Category Archives: web design
Anything to do with web design, interactive/interaction design, blogging, etc.
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Please Excuse Our AppearanceJune 30, 2009
Setting up the new blog has been a bit like moving into a new house, sight-unseen: I keep finding new rooms I didn’t know existed, all in varying states of readiness. Some are completely unfurnished; some seem to have some random scattered detritus lying about… I’m doing my best to tidy-up as I [...]
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Back in the SaddleJune 21, 2009
I gave up on the last design, and the idea of the thematic child-theme. A few weeks ago I came across the Carrington family of themes, most notably Carrington JAM (Just Add Markup), which is pretty much exactly what I’ve been looking for in terms of a truly blank slate on which to hang [...]
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okay, so — betterMay 12, 2009
Added some color, played a bit with borders & margins, &c… it’s not my favorite thing in the world yet, but I don’t hate hate it anymore. I’m messing about with the comments at the moment, but that won’t go live until I’ve found a reliable 2.7 update to the Sandbox comments template. [...]
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bleh.May 11, 2009
Figures that as soon as I get my first wp theme done, I hate the sight of it. I’ll be figuring more out tonight…
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getting the hang of itMay 7, 2009
Holy cats — I feel like Alice through the looking-glass since I unpacked all this WordPress and MAMP stuff. Or perhaps Dorothy after she goes from black and white to color is a better analogy. There’s something so thrilling about finding out that you’ve got a whole new set of skills to sink [...]
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Playing around.May 6, 2009
I’ve popped the lid here and am starting to play around; I have to say — while Wordpress definitely seems to offer more tools and widgets and extendibles, etc, they also seem to have a much stricter control over content. Have I sacrificed my design freedom for silly doo-dads?
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brave new world.May 5, 2009
So, I got tired of waiting around for Blogger to figure itself out, and decided to join the rest of the serious world on WordPress. Here we are. I (obviously) haven’t done anything as far as integrating the blog into the rest of the site — it’s completely unstyled (well, except for this [...]
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Mother Flipping AwesomeApril 21, 2009
So I just applied to grad school — like, five minutes ago. Man, I wish there had been online application forms* when I applied to college the first time 20 years ago. Now all that needs doing is to get my recommendation letters (props to Anne, Chris & Kerry!) and transcripts in the mail. [...]
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An Event Apart, Chicago 2008 (part 1)October 12, 2008
So, on October 11, I hopped a flight to Chicago, a city that had long called to me, but which I had, somewhat inexplicably, never before visited, there to see the sites, meet the people, and attend An Event Apart, a conference about web design and designers of web content put on by the folks [...]
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Of Chrome, Wingnuts, and MadnessSeptember 2, 2008
So, it’s possible you heard that Google sent its brand new contender into the fray of the ongoing Browser Wars today, and perhaps you cared enough to read beyond the headline. Not that Google didn’t make it easy — what better way to snag the interest of the average geek than by documenting it [...]
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Spring ProjectsApril 13, 2008
A week or two ago, I was noticing the little leaf-buds on the tree in front of our building, and marveling that it was the first “sign of spring” I had noticed so far this year. It made me happy and a little sad too, because here in LA, where we don’t have real [...]