Not sure what Media Temple is doing with my email but nothing is coming in or out through SMTP, IMAP, or Webmail. I hope it gets fixed soon. This wasn’t in any update email I normally get…. wait… that’s why I didn’t get the email!
Archive for the 'Blog' Category
26
Nov
Media Temple and Email
2 of the most useful internet readymades (webbymades?); jQuery and LightBox. jQuery is one of the more prominent javascript frameworks, and now even faster than before. LightBox is a javascript and css web application for pop ups and galleries; currently being used in a previous iteration on my site.
I’m very glad to see that people are moving towards real progress in the area of dynamic CSS with variables and globals. Moonfall is making a move in the right direction. It’s not difficult to set up CGI or Lua, and the idea of variables in CSS holds exciting prospects.
I have recently decided to expand my work experience and am considering job offers both full time and freelance. I am highly proficient in CSS 1.x, 2.x, 3; XHTML transitional, strict; XML and SEO. I have several Addy recognitions for my contribution to the internet in web. My knowledge base is firmly ruited in creative design aesthetics, standards compliance, device independence, interface and navigation, interaction design, and user experience.
If you or anyone you know is in need of design, programming, or flash work, please review my resume and my portfolio, and pass my information along.
Would Web 2.0 just die already? Do all buttons need to be shiny? Is there a need for glossy content? What happend to best practices, semanitc code, and usability?
Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said. Source
People will come to your site and appreciate your product and your design if you respect them and give them what they are looking for in an easy to use package. There is no need to distract them with beveled, embossed, and glossed buttons. If your content is informative and well layed out, and you have a clear and concise navigation, you have already won. When you use design to suppliment your content your failing at the prime directive. Content is king and your design should compliment it.
Please step away from the saturated gradient and liquid mirror effect and the plactic wrap filter. We can work this out, you and I. Your mother loves you very much. Please put down the Web 2.0.
To extend experience and functionality I have installed WP Lightbox JS Plugin for site imagery and Automattic Stats for WP Global Dashboard. Check out the portfolio for a good example of Lighbox functionality.
Plugin used to overlay images on the current page into neat Javascript-powered overlay popups. This plugin includes the new Lightbox JS v2.03.2 javascript written by Lokesh Dhakar and got transformed into a Wordpress Plugin by me. Use the
titleattribute if you want to show a caption. Click on the images below for an example. Source
Automattic Stats is the analytics solution that WP users get but as a plugin for people serving their own instance of WordPress.
There are hundreds of plugins and services which can provide statistics about your visitors. However I found that even though something like Google Analytics provides an incredible depth of information, it can be overwhelming and doesn’t really highlight what’s most interesting to me as a writer. That’s why Automattic created its own stats system, to focus on just the most popular metrics a blogger wants to track and provide them in a clear and concise interface. Source
It makes things prettier than they were, which sounds impossible, and it makes it easier for me to get you good content. We both win.
21
Mar
Portfolio Is GO!
Be gentle. It is still a work in progress. I have yet to represent all of the glorious work that I have accomplished. There are quite a few illustrations that I am happy displaying. Though, I am currently discussing amongst contemporaries whether or not those are best fit for another section. Any thoughts on that matter? I would love any feedback that you have.
21
Feb
Ash Wednesday Blues
This is my third trip on the Carnival ride, and I must say it is quite the spirited fling. A season within, where only the most daring veterans of base consumption remain calm. I have yet to reach the paramount of the holiday. My liver, kidneys, and lungs rise in mutiny against me to stop me from maintaining through out a solid 5 day strait bender. Getting back into the groove of work sound highly appealing at this point in time. Normally you judge the quality of time off but the time on. If your soul purpose in life is to stay coherent and drinking for 5 days you start to look forward to your time off, working as it were at that point, sort of like working for the weekend, but with out all that ’80s.
09
Feb
New Styles Abound
Just finished, and I say that cautiously, tweaking the Redoable 1.1 styles to fix my aesthetic. I am very pleased with the way things turned out. All of those CSS books I have been putting off reading have payed off. I have been pushing pixels and hatching ideas for the past week. I’m not quite sure what lit the fire under my ass, but I plan to work my fingers to stumpy bones before I fall out again.
