Unexpected Christmas Presents from Bloggers Dave Weiss and Debra Hamel Fri 26 Dec 08

Christmas morning while waiting for our girls to get up (Caitlin and Allison are in their 20's so no early morning risers here) I checked my email.   I was pleasantly surprised to see an email from Dave Weiss in response to a query I posted regarding styling author comments to make the stand out from the other comments.

I had previously done that by highlighting my comments with a light blue background and putting a logo on them.  However, I recently switched to TypePad Connect to have threaded comments and lost all author comment stylization.  I had tried a number of ways to re-format this to re-style them but was unsuccessful.  Dave's email gave me some tips and I was able to quickly make the changes needed.  Dave has indicated that he will make a blog post on this technique and I'll pass along the link when he does.

I also recently was upgraded by TypePad to their new platform and unfortunately this broke a hack that allowed me to quickly open a post for editing from a link on the post itself.  After again being unsuccessful in figuring this out I went to the original source of this hack and found a comment by Debra Hamel with the revised code needed and was quickly back in business.

Two nagging problems solved easily in one day - what great Christmas presents.  Thanks to Dave Weiss and Debra Hamel.

"Please can I open it??? 1197" photo by casch52