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26May06 | geek | 1 Comment »
Have you noticed that in the wake of the recent round 4 9 Rules submission, that the bloggers of the world have been increasing the quality of their entries? This kind of reminds me of how everyone actually shows up to work on time during the yearly employee review process. Don’t get me wrong I think it’s great, I just think it is interesting how one network can affect so many sites. I guess next week 9 Rules will be listing the sites that made it, so good luck to everyone! BTW… yes I did submit my site! Although I highly doubt I will make it, it was still worth a shot.
16May06 | geek, php | No Comments »
I have decided to release my photo gallery code, in hopes to have the public improve upon the code/gallery. I am by no means a php expert, and would appreciate any help possible. Feel free to check out the code, and the gallery itself. I dubbed the gallery with the name “Cruiser” as in Cruising your flickr photos, and also it’s the nickname of my dog lol. Feel free to download the gallery over at the Cruiser project page. Thanks!
04May06 | css, design, geek | 6 Comments »
I was pretty disappointed in my reboot performance, so I have decided to jettison that theme and start over. I tend to get caught up in the “hey that gradient is cool” or “look at all the pretty images” and try to incorporate that into my designs, but alas that is not me. I am not a graphic designer, I don’t play one on TV, and I didn’t stay at a holiday Inn express last night, so therefore I should stick with what I do best, and that is creating simple, clean designs. I really started evaluating my own past designs and found many things wrong with the way I was going about designing. (more…)
01May06 | css, design, geek | 2 Comments »
I am sure everyone and their brother will have an entry entitled “CSS Reboot” today but oh well, what else should I call it? Frankly I do not know why they call it a “reboot” in the first place, but that is just me. Today marks another CSS “Reboot” for the World Wide Web community. For the non web inclined, the CSS Reboot is an orchestrated “re-styling” of websites across the world. What you see before you is my half-assed attempt at a reboot. One of these days I will produce something I am happy with. I think I have what derek has; “Obsessive Compulsive [design] Disorder”. Anyways I have been checking out some of the “reboots” and they all look pretty good. I already have ideas for my next reboot (which for me will probably be in a couple weeks lol).
My next project though, will be finishing my photo gallery. With Ruby on Rails being “the next big thing” I am not sure if I should continue down the php path or start developing something in rails. Both of my hosting providers totalchoice and mediatemple support, or will soon support rails. There are Flickr API “kits” offered in both languages.
For my non “geek” readers I will now be going back to my regularly scheduled programming; ramblings of music and everyday life!
26Apr06 | css, design, geek | 5 Comments »
Here we go again! Early, early I know……….my last redesign was not my real reboot (haha I fooled ya)……here it is in all its unfinished glory; the real deal, the real reboot. Once again not everything works, but it will by May 1st I promise. I have added a photo link to my still under construction, non working photo gallery. Soon I hope to have everything in working order, and looking all pretty. Feel free to leave feedback, remove me from your feed readers, un-bookmark me, whatever, I can take it. I have put so much time and effort into this reboot, that I have a beard down to my belt and haven’t showered in 4 weeks! Ok not really but it feels like it. I have about 3 wordpress themes that I started in the process of this whole conundrum; so maybe, just maybe when I have time I will polish them up and offer them for download.