Ok, so I fought crowds the day after Thanksgiving from 4am until almost noon to get my Nintendo Wii. While eventually sitting on the floor inside a store playing Uno with other Wii hopefuls, I started thinking that it was not worth it. Boy was I wrong!
Wii is one of the coolest systems [...]

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Quick links is an interesting concept that can be very useful. It just so happens that Farcry is excellent at dynamically generating them.
First of all, the way I’m using quick links is I am putting a select box somewhere in the header. The user selects something from the dropdown and goes there [...]

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Here is a tutorial on how to enable Macros in Microsoft Excel.
Enable Macros in Excel

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Here’s a quick script that I use in a lot of header files to detect the user’s browser. else represents Firefox in most cases.
<cfif Trim(ListGetAt(CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT, 2, “;”)) EQ “MSIE 6.0″>
<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”css/main_IE6.css” media=”screen” />
<cfelseif Trim(ListGetAT(CGI.HTTP_USER_AGENT, 2, “;”)) EQ “MSIE 7.0″>
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Sometimes I see a CSS related display issue on the farcry login page. This primarily only happens in FireFox for me. There are 2 ways to fix this:
1) add a height property to #login inside the main.css file
2) add
<h3>
<img src=”images/powered_by_farcry_watermark.gif” />
Tell it to someone who cares
</h3>
right after the ending fieldset tag in the [...]

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I truly thought this project would be the end of me. The project was to create a CSS menu that pops up instead of down. Simple enough. However, when the user clicked on a child item, that menu tree had to stay open. If you’re at all familiar with CSS menus [...]

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I have a project in farcry that requires the site including the entire menu tree be available in English and French. I started looking at this and realized that I had no clue how to accomplish this. So, here’s what I did.
First, I created the site tree in English using Quick [...]

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