Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Apr
19
2007
at 10:40pm
The wordpress theme I developed for tomorrow’s “Orange and Maroon Effect” webmaster challenge is now available for download. Here is a screenshot:
Here is the zip file and the tar.gz file.
I hope some of you have the chance to actually use it! And let me know if you have any problems. This is the first theme I have attempted to distribute. Also, I am really not sure about the copyright on the photo. Please let me know if you decide to use the theme so I can contact you if there are any problems regarding the photo.
With the exception of the photo, this theme is released under a Creative Commons Lisence
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Apr
18
2007
at 11:36am
I just heard about a web challenge that is going on this Friday to show support for Virginia Tech:
For one day, show your support for the victims of this tragedy by changing your website colors to incorporate some version of the “Orange And Maroon Effect”.
I am going to do my best to make at least one of the sites I control orange and maroon this friday. Please consider making a change to your site and spread the word if you can.
Posted in Design, General | 1 Comment »
Apr
05
2007
at 9:11am
Today is CSS naked day. I thought I’d join in and remove the CSS from this site, just for fun.
My apologies for the lack of useful posts lately – I’ve been really swamped at work building a little quick quiz application and a load of other stuff. On a personal note, Liam and I just bought a house this week! Yay! Exciting time, but hectic! I’ll be back with some useful posts soon, I hope.
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Mar
22
2007
at 10:38am
In the old days, webmasters would compromise content and usability to fit in more keywords and better “optimize” their sites (see the first diagram in that aritlce). Now we are looking at compromising our content and usability to better target linkers and therefore search results. Is this a good thing??? (Check the long comment by “identity” towards the bottom). I have seen some sites that are obviously attempting to cater to the digg crowd and, to be honest, I find it really annoying.
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Mar
16
2007
at 4:50pm
I’m finally able to use my new laptop! It took forever for Liam to get the latest version of Ubuntu downloaded and installed, and all my files copied over and everything. Well, I guess I should backtrack a bit.
Originally we had ordered a laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. The first laptop we wanted had just been purchased by someone else. So then we asked for our second choice, a 14″ Lenovo. When it came in stock at the shop it turned out to be a French laptop! I thought this might be okay but then they sent me a photo of the keyboard and man, French keyboards are really different! I’m a touch typer so I need things to be in the usual places. Finally we settled on a 15″ Acer Aspire 5602 (1.66 Intel Duo processor, 1GB ram, 120GB hard drive).
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Mar
15
2007
at 7:51pm
We’ve got two new articles up at A Padded Cell, both by me:
11 Practical Reasons to use CSS for Layout – the “semantics” approach is lost on so many people. Hopefully a different approach will help.
and
7 Things all Webmasters Need to Know about SEO – it continues to surprise me how little webmasters know about search engines!
The overabundance of numbered list headlines is unfortunate. I admit it. That’s just what seemed to be best for these articles. We won’t continue to write this many lame digg-bait style headlines, I promise. There will also be more articles by people other than me (I hope!). Liam is writing some 
If you are interested in writing for us please take a look at our contribute page.
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