Jim Zinger was actively involved within the local art community and gradually became widely recognized as a gifted artist, illustrating books and teaching manuals. His work has been the subject of many articles, reviews and newspaper articles throughout North America, where his work has been shown in countless exhibitions and galleries.  He now enjoys international recognition, with his art being held in private and public collections worldwide.

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Quick n’ Simple.  Check it:

function strtoslug($str) {
	$str = strtolower(trim($str));
	$str = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9-]/', '-', $str);
	$str = preg_replace('/-+/', "-", $str);
	return $str;
}

Winexpert is the world’s largest manufacturer of consumer winemaking products. Check out their new site here: http://www.winexpert.com

Beyond The Grape is a Winexpert Retailer. Visit their new site: http://www.beyondthegrape.com

“At Rocking R Ranch, Horses and Boarding are our specialty and priority. We offer a safe, quite and convenient facility that is family oriented, with a friendly atmosphere. If you are looking for a peaceful and quiet setting to enjoy your horse and get away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life Rocking R Ranch is the place you’re looking for.”

Check it out: http://www.rockingrranch.ca

I’ve created a  climbing blog to keep track of what I’m up to in the rock climbing world.  I basically need something for myself to remember what I have done and when, so this is it.  Take a look, follow if you wish.

You can find it here:  http://climbing.danbeland.com/

IE6 seems to double it’s margins on floated elements… Why? Who cares… Here’s how you fix it!

Just add display: inline; to the floated element!

I found it here: http://www.jaymeblackmon.com/ie6-double-margin-bug-fix

When all else fails and your Windows network just won’t behave, nuke it!

Open up the Console (Start -> Run: cmd [Enter]) and issue the following 2 commands.

Reset WINSOCK entries to installation defaults:

netsh winsock reset catalog

Reset TCP/IP stack to installation defaults:

netsh int ip reset [log_file_name]

Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft have come together in an attempt to reduce duplicate content in SERPs due to multiple URLs pointing to the same content.  The new tag named the ‘Canonical Tag’ allows you to define what the real address of a page should be by providing a META TAG in the HEAD section of a web page.

For example, say you are selling an item which belongs to several categories.
You may have all the following URLs pointing to the same content:

http://www.example.com/climbing-gear/black-diamond-headlamp
http://www.example.com/camping-gear/black-diamond-headlamp
http://www.example.com/products/black-diamond-headlamp

Google and other search engines don’t like this because they consider each page to be unique thus making it seem like you have duplicate content (which is bad!).

The Canonical Tag allows us to specify which page should be used as the proper URL in Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft’s SERPs.

Simply add this tag to the HEAD section of each of the category pages that point to “headlamp”:

<link rel=”canonical” href=”http://www.example.com/products/black-diamond-headlamp” />

For further information check out the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog.

So you’ve put together a CSS template with a body background color. We’ll use #4C4C4C. Your CSS template contains a content area that is a different color. We’ll use #000000. In simple form that looks like this:

body {
    background-color: #4C4C4C;
}
#content {
    width: 700px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    background-color:#000000;
    color: #FFFFFF;
}

Now if your content area is black, wouldn’t it be nice to edit your content in TinyMCE on a black background? Assuming you have TinyMCE importing your sites stylesheet, here is the trick:

* .mceContentBody {
    background: #000000;
}

That’s it!  Super easy.  If you have a better way of doing this feel free to comment.

This is a quick and easy trick/fix for correcting the css min-height problem in IE6.  It is pure CSS and does not require any additional div’s.  Here’s the code:

selector {
  min-height:500px;
  height:auto !important;
  height:500px;
}

That’s it! This trick should be compatible with: IE6, IE7, Mozilla/Firefox/Gecko, Opera 7.x+, Safari1.2

This is not compatible with IE5.5, but with less than 0.01% of my visitors using it I am not overly concerned about implementing this fix on most sites.

You can view Dustin Diaz’s original article here.