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Floated divs with width 50 percent problem in Internet Explorer is just one of the many, many joys Internet Explorer brings us. Even though some of those IE bugs seem totally absurd, some are quite logical, like this one:

If we have a div with a width of 501px or any other odd number, and inside it two floated divs with widths of 50%, Firefox will render it just fine, giving to each of those floats what appears to be 50% width. But it’s not. One of those floats is 1 pixel wider.

CSS Code: .container{
	width:500px;
	background-color:#FF0000
}
.float_1 {
	float:left;
	width:50%;
	background-color:#00FFFF;
}
.float_2 {
	float:left;
	width:50%;
	background-color:#99FF00;
	font:"Courier New", Courier, monospace
}

HTML Code:
<div class="container">
   <div class="float_1">Floating div 1, width = 50%</div>
   <div class="float_2">Floating div 2, width = 50%</div>
</div>

When we look at the same page in Internet Explorer, the second float div is underneath the first. That is because 501/2 = 250.5, and since we’re dealing with whole numbers here, 250.5 rounded gives us 251 pixels width for each floated div. 251 + 251 equals 502, and since the container is 501px wide, it can’t fit in the same row.

Live HTML/CSS preview (View with Internet Explorer to see the problem):
501px wide container
500px wide container

This seems logical to me, but impractial and time wasting like all other IE issues.

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A lots of us from Thirty Day Challenge have our blog pages deleted by tumblr, and perhaps you’ve tweaked it to your likings, and now can’t remember how, like I don’t. The google cache comes to rescue! If you click here you’ll see How to become a wedding planner 30DC test page, that is erased like every other. So just enter this into google search:

cache:howtobecomeaweddingplanner.tumblr.com
(replace ‘howtobecomeaweddingplanner.tumblr.com’ with your lost web page’s url)

And if you are lucky, your page will be shown so you can save your work… but hurry up, Google Cache doesn’t last forever.

Yipiiii! The cash is in my Amazon affiliate account. Not much, but it proves wonderfully that 30DC 2007 works like a charm! The success is even greater knowing that the sale was made from tumblr blog that existed only for 2 days!

Now, silly me, I’ve never used Amazon’s affiliate program before, so I’ve been checking my account at https://aws-portal.amazon.com/ instead on https://affiliate-program.amazon.com . I could have easily won the challenge first, and not know it at all till today

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I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but it seems that digg.com is onto suspending 30DC related accounts as well. Looks like this years 30DC has such a huge impact that we’re easily noticed by even major web2.0 platforms, and characterized as spammers. Shame, ’cause I know that it’s an everyday practice of most SEO people to ’scratch your back if you scratch mine’, or ’share love’ as Ed said it much sweeter.

One of my teammates noticed that his IP is banned by digg, and as I logged into digg, I saw this:

This is a brand new account of mine that’s been suspended so I know exactly when I used it and what for:

- Created 2 stories for my 2 R.I.P. tumblr blogs + 1 experimental story
- Gave diggs to a couple of my 30DC teammates

It might be that this is not at all the reason for account suspension, my guess is that maybe I’ve accidentally used Social poster twice to digg same stories. Maybe the sole use of social poster is not OK with digg, and is reason for suspension.

Now, I tend to look at 30DC as a big experiment and a place to learn a lot, so I’m not upset by downers that happened in the past few days, neither should it bother you. I just hope that we’re all able to carry on ’till the end of challenge, and receive knowledge that Ed & Co are so generously sharing.

I would like to hear your experience, anyone else’s digg account ‘burried’ forever?

Update: Read this cool article that explains what might be a problem here: How to Get Banned by Digg

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Hi all,

By now the tumblr tumble is an old news, so nothing much to say about that. It’s a downer, but not a stopper.

What I’ve found interesting in google analytics of one of mine 30DC tumblr pages was that someone used allinurl:tumblr as a search in google to get to my page. What does this mean? It means that someone listed all 511,000 indexed pages that has word ‘tumblr’ in its url. If this was another moment in time I’d say fine, somebody likes tumblr people perhaps, and went through all tumblr blogs this way, but right now it seems that someone is fishing on fresh key phrase ideas. Woohoo! Good for him! I hate to see somebody doing this, but I think that Ed & Co should have provided 30DC contestants with alternative web2.0 hosting platforms/blogs. Lots of alternatives that came a bit late by Mike Mindel: Tip #12 - IMPORTANT - It’s the Process NOT the Platform

We wouldn’t be such an easy target for spammers, and wouldn’t provoke tumblr to tumble us I think, but we’ll go on now… two days wasted, two keywords per person, max, potentially too

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• The second blog is up… the first blog’s Netscape firestarter page is listed in Google’s page 3 in only 40mins! #

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