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Media Temple and Email

allank — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:35:12 +0000

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!

jQuery v1.1.4 & Light Box v2.03.3 Updates

allank — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:25:09 +0000

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.

Variable Driven CSS with Lua and CGI. CSS… with Variables! Moonfall!

allank — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:04:43 +0000

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.

Open Call For Employment, Freelance, and All Things Web

allank — Wed, 16 May 2007 19:42:31 +0000

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.

The Web 2.oh and New Web Design is Ruining the Inter-tubes

allank — Mon, 14 May 2007 15:23:22 +0000

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.

WP Lightbox JS Plugin and Automattic Stats

allank — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:58:16 +0000

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 title attribute 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.

Portfolio Is GO!

allank — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:57:01 +0000

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.

Check out my portfolio now!

Ash Wednesday Blues

allank — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:42:57 +0000

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.

Beads, Booze, and Bemusement

allank — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:03:28 +0000

Ok so I couldn’t make it through the entirety of the first weekend of Mardi Gras. I’m not feeling in good shape today. I am feeling in a shape, but that shape is vulgar, sad, and hedious, and should stay in dark corners. Am I not human? Do I not need to sleep? It’s been on since Friday at 6 o’clock. Two 4 a.m. mornings in a row will humble even the most seasoned of drunks. But when you start at noon it’s and entirely new ballgame.

Enter the marathon party. This Sunday we will call a wash. I will recover, rehydrate, and relax. But this coming Wednesday, the 14th, at 6 o’clock p.m. it starts again. Mardi Gras or bust. 7 strait days of parades and party come this Wednesday.

New Styles Abound

allank — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:01:17 +0000

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.