The ramblings of a geek

If you have had problems with linear-gradient and rounded corners support in IE9, then you are probably aware there are several fixes available to make these two features work together, although should we really be having to do this in 2011? Come on Microsoft step up!

After looking at the options and reading an interesting thread here, my preferred fix is to use SVG to create a gradient and use background-image with a base64 encoded file. There is a nice little tool available that will do the hard work for you here:-

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/SVGGradientBackgroundMaker/Default.html

For those of you that don’t want to go to the bother rilling your own gradients, you can also use CSS3 PIE, which essentially does the same thing via a JS library.

Hope this helps!

I recently integrated the Facebook Like button into a client’s website (see here for more details on the like button) using XFBML to allow website visitors to also send a message along with their FB like. The message box however was cutoff inside my DIV due to overflow: hidden and also the message box was not ideally positioned.

I changed the CSS for the parent DIVs to overflow: visible and inserted the following CSS to overridew the standard facebook CSS selectors:

.fb_edge_widget_with_comment span.fb_edge_comment_widget {
    top: 120px !important;
    left: -215px !important;
}

Hope this helps some of you out that have been having a similar problem.

I’ve been running Ubuntu 8.04 for quite a while now, and thought it was about time I tried out a more recent LTS version of Ubuntu Server, so downloaded and installed 10.04 recently. First thing I found was that the screen console in VirtualBox was dog slow.

After a bit of digging I found out this was to do with running the 16 bit framebuffer driver, so all you need to do is blacklist it. The file you need to edit is here:-

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer.conf

just add the followin onto the end of the file:

blacklist vga16fb

Reboot and you should be fine.

Well, you would I was dead from the lack of activityon here, however I have been busily beavering away, albeit not on my blog!

I have a new flying job and I now work for Jet2 on the 737, based back in my home city of Newcastle. I have been busy  training for the past few months, so web design and all things tech related had to take a bit of a back seat. I am now busy working on a couple of new projects, one is an online appointment booking system for a physiotherapist, and the other is a website for a riding stable.

To change the account activation text that is sent to the user when he first registers, you need to go to the jSeblod field manager and edit the field “user construction email”, click on the EDITOR button and edit the message accordingly.

Note – Dont try to edit the en-GB.com_user.ini language file, as this is not used by jSeblod.