If you have been to this site in the day and a half since I made the switch to the new design, then you might have noticed a very weird problem that I have been battling today. “The Adsense Flicker” For some reason, that I still don’t understand, when you hovered over a link on the right side of the page, it caused the ads displayed by Google’s Adsense program flicker a ghost of itself where your mouse was.

Initially I thought this was a by product of not removing all of my javascript code I was toying with earlier, but after removing any reference what-so-ever to the fact that I ever thought about that, the flickering still remained. I played with my CSS file for quite a while untill I got serious and did a Google Search. I returned a lot of message board postings, which ususally return results, but are more often than not, buried in mindless drivel. After reading through those I saw a lot of different guesses and “soltions” all of them different in some way. However there was a common thread: Link hovers with border manipulation.

Turns out after a quick search of my CSS file, I had left some ill-concieved lines of CSS in my a:hover tag. Once removed, the flicker was gone.

Mystery solved. But now the question remains…what the hell was I doing with “border: 0″ in my hover anyway?

Don’t code websites drunk kids!