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Handy References for horizontal list, colors, and moving WP to a new server

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I always tell my kids that the most important thing to know is how to find answers to the stuff you don’t know.  I would add that it is also helpful to know where to find references to the things you know, but don’t need to memorize.

Here are some of my handy references:

For how to make a horizontal list (I can never keep this nugget in my brain)

http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/horizontal01.htm

For color help:

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

For MySQL help when moving a site to a new domain/server:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-move-wordpress-blog-to-new-domain-or-location/

Translate a pdf using Google Translate

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My Dad just came back from wcabq (WordCamp Albuquerque) and he and I are totally geeking out.  He discovered that you can use Google Translate to translate a PDF.  Now, in all fairness, this is not a new concept, but it is new to me, so I am excited.

I had some great conversations at WordCamp about Spanish/English websites so this is really just one more step toward a completely bilingual site.  Maybe I will get into that in a later post.  In the meantime, here is how you use Google Translate  to translate a pdf:

1.  Upload your pdf to the internet somewhere, I uploaded mine to the Media Library here on my site.

2.  Go to Google Translate

2.  Put the url for your document in the google translate box on the left and it will show up on the translated side on the right as a link.

4.  Click on the link in the right side box and Google will give you the translation.

 

 

Border-radius, WordPress, and IE

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I just spent the last I-won’t-even-tell-you-how-many hours trying to figure out why all the google results on border-radius were not working for me.  Now suddenly it works.  So here is my process for the next time I try to use border-radius.

  1. Download the stuff from css3pie.com
  2. Upload files to the root.  I saw references all over the place that the PIE.htc needed to be in the theme directory, that didn’t work for me.  It is in the root, hence the php bloginfo(‘url’) bit in the next bullet.
  3. Put this code in the header.php.  Replace the elements with yours #whatever or .whatever.  Now here is the thing, there was an indent before #home1 and it was keeping #home1 from getting the rounded corner, even though the rest of them were working. 
    • <code><style type="text/css">
#home1, #home2, #home3, #home4,
#home4 .widget, #home5 .widget, #home6 .widget,
#home5, #home6, #supplementary.two { behavior:url(<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/PIE.htc); }</code>
</style>
  4. Put this in your stylesheet, change the px amount and background to whatever you want:

    background: #ccc;
    -webkit-border-radius: 8px;
    -moz-border-radius: 8px;
    border-radius: 8px;

Seems crazy that the last I-won’t-even-tell-you-how-many-hours comes down to 4 bullet points, but such is the web.