OK- I feel silly

It seems like I've been coding around this issue forever. This ingenious post points out that you can create relative links on a page, even to other domains, that can be either ssl or not. I think I'm going to have to comb through some code and change this. Unbelievable. I think a lot of times, rather than learn the best way to do something, we just jump to whatever solution we can think of right now and implement it. That works but as seen here, can lead to more work than is necessary.

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May Contain Peanuts

Can a website really contain peanuts? I doubt it but maybe it's a new web standard...

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Cover Flow Javascript

It constantly amazes me what JavaScript and a bit of determination can accomplish- behold Reflex- JavaScript Cover Flow! (Cover Flow is ™ Apple, Inc.)

Yellow Inputs

Not so long ago, I decided to follow some advice I found somewhere that people like their textfields to have a slightly tinted yellow background to make a visual break with the other white space (I imagine this wouldn't be the case with non-white backgrounds). So I did it and to my chagrin, I probably got more positive comments about that change than any other one change I've ever made to the site (at least from co-workers).

Anyway, I just ran across an article that provided a bit of useful info

...be careful about using a light text colour for text with input boxes. More and more Internet users are using the Google Toolbar which fills in online forms for you. Whenever a form appears it automatically turns the background colour of input boxes to yellow - if you've specified white text it would be virtually impossible for your site visitors with this toolbar installed to see what they're writing when completing the form.

Changes caused by possible applications are just one more variable in the endless web design game.