CSS Help?

Dan Edelen — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:56:43 +0000

If there are any CSS gurus who read this blog, I need your advice.

I updated Cerulean Sanctum a few weeks back, but I’m having a terrible time resolving a display issue for users of IE. In Firefox, the banner at the top of the blog uses text-shadow to create the drop shadow behind Cerulean Sanctum. IE does not recognize this standard CSS call, instead relying on IE filters to create the effect. The CSS call that I modified in my theme’s child theme is

#blog-title { font: 7em Carolingia,serif; text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px black; letter-spacing: -2px; padding: 40px 0 0; margin-top: 30px; background: url("images/cs_banner_2.jpg") left 1px no-repeat; }

That works fine, but when I try to add the shadow IE filter after the text-shadow call, the filter adds the shadow to the banner image, not to the text. I find this bizarre because text-shadow handles this perfectly.

Anyway, if anyone has insights, I really want to help people better read the blog title in IE, and a drop shadow looks great, just like it does in Firefox.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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CSS Help?

Best of Cerulean Sanctum 2009

Dan Edelen — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:01:23 +0000

Yep, I’m a bit late to this. Forgot that I had not done a Best Of for last year. But as it is almost July, think of this as a sort of Christmas in near-July!

If you are new to Cerulean Sanctum, the Best Of links in the sidebar are a great place to start if you wish to review what’s been written here in the past. I continue to get emails from people who find this blog, then hit those links and write much how they blessed them.

The Great Unconfession

When finding meaning to life proves elusive.

The Rules of Attraction (Spiritual Edition), Part 1

The Rules of Attraction (Spiritual Edition), Part 2

The Church is beautiful and must be attractive, letting the cross alone serve as the barrier to lost people.

The Hell Birds

Birds threatened Abraham’s sacrifice and thus his blessing from God. How the Enemy threatens to steal our blessing, and how we must fight him for it.

Tragedy in Three Acts: A Revolution, a Theory, and a Theology That Devastated Western Christianity, Part 1

Tragedy in Three Acts: A Revolution, a Theory, and a Theology That Devastated Western Christianity, Part 2

An essential primer to understanding how the Western Church’s poor choices in the 19th century have left us flailing today.

The One Ingredient Essential for a Successful Church

It really can be this simple.

Who Is My Neighbor? (Community & Economics Edition)

Imagine a world where people sought their neighbors’ good…

A Dozen Sayings of Jesus That Will Change the World—If Christians Ever Believe Them

One of the most Googled posts here at Cerulean Sanctum. Find out why.

Wicked Systems

Evil doesn’t always have a face.

Is the American Church Too Macho?

We’re always hearing how the American Church has become too feminine. But what if the opposite is true?

Purpose—And Why Christian Men Don’t Always Live Theirs

The factors that work against men living out their destiny in Christ…

Killed All the Day Long

Is living by the sword truly the Christian way? Or are we merely running from martyrdom?

Farewell, Shekinah

If the glory of God departed, would we Christians know it?

Is American Evangelicalism on the Verge of Collapse?—A Response

In which I respond to the ARIS Report’s dire news for Evangelicalism and to the debate between the late Michael Spencer and Leith Anderson over its significance.

The One Who Left the Gate Ajar

What one sheep wandering away says about us.

The Real Sins of Sodom

We all know why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Or do we?

Finding the Center—The Response

We Christian talk a lot about our “center.” But where should it be?

Fumbling the Gospel

The Three Marks of Genuine Power Evangelism

How to mess up power evangelism and how to do it right.

The Error of the Unstrung

What we lose when we go hopping from church to church or when we shun the assembling of the saints…

Equipping the Saints: Request for Reader Info

Equipping the Saints: Too Many Questions?

Equipping the Saints: What We Must Expect…and When

Equipping the Saints: That Catchy Tune

Equipping the Saints: Murder in the Church

Equipping the Saints: Stepping on the Brake

Equipping the Saints: The Simple Genius

Equipping the Saints: The Synergy of Spirit & Word

Equipping the Saints: The Totality of Knowing God Begins Here

Equipping the Saints: Blessed Are the Educated, For They Shall Know God

Equipping the Saints: How to Have a Sweet Hermeneutic

Equipping the Saints: Leaders, Doers, and Community

This series examines how the Church can best equip the saints to be the saints. If you read only one post, check out “What We Must Expect…and When.”

Jumping from Bridges

A church that preaches safety first accomplishes little for the Kingdom.

The Finger in the Mirror

All this hand-wringing in American Evangelicalism about what other people are doing wrong, yet so little wondering whether our mistakes abetted those wrongs…

Bank Account of the Living Dead

For the Christian, whose money is it really?

The Church and the Halloween Alternative Party

When trying not to look like the world ends up looking exactly like it…

The Problems with Christian Fiction

Yep, it sure could get better.

Why Christianity Is Failing in America

Why Christianity Is Failing in America—Further Thoughts

The titles say it all.

How to Fix the American Christian—Lightening the Load

How to Fix the American Christian—Unifying Faith and Praxis

All is not lost if we are prepared to lose ourselves for Christ and His Kingdom.

The Church Amid the Economic Storm

What happens when the offering plate is empty? And why did we not prepare for that eventuality?

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Best of Cerulean Sanctum 2009

Cerulean Sanctum, Lean & Mean

Dan Edelen — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 01:32:18 +0000

In an effort to trim the fat from Cerulean Sanctum, I purged nearly 250 posts that consisted of old announcements, thanks, technical stuff, excuses for not writing, reposts, and a few others. I’m trying to get the blog’s Google juice up, and that sort of padding dilutes the brew, so to speak.

And since I trimmed a bunch of posts saying thanks to you for being a reader, I just wanted to add this big one:

Thank you for choosing to spend your time reading Cerulean Sanctum. The folks who regularly post here are some of the most loyal and congenial on the Web. That means a lot to me. May God bless you richly.

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