Category: development

Notice anything different? No, really… I’m super proud of this one. No, I didn’t design it. I did build it and redid everything so I don’t need any more style hacks (server-side scripting to add different CSS depending on the browser), and things are a little more proper than they were before. Keyboard navigation is good, and it works really well in the IBM Homepage Reader other than a couple things I have no control over (but am trying to exert some influence over). I don’t have JAWS, so if anyone has it or better yet, uses it, please let me know if you run into any problems.

Took going to Babelfish to figure out he wasn’t saying it sucked, but a German speaker linked to my Movable Type on OS X tutorial! How cool is that?

How funny is this? I’m updating the computer Jen uses (our Windows XP box that we’re currently too poor to replace with a shiny new Mac) with the latest Mozilla and AOL clients and realize the time is 10 minutes fast. So, I go to Adjust Date/Time and try to sync with time.windows.com. It fails. OK… so I remember that I use time.apple.com on my Powerbook, which always works, so I try it. What do you know, it worked!

Wow… it’s a handheld cancer detector! Next, we need transporters and phasers. We can do without the skintight polyester “Space Dance Revue” unitards. Onwards towards a rosey Rodenberry future!

I was playing around with li:hover from all those CSS Tabs and Submenus examples that have been popping up on the it-ner-web and decided that it woudl be fun if I could do the same thing with content. It’s a little messy and so far only works in Mozilla, but it’s funny: Tab Content – Hiding and Showing Stuff with li:hover.

If anyone can get it working in IE 6 and/or Safari, ping this post or leave a comment with the url and let me know! I’d work on it, but I’m out of time for today – playtime is over.

Michelle loved the design (with a minor change), so here it is: Idee Fixe: In Utero. It’s nowhere near done, but the shell is there. What do you think?

I’m sure all of you have forgotten about the little redesign contest I ran a month or so ago. Well, I’m happy to share Michelle’s new logo with you. She wanted primary colors, and well, this is what we ended up with.

Now it’s on to designing the rest of the page… I’ll show you when I’ve got something worth showing.

I am 32.54438[/b> geek, which highly disappoints me. I took the test last week, and didn’t take enough time to fully contemplate my answers and only got a 28]{style=”text-align:left;”}. I know you’ve already seen it, but you can take the test too. I am a huge geek. Not geek to the point of nerd, but I’m getting there. I’m such a geek that I’m embarrassed by how low my score is. My boss said I was too “cool” to rank so high on the geek test. That one knocked me back a step. I’ve never been cool. I think it’s probably because I discovered the joys of geekery after high school, so I missed out on the whole D&D, A/V Club thing. I don’t know… I swear I’m making up for lost geekTime. The last eight years working where I do, and meeting the people I have, and learning the things I’ve learned has been more fun than any other career I could have thought of back then.