Unwanted Spacing between your divs in Firefox

This problem is called margin collapsing. Apparently the spacing in FFox is what’s supposed to happen, IE7 is doing it wrong.

In the majority of cases, margin collapsing delivers the types of layout results we want. However, in cases such as mine I need my divs together for my site design.




I had ignored this problem in the past but tonight I couldn’t get around it. My layout displayed perfectly in IE7, but when viewing it from a firefox browser it was giving me trouble. I couldn’t get it right, when I was able to fix the space between my divs my text spacing would be off, and for my layout it needed to be perfect. I wasn’t going to resort to absolutes. Here’s the css that was giving me trouble. The divs that the space is between are order_top and order_mid.



So after a little bit of reading I found the solution was adding {padding: 1px 0;} into {order_mid}.



Nothing else worked for me, such as changing my margin, padding, and borders to 0px.

Give this a shot if you haven't figure out how to fix this frustrating problem.



Related links: Uncollapsing Margins
[Solved] Strange space between divs in firefox
collapsing margins

Tags: web divs css margin collapsing

Blogging Tips - I'm Still Here

I wanted to let you know I'm still here. I wish I had more time to work on my blog and bless you with my knowledge. As you can surely see, my blog does not pay my bills. You'll be showered in Biddle-isms as soon as I'm finished architecting my new projects.

I leave you with some blogging tips from Skellie at www.skelliewag.com. Blogs do not generate traffic over night. It takes time, determination and hard work. The link below is a great read for any blogger. For those of you who aren't bloggers, I think after reading this you'll find a new appreciation for it.

Here it is:
25 Paths to an Insanely Popular Blog

OB

Tags: blogging tips

Oh the Joy of Writing - Investor vs Consumers

Explaining your company to investors is different than selling your product to consumers and vise versa, especially when your creating reading materials. I know this sounds elementary, but when you have time, money and personnel constraints its easy to make this mistake. Developing these marketing tools is as important as your product's development.

One of the greatest challenges I've faced while working with start ups is trying to explain a company's product and or ideas, not only in words but also on paper. I'll introduce myself as a below average writer. Ever since I was young it's been difficult for me to get my ideas across in such a way so others can understand them. A big reason why I started this blog was so I could improve my writing skills.

What I've come to learn is that writing takes time, a lot of time that you must be prepared to commit if you want people to use your product, especially if it's online.

As in my shoes, the problem arises because founders are too close to their companies. Sure, it all makes perfect sense to them, but when explaining it to someone outside their company it takes an hour at Tully's while drinking a vente americano. Then, when you finally get your elevator pitch down for investors, you end up confusing your consumers with it. For the consumer, your messages need to be broken down and simplified, which is always the hardest part.

Please leave a comment with advice or a link to some for tips how to explain your products and services to multiple audiences.

Here are some links to writing tips.

http://tomdean.net/Marketing/?p=624

http://sistergirltales.blogspot.com/2008/02/meme-three-writing-tips-and-award.html
http://www.capulet.com/weblog/julie/newsletter-writing-tips

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/daily-writing-tips-featured-on-cool-site-of-the-day/
http://nubia3833.blogspot.com/2008/02/top-10-blog-writing-tips.html

Tags: writing investors consumers advice

Long Days.... Long Nights.....

It seems like there's endless work ahead, waking up at 8:00am and going to bed at 2:00am or even sometimes 4:00am the next day. I started this blog last weekend and since then I haven't had any time to work on it. My team and I are literally spending all our time getting or product ready for launch.

And to add to it, MySpace opened up their application platform to developers on the 5th. What a great opportunity for Listbums! The idea here is that all developers will get a fair shot at gaining popularity once the platform goes live next month, in contrast to Facebook, where platform launch partners such as Slide, RockYou, and iLike gained a tremendous advantage by having their applications available before everyone else got a chance to build apps.

So basically on top of everything else, we've got two weeks to build our MySpace app. I say only two weeks because it gives us enough time to test and perfect our app before MySpacers get a hold of it. This is great news for you guys because you'll get to see our new "Social List Editor" much sooner than expected, that's if you have a MySpace account.

Keep Your Overhead Low

I came across a post the other day titled: 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! I found it rather informative, some of the tips remind you you're doing a good job and the others remind you to get your butt in gear. It's a great article and I recommend reading it. However, the article failed to discuss the most important aspect of a start up company, which is to keep your overhead low, especially in the early stages during product development.

The biggest mistake a company can make is to hire a bunch of sales and marketing help when your product isn't ready. They'll be sitting around doing other jobs they're not good at as you fail to hit your projection dates. Sure it's important to market your product before it's launched, but if you're not ready you'll end up wasting money, then letting people (friends) go because you can no longer afford to keep them on. A few years back, during my second start up experience, I saw this happen, except management didn't let them go. The company was paying sales people good salaries to do other jobs they weren't hired to do. As a result our overhead was too high, money ran out quickly and for many other reasons the company failed.

During your product development stages think of it this way: If your company can live without it, then don't do it. Survive!!!!

Tags: low overhead startups

Preview the New ListBums: It's 2:00am on Saturday

We Closed our initial test site today and replaced it with a preview of what's to come. The only content that remains the same are the lists, however, you'll notice they're in a more user friendly format. It's been a lot of fun reading them all over again as we've been waiting for our new site to cache the content.

It's really 2:00am on Saturday. Something inspired me tonight to set this blog up while doing research for ListBums' new business model. So it was either try and get some sleep while my mind was racing about blogging :) or design my cool logo you see at the top of the page. So congratulate me on my first post and get excited about the new ListBums.com, it will be live again before you know it!

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