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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

My First Stylesheet

August 2003

I was digging in the wayback machine and was surprised to find various versions of my old website, which managed to survive my adolescence. Sadly, I couldn't find any of my pre-teen sites, but those were more Pokémon fan sites and stuff than a personal website or blog anyway; oh, and they were built in WYSIWYG anyway. (RIP Geocities.)

So I found my favorite design of my old personal site. The one that managed to stay around the longest. It was the first one I had designed myself, and I think I had a hard time letting it go. It was strong and simple; you can already see my minimalistic style. I think I continued to make small tweaks over the times. Maybe I'll revisit it...

I also found my very first stylesheet, that I created when I was 15 (with some help from Dad). Ignore the teenage angst with the declarations for "#kiss".

See the CSS.

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

My Workspace

A Web Developer's Perspective

Lately I have been interested in improving my workflow. I've spent the past month or so trying new ways of doing things in hopes of making my workflow a little better. Not much luck. I can't even find a good blog article for tips.

So I thought I would share my workspace with you.

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Monday, February 23, 2009

Color Preference

#acacac or #b5b5b5?

I am sitting here working on my site, when I randomly decide to pull up the color information with the web dev toolbar.

And I'm thinking My, that's a lot of shades of grey. So I decided to condense them, you know, clean up the color palette a bit (I can pretend to be a designer sometimes by using the jargon).

I asked Scout, sitting next to me, out of pure sillyness, "Which grey do you prefer? #acacac or #b5b5b5?"

Her response was thirty seconds of silence followed by, "... I don't really have a preference."

As a side note, my site does not have that many greys anymore.

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Monday, February 16, 2009

Firefox Keywords

How often do you find yourself going to google.com to do a search? Going to amazon.com to look for a product? Some suggest using the little search box in the top right of most browser, but personally that search box annoys me. Why not make use of the URL bar?

One of my favorite features of Firefox has always been the keyword search. This allows you to add a keyword to a certain search and perform search with that keyboard inside of the URL bar. Now, anytime I want to google something, I simply type in "gg whatever" in my URL bar. Say I want to look up a YouTube video, I then type in "yt video".

In early versions, it was complicated, but the newer versions build it right into the bookmarks and contextual menus. I will demonstrate this for a regular Google search, but this will work on most search fields.

This is how you do it.

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Monday, February 2, 2009