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More changes to my site

October 15, 2006 | 1 comment

I have made a couple more changes. I no longer require you to register to post a comment, though I still encourage my users to sign up. I have also prettified the appearance (and code) of my comments page. Even more (and better!) changes are coming, though. Keep your eyes peeled.

Also, if you are using IE, Safari, or Opera, here is a screenshot of how my site looks from Firefox. Viva la Firefox!

Tags: blogging, web design

Inventory is almost over!

August 26, 2006

I have been on the inventory prep team at work for several months now, getting ready for our rapidly approaching inventory. It has kept me busy as hell, working my ass off all day, then coming home and passing out. Well, it is almost over. Tomorrow evening, the company we outsource the counting of our merchandise to will begin counting everything in the store. They will be done sometime Monday afternoon. After that, I am free from the deadline that has been hanging over my head like the sword of Damocles for almost eight months.

Tomorrow I am going to start work on my first useful web app, which will be a social reviews site. Think digg coupled with screwed.us, with the whole thing seasoned with a dash of microformats. It will be open source, based on Code Ignitor, and will be the first time I have played with any type of framework. In fact, it will only be the second large PHP project I have ever worked on, and the first one I did was replaced with TextPattern to run this site. Should be interesting.

Both my birthday and anniversary are coming up in October. If you wish to get me presents, please feel free to do so from my Froogle wish list.

Also, I finally caved and got an account on MySpace. I don’t plan on doing anything with it but commenting on other people’s stuff (which is aggregated to me via Google Reader) but you can still add me to your friends list if you want. The site sucks, though, and is a great example of what not to do when creating a web app, so don’t expect to find me online very often.

Tags: web design, work

A great offer on web coding

July 16, 2006

I am in need of money, so I got to thinking (after hearing about XHTMLized) and realized that I can code pretty well too. So here is the deal…

The first person who responds to this post by emailing me at joshie@surber.us can have their design turned into code for $100 for the first page, $50/page after that, up to five pages. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: web design, work

Serving up something new

June 25, 2006

No wonder people ignore standards. I tried to do the right thing and serve my pages as application/xhtml+xml. I add the code from Bite Size Standards to publish.php (replace line 439) and go on about my life.

However, I don’t have my skin set to LCARS (which is the default and what I am sure 99% of y’all use) so it takes me a couple of weeks to realize that the entire content box is bordered in white for no reason at all. There is nothing in the stylesheet that even tries to suggest white as anything but a text color (and a 1 pixel border somewhere or other). Yet there it is. It went away when I went back to serving as text/html.

No wonder Mark Pilgrim still uses basic HTML.

Edit a few minutes later

After a bit of research I discovered the problem. Because XML doesn’t make assumptions about the structure of your document, if you want to fill the viewport you must set backgrounds on the html tag, rather than (or in addition to) the body.

Now fixed. I love the W3 again.

Tags: frusterations, web design