Character-Code.com

May 28, 2014

A way to add on some nice icons to a page without images is to use ascii characters. These characters are essentially the same as text, so their size can be changed as much as you like without increasing the weight of the page or get degraded. If you’re anything like me, you’re very familiar with the double charat “»”, but there are so many more arrows and useful shapes you can use. Finding a full list of all the ascii codes available can be a little tricky, so I was very happy to come across character-code.com

This site has tons of great symbols you can take and use on your website without the muss and fuss of opening your graphics editing program 🙂

Why No Padlock?

Apr 3, 2014

Anyone whose dealt with secure pages before has undoubtedly run into the issue of having insecure items on the page that compromise the security. I have this issue pretty much every time I write a new secure page ._.

The only way to solve it is to track down all the little insecure elements and change them to a relative link. Sometime it can be really frustrating hounding through the code in search of the only little JPG that doesn’t want to play ball. That’s why I was really happy to come upon the “Why no Padlock” service today 🙂 It’s pretty simple, al you have to do is put in the URL of your secure-to-be page and it will list out all of the insecure items for you! It’s like magic 😀 Or, not so much…but it’s definitely wort a bookmark 🙂

http://www.whynopadlock.com/

WordPress – Custom length excerpt

Feb 26, 2014

If you ever need a custom length excerpt in your wordpress site, and want to leave the excerpt length alone for the rest of the site, you can use wp_trim_words on the content to pull out exactly how many words you want the excerpt to be.

In the following example I made a 10 words excerpt, but you can make it any length you want by changing the number.

<?php echo wp_trim_words(get_the_content(), 10); ?>

Strip links in HTML using Dreamweaver

Feb 17, 2014

I was putting together some “preview” HTML pages and needed to make sure the links didn’t go anywhere odd. So I found out how to quickly strip out all the links from an HTML document using Dreamweaver’s regular expressions and find and replace.

It’s pretty easy, just put this in the find field:

and this in the replace:

And make sure to select “Use regular expression,” just like this:

Hey death, Moshimo

Feb 14, 2014

A friend hooked me up with a way to play Japanese games, it’s pretty nice Japanese practice 🙂 The instructions are over here.

I started off with a game called “Hey death, Moshimo” it’s a free download based on RPG Maker. So you’ll need both the game and RPG Maker VX Ace RTP to play.

The game is a little weird, but I liked it a lot. You start out in a room, and you really don’t go anywhere else. You can run around and clicking on different objects in the room and almost immediately you’ll get and “ending” but you’ll be able to start where you left off, which is kinda unique.

Spoilers after this!

After a while a diary showed up after I answered the phone. It was about a girl (akari I’m assuming) Who was waiting for mike-san. They were planning to get together for their 6th year anniversary, but mike-san got busy with work and had to postpone it. The last entry describers her as being happy that his plane will be arriving tomorrow and she’ll go pick him up.

That will give you an ending, and starting after that the TV will flash white. If you go up to the TV it will tell you a news report, that a girl was ran over by a car today and died in a hospital that afternoon. It then tells you that news report is a month old, and you get another ending.

Then when you start up again you’ll hear a pounding at the door, lave the room and a scary ghost appears!! And it will give you three options: deny that it exists; embrace it; or search the room. The last one is a little odd…but I choose to embrace the monster. Then there’s a sweet little cut scene and the evil monster turns into a cute girl. Happy end, awww 🙂