Hello beginners!

So, the beginning of yet another blog for me. I realize that I am fast learning a lot of things related with computers and servers and website design and functionality in particular. Thought I needed a place to document it.

Currently happening in my life is getting kicked out of a shared server, business hosting and even a VPS with no site active by a shady hosting company. Moving to a new server under extraordinary circumstances, I realized that I had better learn fast about how to run a server well. I had some experience running a test machine on my desktop Ubuntu, so, seeing as I felt horribly handicapped in understanding the Centos, WHM and CPanel thingy, I decided to run a Ubuntu Server Edition.

So, the next few posts will probably be about getting the server “right”.

I have a 90GB Hard drive, 1GB RAM Burstable to 2GB. I have 4 websites (and this new one). And possibly a few others, depending on whether the server sinks or swims. Traffic is nothing much, but can suddenly explode and subside if something catches people’s fancy.

If you are beginning a server from scratch, I think it might be useful to follow these from the ground up.

Styling links, but not image links

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Its been an irritating thing with css where you style your text links beyond the typical text-decoration:underline and your images seem to be married to it. It is quite impossible to target the look of text links in general irrespective of class without applying effects meant for text to your images, as you see under the tilted image above.

What looks good for your text links need not necessarily do your images any favours.

I am using a solution that should work for many modern browsers (not till IE8), so this is a catch.

Instead of a:hover{} I use a:not(img) a:hover{text-shadow:whatever; transform:something;etc:etc;} of course, this is going to create problems with a vast percentage of visitors still using < IE9, which don't support :not()

So, my workaround is to use CSS3 effects that IE is unable to render to style text links. If the effects are rendered, they are also not rendered on image links. Otherwise, I style them in a back up manner, which may not be my heart’s desire, but will also not wreck the look of my images. One good way is to change the link color and use text-decoration.