hellorobot.org

When an anchor is clicked in Firefox, the browser puts a 1-pixel, black, dotted border around the element. For the control freak seeking a flawless design, for pages where links manipulate the DOM but don’t load another URI, that dotted border can look silly, ugly even.

Getting rid of it is actually very easy. More importantly, should you get rid of it?

By the sound of it this error code will show in many, many situations, but if it helps someone, here’s what caused it in my script: I had an object in the JavaScript and an object in the DOM with the same id. When I tried to manipulate the DOM object it couldn’t do it because that object had be overwritten by the JS object.

I am not a designer. For me, creating a good-looking site design is a long and tedious task of trial and error. So one of the things I’m learning to love about building a site in an open-source CMS platform like WordPress is the number of free designs available. And some of them are even good!

Check out this list from Smashing Magazine. It’s where I found Derek Punsalan’s Grid Focus, which I loved for its clean and neutral look. I like the hyper-organization of it.

What follows is an ongoing documentation of the changes, customizations, updates that I am making to hellorobot.org’s Grid Focus install. Hopefully, some of these changes are for the better.