Rants & Raves

September 21, 2001 Where's Pirillo?

That Chris Pirillo seems to show up in the oddest places: inside the fridge, in the Windows folder of Leo' Bootcamp computer, and now in the netcam booth.

It's "Where's Pirillo?" (not Waldo)

A couple months ago I was looking at the TSS message boards and someone asked how some web sites (like TechTV) do the custom scrollbar colors. As with many of the questions that I try to answer there, I didn't know the answer at the time, but was able to find it by searching the Internet. I then, of course had to do this for my own site. But it was tedious because you have to find the hexadecimal numbers for seven different parts of the scrollbar. This meant going back and forth with a graphics program and a webpage editor. I found a tool on the web that would generate the code for you, but only for a small number of colors. So I set out to see if I could program a web page tool to do it. A Javascript book and a DHTML book later, and after lots of hair-pulling, I finally finished it: Custom Scrollbar Color Tool. I'm surprized that I actually got it to work, being a something Javascript newbie.

Oh man, oh man. I just read Megan's article about dead links on the TechTV website: Dish: Bad Links They Are a Comin'. She warns that many of the articles on the site have been moved, which means that I have a LOT of links to fix on this site (90 on the very popular episode links page alone. I don't even want to think about how many in this Rants & Raves section. I've got five done so far). It's going to be a looooooooong weekend. On the bright side, she linked to my site in the article. Yay! (but I'm still not on the fan site list, oh well.)

Posted by Christy on September 21, 2001 10:04 PM

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