Life @ High Road Communications

Web-related news from my job at iStudio High Road Communications

Quick fix for “Simple Feed List” WordPress plugin

I came across a bug today with a RSS feed plugin we use for one of our WordPress-powered client sites. The bug is with Simple Feed List (v 1.4,  by David Artiss), and occurs when the feed link supplied  is either dead or unreachable. When either one of these two cases occur, the plugin fails [...]

Stopping a YouTube video after closing the overlay it’s in with jQuery Tools

Now there’s a long-winded title for you!
Yes, I’m having problems (IE-specific) when closing an overlay that contains a YouTube video – the movie just keeps on playing in the “background”.
My current setup was pretty simple – basically just pasting the embed code from YouTube into a <div> element that I had designated as being the [...]

Localhost bug with the ShareThis social bookmarking tool

Yesterday afternoon, while adding a social bookmarking tool from ShareThis, we came across the following JavaScript error that just wouldn’t go away, even though we were using the same code snippet as is shown on the ShareThis example pages.
SHARETHIS is null
I don’t know how many different things we tried to get it to work, but [...]

Server errors with @import from within a style sheet

Came across this one yesterday after we launched a new Sitefinity-powered Web site for a client of ours. We were getting all sorts of HTTP Error 400 Bad Request errors, and they all had to do with style sheets. The site appeared fine in all browsers we tested in, so it was a bit puzzling why [...]

A small fix for Stu Nicholl’s drop down menu solution for IE6

I’m currently working on an template slice of a micro-site for one of our major clients and came across an annoying bug when attempting to implement Stu Nicholl’s CSS-only drop down menu solution for IE6. For some reason, any menu item that was in a ‘lit’ state would not display it’s drop down menu on [...]

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