As I mentioned before, I’ve been very busy and unable to work on my plugin “Ultimate Category Excluder.”  Awesomely enough, Michael Clark of PlanetMike.com has offered to take over development, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.  I had a lot of plans for UCE, but I just don’t have the time to pursue them (that and I’ve started to switch over to ExpressionEngine, but that’s a story for another day).  I’ve taken down my page for the plugin, and anyone looking for information should refer to Mike’s page.

So apparently, I haven’t posted in close to 6 months…whoops.

Anyways, I’ve been playing around with Tumblr recently and have created my own tumblelog: Phewse. This is more the style I like to post things—a collection of a bunch of short entries/links—so we’ll see how it goes. If I like it, I might go ahead and transition to only using that (although I barely use fidgeting.net, anyways). First task is creating my own Tumblr template, so watch for updates in that department.

Oh, and I’ve been receiving lots of email about Ultimate Category Excluder, and apparently it doesn’t play nicely with WP2.2. I don’t really have any time to devote to improving it, so if someone else wants to take over, let me know.

So, you’ve got all these great Javascript effects on your website. Hidden information magically appears after clicking a link, and all is good. But what if someone that doesn’t have Javascript comes to your site? If your information is being initially hidden by CSS, you’re doing it all wrong.

Instead, the best way is to have everything visible by default in your CSS file and use Javascript to “unhide” it. To illustrate this concept, I’m going to go through a quick example utilizing the excellent jQuery.

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