Before anything, I would like to thank everybody who’s using my themes. I was checking the stats and the 2000 downloads barrier has been broken.

And now, into the freebie.

Fluid Blogging is a very light weight theme, with less than 36KB. It uses almost no images and is fully optimized to make your blog fly like the wind. Read More »

True Blood - Image credit: HBO

I’m not much of a TV guy, since pretty much everything out there usually just sucks.

Broadcast free TV treats you like a moron, with their puritan standards and stuff. Cable gives you tons of movies you’ve seen 3856 times in uncountable reruns.

I think the last time I followed something on cable was Californication and, I have to admit, they’re accomplishing to maintain the interest of the public.

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled on a lot of blogs talking about True Blood as the new sensation. Curiosity killed the cat and I gave the show a chance.

I must say it kept me on the edge of my seat since the opening credits.

Anna Paquin is a very good actress, her role as a naive girl with telepathic skills (she can listen to people’s thoughts) who gradually shows she is not that naive at all, combined with her wardrobe full of short shorts and dresses is a winner.

In case you don’t know, True Blood is about vampires living among humans after the Japaneses have invented an artificial blood that allows them not to kill anymore.

Forget what you know about vampires, mirror, crosses, garlic and all that crap you’ve seen in every vampire movie since Christopher Lee.

The only rule that’s still going is the one that says they cannot do their business on daylight.

Humans seem to be irresistibly attracted to the dark beings, and a lot of girls carry teeth marks on their necks an groins (it seems the veins down there are very juicy).

This rule must have come from Interview With the Vampire, since you can be bitten by a vampire and keep taking a normal life, as long as he doesn’t kill you, of course, and you don’t drink from his blood.

Combine all this with a lot of cursing, sex and nude scenes and you have the best series of the year.

Photo credit: NBC

So I missed My Own Worst Enemy premiere, which aired tonight (I didn’t go to sleep yet) on NBC.

I was pretty curious to see how is Christian Slater on the role of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde kind of character.

I think Slater got totally lost after a couple of good performances. I miss movies like True Romance and Interview With the Vampire. He used to be one of my favorite actors those days but, all of the sudden, he began to make one bad movie after another.

The last time I gave one of his movies a try it was a complete waste of time and money. I couldn’t watch even half an hour, so bad it was.

I hope some friend of mine has taped the first episode of the series, according to Wired, it was at least quite good.

Yes, I know people who still own VCRs .

I’m working on a fluid width WordPress theme for the first time. As you all must know, fluid width is cool because it fits all screen resolutions.

With monitor screens every time bigger, it really makes no sense to waste screen real estate. But, and there’s always a but, the problem is that some people still insist on using lower resolutions. Believe it or not, some still use 800×600 on their desktops.

Even if this is not a big deal, every day more people use small screen devices to web surfing.

To avoid a weird looking on lower resolutions, it’s always a good practice to establish a minimum width to your theme.

Firefox and most modern browsers accept min-width statement on CSS, the problem is Internet Explorer 6 and bellow don’t.

The best way I found to solve this, after a lot of try and error, was something that Microsoft itself invented, called “expression”.

It can only be used on your major div, the one that embraces the whole layout. It usually comes right bellow “body” tag. If you try it on inner divs, Internet Explorer will simply freeze.

That been said, let’s go into the coding stuff. Locate your major div, “wrapper”, in this example. You’ll probably find something like this:

#wrapper {width: 96%;}

To accomplish min-width on IE, let’s add some code:

#wrapper {width:96%; width: expression( document.body.clientWidth < 971 ? "970px" : "96%" );min-width:970px;}

You can change it to whatever min-width you want, I think the code is pretty self-explanatory.

Inspired on Wired Magazine look, Clean News is a theme with a large content area, but it also has a wide sidebar that allows to display even a 300px width ad.

Home and single sidebars are independent, both widgetized, so you can easily choose what and where to display. Read More »

I had to redirect about 170 URLs from a WordPress hosted blog to another. It was out of the question to do it on a one by one basis.

After a long try and error, I finally found what I needed:

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
# END WordPress

It works like a charm. All URLs from your old domain will be redirected to the new one, keeping links working and, most important, telling Google that your blog has permanently changed its address.

Don’t forget that 301 means permanent, like forever. Google may, and will penalize your domain if you ever change it back to what it was.

Where are the marines when you need them? Good times when Rambo would kick the crap out of these guys with one hand tied behind his back.

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