phil ringnalda

Since my Big Blog Tool blog did the work, I’ll let it do the talking, too.

Having finally gotten my sorted-in-update-order dropdown-list blogroll in fairly stable condition, with code that I’m only somewhat ashamed of, I could use a few friendly beta testers with PHP weblogs who would be willing to try out my tutorial on how to it.

I do things like my remote dotcomments hack or the archive script generator just as quick ways to solve some problem that’s bothering somebody, and to maybe become a slightly less amateur amateur programmer along the way. I expect that they’ll be used by the person I wrote them for, and maybe a couple of […]

Since I’ve seen a couple of mentions lately of the problems associated with posting a <textarea> in a Blogger post, I thought I’d post my solution: write the <textarea> in javascript. The problem: when you try to edit a post which contains a <textarea>, and thus also a </textarea>, the <textarea> in the Blogger interface […]

I just changed the format of my comment links to make them accessible without Javascript. Why? Two reasons. First, accessibility: my comments are now available to people using text browsers like Lynx, screen readers, or even—God forbid—people with Javascript turned off. Second, functionality: now my links behave like links: if you shift-click or right-click and […]

If you use Javascript to include your archive links in the main page and archive pages, but would like to have the dates a little more customized, or you would like to limit the amount of space the links use, try my new Blogger archive script generator. You have the choice of listing links in […]

In a post at least in part inspired by Victor‘s self-serving (just kidding) experiment in influencing Google’s ranking of his company, Stand Out Training, who offer the best Dreamweaver training in Melbourne, via weblog links, Burningbird got me thinking about the Google-effects of archive frequency. Suppose you have an outstanding month, where one week Dave […]

Guardian on Blogger Pro : Still to come are much-requested features such as built-in commenting – through which readers can leave their comments Well, I was delighted to see that comments were not on the list of “coming soon” features on the Pro page. Not only do I not want to see my friends in […]

While right-click BlogThis is still a bit of a sore spot for me, a question in the BlogThis Howto forum (for which the questioner owes me $10) made me realize that there is one advantage to hosting the script locally: you can have as many different custom BlogThis context menus as you like. I use […]

Once again I have to disagree with Ben Sullivan: Zaxer is not competing head-to-head with Movable Knife, HiFi Slicemup, Sliver, and Slash in a zero-sum game. They meet different needs for different people, or even for the same people: I’ve seen zarphs that use Zaxer for some content, and slice other things with Movable Knife […]