August 11th, 2011

A friend of mine recently had a problem with his ebay store. Despite his stellar ratings and history, his items all of a sudden stopped allowing people to buy. When people would try to "buy it now", it would show the following error:

Transaction Blocked
We're sorry, but the seller of this item is unable to receive funds at this time.

After a while of trying to figure out just what he could have done wrong, he called Ebay. To Ebay's credit, they were able to fix it (after being on hold a long time). It was apparently a bug that was Ebay's fault. My friend then asked if there was any compensation for the lost sales this bug cost, and they transferred him to the department that apparently takes care of that. Unfortunately he was hung up on after being on hold a long time.

I hope this helps other honest Ebay sellers out there who have run into this issue.

April 1st, 2011

Here's a couple lines of css you should remember to put in every time you use inline-block (if you want your content to look right in IE6+7 that is):

display: inline-block;
*display: inline;
*zoom: 1;

The first line is your important line of CSS (the only line you'd need in a perfect world). The second sets display to inline for IE6+7 (with the * hack). The third line sets the element's "hasLayout" to true, which you can't simply set by saying "hasLayout: true;" unfortunately.

Just remember this every time you use inline-block and you're set!

August 24th, 2010

I found these on the internet a while ago, and I thought I'd post them so people could get a sneak peek.

I think This is where I heard about them and this is where I found them.

Here is the official Tron:Legacy website, where I think you can listen to them also.

November 20th, 2009

Want an easy way to make rounded corners using only CSS, like the navigation on this site (as of 11/20/09)? No prob! Just use the following code:

#example {
border-radius: 0.4em;
-moz-border-radius: 0.4em;
-webkit-border-radius: 0.4em;
}

Change the 0.4em to whatever looks good.

The first line is a new option in CSS3 that gives rounded borders. Unfortunately, most current browsers don't support it yet. The second line tells Mozilla browsers (like Firefox) to render a curved corner. The third line does like-wise for Safari and Chrome.

Unfortunately, Internet Explorer does not support this yet. But it looks like IE9 will. The future of web design is looking bright! Or at least really curvy.

November 8th, 2009

Hi! I'm Rowland Rose and this is my web site. Here you will find info on all the projects I've been involved in over the years. This site will serve as my online portfolio and personal blog. If you are interested in hiring a web designer/developer who knows Flash, check out my projects or learn more about me.