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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.

The design/layout of hellorobot.org is a modified version of the Grid Focus WordPress theme – a fairly extensive modification, but the same basic structure. And although this blog is a smaller width and uses a different menu style, adding a header image to the default Grid Focus theme is not much different than it was here.

I think you’ll find that adding a header image is pretty simple, really. It requires editing two files: first, the header.php file; and second, the style.css file. Both are found in the ../wp-content/themes/grid_focus_public/ folder. You can edit these files in a simple text editor like Notepad on Windows or TextEdit in Mac OS.

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.

Microsoft’s holiday present to developers: Internet Explorer 8 passes the Acid2 test.