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A handy, exhaustive resource on Greek key border patterns, including a handy online Greek key border pattern generator to create dozens of variations.

I recently worked on a project where I was in need of creating a Greek key border, and while I needed to manually create a border pattern in Adobe Illustrator, this site was extremely useful in deciphering the geometry behind how Greek key patterns are generated.

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I recently needed to explain to a client the basic differences between Raster and Vector graphics, and came across this handy Raster and Vector Graphics overview at Mike’s Sketchpad.

While the explanation there is a nice summary, I would recommend any Adobe Illustrator (or other vector graphics software) users out there do a bit more research into vector art.

However for a quick explanation for a client or a non-vector graphics friend, the overview linked above pretty much sums it up as much as a non-vector art geek wants to know about the topic.

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A cool resource for Star Wars geeks (like me) out there looking for vector art of the logos/insignias for the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Empire, seen throughout the original Star Wars trilogy.

These files are vector artwork, and free downloads. Enjoy!

Xaonon • Free Download: Star Wars Insignias Vector Graphics

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I recently had a bizarre problem with this blog: the Sidebar was appearing way at the bottom of the home page, at the end of the last post entry. I saw some potential fixes for this on the wondeful web, and all seemed to point at an unclosed < div > tag. 

My first mistake was looking at the most recent post (which had an oversized image that I fixed). turns out the error cropped up a couple posts earlier and I just hadn’t been to the home page in a while to notice.

The fix was indeed < div > tag related. Here’s how I fixed it after a bunch of troubleshooting and scouring the code — or rather how it was introduced into the post in the first place and how to avoid it…

The short answer is that I had introduced these errant div tags into the post by copying and pasting a post in the Visual Editor mode from a Page to a Post (I had inadvertently created a Page instead of a Post, and so just copy/pasted the content — which included an image — from the Page via the visual editor to a new Post via the visual editor.

I am not sure if the image had anything to do with it, but I am guessing this is probably the case.

I thought I would post this for anyone else out there having a similar issue.

In summary:

• If you are having issues with your WordPress sidebar jumping to the bottom of your home page, check the HTML of all the posts currently featured on the home page — most likely one of them has those div tags in there

• Take this as a warning to use the HTML editor in WordPress if you need to copy/paste from a Post or Page to another Post or Page.

Also a thanks to Serge Madenian, his post on the ’sidebar at bottom’ issue led me to look into the div tag as a possible culprit. And although I found the problem in the meantime, he had quickly replied to my comment on his posts asking for assistance. Thanks Serge!

*** Note: For what it’s worth, I did this using the Safari browser in OS X 10.5 — not sure if this plays a part or not but thought I would mention it.

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