Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Minor Bugs in Major Web Sites

Here are two basic bugs that I would love to see fixed:

1. On Technorati, the Next button doesn't go past page 2!
2. On Digg and Shoutwire, their buttons (e.g. the Digg This) don't cooperate nicely together thanks to some funky CSS. In addition, they don't play nicely with blogger either - I end up having to add a couple BR tags in order to avoid overlapping the next article.

Can someone please fix these problems?!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good looking out, Chris. These types of things are always great to know.

It'll be forwarded along. I've come into the same annoyance when using the "Shout" button with articles on other sites.

For embedding the button on blogger, or any other site, the best solution I've found is to use a div tag with width, float and height set as needed to give the button a specified area. This way, you won't get overlap and it will essentially set in place like an embedded image.

Here's an example: make sure to replace [ with < and ]with >.

[div style="float: left; width: 65px; height: 63px;"]PUT IN THE SHOUT IT! SCRIPT HERE[/div]

Play around with the height and width, then you should be set. Hopefully we'll get something bigger, better and more functional in the future.

Also, if you have any other things you'd like to see on the site, swing by the forums and let us know.:)

Anonymous said...

The forums link that person left is wrong.

It's http://forums.shoutwire.com