Tag: Site

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  Bleeding-edge web design, circa 1994

  2008.03.10 0
  A recently-departed (as in left for another company) coworker stopped by my desk on his last day to drop off a backup CD I had burned back in 2001. Today I popped it into the drive to see what curiosities lurked within. I was delighted to discover one of my trademark "Miscellany" folders, with a bunch of random stuff in it. Unquestionably the most... Read more »
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  New site design (partially) implemented

  2008.02.24 0
  My guilt over slighting those regrettably still stuck using Internet Explorer 6 finally got the best of me, and I decided to do a new site design that doesn't completely break down in that (outdated) browser. Well, that's not really the reason I did it. I wanted to take a new approach that allows for more customization of the presentation in... Read more »
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  I’m afraid to click on that banner ad

  2008.02.20 0
  As I mentioned yesterday, I've joined ReverbNation in a perhaps futile effort to promote my music. I was just having a look at my pages on that site when I was assaulted by the piercing, fearsome visage of some guy named John Anthony. (He's probably a much more well-established musician than I am, but I've never heard of him, so he is therefore... Read more »
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  Room 34 music now on ReverbNation and SoundClick

  2008.02.19 0
  I've recently set up pages on the musician sites ReverbNation and SoundClick. (Basically, these sites are what MySpace was supposed to be, and they don't suck.) I'm presently working on a major redesign of this site to make it more portal-like and less generic-WordPress-blog-like, and once that's in place I'll integrate ReverbNation and... Read more »
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  Still wish you were using Internet Explorer 6?

  2007.12.03 6
  If you've never visited this site using Internet Explorer 6, you probably are unaware that up until now doing so would load a big ugly alert box explaining how foolish you were being to do so -- being that I am an arrogant Mac and Firefox user, not to mention that IE6 is dangerously insecure (besides not supporting alpha channel transparency in PNG... Read more »
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  Site Redesign

  2007.11.11 3
  Does this site look completely wonky to you? I've just implemented a new design! Most likely you've got some old files cached. Clear your cache and refresh (or, just refresh about 20 times and your browser will get the hint and clear the cache itself). Of course, you might also be using Internet Explorer 6, in which case my annoying alert dialog... Read more »
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  Site girth expansion

  2007.10.05 1
  I've just finished a modification to the site design. I was starting to feel a bit too confined by the narrowness of the old layout, so I've basically kept things intact design-wise, but I've expanded the layout to be more suitable to today's 1024x768-or-greater standard screen resolution. I've also bumped up the size of the type slightly. The... Read more »
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  Where are all of the pictures?

  2007.03.24 0
  I know many of you have been waiting patiently (?) for the return of the "Offspring" photo galleries. Unfortunately I've been really busy with work (and life)... and I've been spending most of my "geek" time doing music in GarageBand or playing the Wii (i.e. losing to Fletcher at bowling), rather than getting the new photo gallery stuff set up on... Read more »
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  So what’s going on here, exactly?

  2007.01.13 0
  Good question. I had redesigned my site, in conjunction with a transition to using the Drupal engine. But then I learned just how much of a sitting target for spammers a Drupal site really is, so that's out the window. For now I've rolled back to the old site (with the 3 or 4 blog entries I posted in Drupal floating out there in the ether). I'm... Read more »
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  A nifty little tool…

  2006.05.16 0
  For web geeks like me whose design ambitions occasionally outpace our abilities, it's always fun to come across tools like this: Color Palette Generator Just give it the URL of any image anywhere on the web (such as, for example on your own site) and it generates color palettes for you to use in your design, based on the colors in the... Read more »
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  The Political Compass

  2006.03.31 0
  For some time, I've had my web browser configured with its start page set to the random article link on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The effect is that every time I open my browser, a new, random article on Wikipedia loads, which can often be severely distracting (so I make sure not to use this configuration at... Read more »
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  Now that’s just wrong.

  2006.03.20 0
  I'm trying out Google AdSense on my site for the second time. Although on one hand I feel a bit like a tool (OK, I am a tool, but that's beside the point), it is nice to potentially make a little money from these sites (even if it would take approximately 800 years to earn enough to pay for one month of hosting... if I weren't getting the hosting... Read more »
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  So long, WordPress!

  2006.03.12 1
  Well, that's it. As of last night, the last traces of WordPress on my site are gone. There's nothing really wrong with WordPress; in fact, for what it does it's pretty elegant and flexible. But since, let's be honest, I'm a geek, and I'm more about building my site than actually creating any meaningful content for it, running it on someone... Read more »
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  Progress…

  2005.07.23 0
  I realized what a daunting task it was going to be to use the built-in WordPress functionality to manually copy over all of the articles from my old site database, so I dug under the hood and used the power of SQL to just more-or-less dump everything from one database into the other. So now all (well, most) of the stuff is moved over, and I can... Read more »