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Testing Whether jQuery works

$(function(){ $('#testbutton').click(function(){alert('Hello, world')}); }); Unfortunately, only the administrator seems to be able to use unfiltered HTML. I also needed to use the Text Control plugin and set formatting to "No Formatting" to prevent escaping the single quotes. But it seems to work.

Formatting in Internet Explorer

I just looked at the blog in IE, and it looks like my <pre> elements mess everything up. They have the CSS set as scroll: auto, but IE doesn't care. Honestly, at this point, I don't care either. This blog is for me to document my thoughts on creating the Young Israel website and [...]

Organizing the Shiur Archives

I was trying to figure out how to organize the shiurim in a way that allowed for "AND" filters; something like author=shulman&tag=audio&tanach. Regular expressions won't work; but PHP allows you to use [] after a name and it automatically creates an array, so author=shulman&tag[]=audio&tag[]=tanach works (tag=audio&tag=tanach just overwrites the first tag). The archive filter is now [...]

The new Young Israel site

It’s finally live: the redesigned Young Israel site. So far, the feedback has been all positive, and I figured I’d have more free time once it was done. But nooooooo: I’m going to have to reorganize the shiur archives; with Rabbi Shulman adding 2+ a week, it’s going to add up fast. I like the [...]

Hello world!

This is intended to be a blog of my thoughts while developing the Young Israel website, though with my lack of free time I doubt it will happen much.