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The following is a list of articles tagged 'eadn'.

Blocking Spam Comments Using a Honey Pot

Posted by Stoo on 1st November 2009

Everyone who uses the internet is familiar with spam and the problems it causes. Most people's familiarity is through its intrusion on email, and I've already outlined how I use gmail to block email spam. Since running this site I've had to deal with a lot of comment spam. It goes in phases but I receive about 2–3 spam comments per week and sometimes as much as 20. And this is a low traffic site. My initial strategy was to delete spam comments as they appear. I receive a notification... more »

Order, Inheritance and Specificity in CSS

Posted by Stoo on 19th September 2009

Some quick notes on an easily misunderstood area of CSS. One thing to remember with CSS is the order statements appear in the stylesheet is important along with inheritance and specificity. So if you have the following: div { background-color: red; } ... snip ... div { background-color: green; } The green background will be applied. This is also true across multiple stylesheets. Rules from stylesheets linked later in the HTML will take precedence over stylesheets appearing earlier... more »