Wow, this was difficult to figure out. After beating my head against the desk several times over the course of nearly 2 hours, I finally stumbled upon it. Here are the issues. The first problem was I couldn’t get the contents in it to stretch. The second problem was the spacing between the ListBoxItems...
Oct
30
I attended a webinar yesterday by MarketingProfs about copywriting for the web. Here are the top 10 tips for making sure your copy help you meet the goals of your site: Love the inverted pyramid method. Give the conclusion first, supporting info second and background/technical details last. Cut unnecessary...
Oct
28
I know, it is a bit ridiculous that I haven’t designed my own theme for my blog. I’ll get to it eventually after this blog has some traction and I have more than a small handful of posts. For now, though a canned theme will do and if you’re interested in seeing some other Graffiti blogs...
Oct
28
The Content Presenter was one of the more confusing things in Silverlight when I was first learning it because you can’t style it the way you would normally think to. The place you run into the Content Presenter most often at first is when creating custom buttons. You design this great looking button...
Nov
07
To have an ASP.NET site's favicon change dynamically based on the theme currently selected, first put a favicon.ico file in each of the App_Themes/"ThemeName"/Images directories. Then add a literal control to the <Head> of the masterpage: 1: < head > 2: < asp:Literal ID ="FavIconLink"...
Sep
25
One of my web designs called for me to make several content objects with rounded corners fill the available space left after a fixed-width DIV with an ad in it was floated to the right. CSharpFeeds.com demonstrates the end result. I set out to do this using just CSS, but after searching all over the...
Aug
29
Pixlr Beta probably isn't a replacement to Photoshop, but if you need a quick and easy web-based image editor for modifying low resolution images, give Pixlr a try. It has a surprising amount of features and an interface similar to Photoshop....