotiomental Graffiti doesn’t look like much.

To be sure, it really isn’t all that complicated of a website compared to a lot of larger, more media-heavy, and more complex sites.

Running off of the (absolutely kick ASS) WordPress application (version 2.8), Emotiomental Graffiti is, for the most part, a smorgasbord of valid XHTML Strict coding (my work), WP-specific PHP hooks (their work; I just hitched it all together), and a crapload of CSS (my work).

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