Archive for the 'Website Updates' Category

• 06.18.07 Upgraded posted in Website Updates

  Well, I’ve been designing all of my new Wordpress sites with version 2.2, but just now finally got around to upgrading the blog. It seemed like a fairly painless experience with just a couple of plugin related glitches. I did it through Subversion so I’ll revert if anything goes terribly wrong. If you notice anything amiss on the blog, please let me know! In the meantime I’ve picked up work again on the Wordpress Theme Bundle for TextMate and will be releasing an updated version with a whole bunch of new, more advanced tags and options. I’m also almost through the testing phase for UTW-rpc and have a new AutoTag bundle to go with it. Still open to Beta Testers on that one, if you want in, let me know.

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• 05.29.07 Speeeeed posted in Web Design, Website Updates

  Did you notice? The blog is WAY faster than it was yesterday. I got my CSS compressed with Marco’s plugin, my javascript optimized, compressed and re-ordered, and my pages being served with gzip compression. Man, what a difference. My page load times cut in half. Read on for a few tricks I learned today…

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• 05.24.07 Finally Finished, Almost posted in Web Design, Website Updates

  I finally went live with the new version of the Circle Six Design site. It’s pretty heavy on the prototype.js with a lot of custom effects, but it’s completely valid and works just fine if you turn off javascript ;). It’s pretty much custom code from the ground up, still based on Wordpress, of course. I had a lot of fun doing this one and I’d love to know what you think!

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• 04.06.07 Finally Subverted posted in Geekery, Website Updates

  I finally took a few minutes and finished learning what I needed to know about Subversion in order to get my entire blog under revision control. I now have a local working copy that I can modify and test with a local database, and then when it’s working I can commit the changes to the main repository. Then I just update the live install from the server and everything is synced up. Now I can revert my changes, keep a log, and feel a little safer when upgrading. And I can work from multiple machines without getting out of sync! I’m not convinced I’ve got the ideal workflow yet, but it’s working, and I’m happy. As I perfect the workflow, I intend for it to become a part of every web project I work on…

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• 04.05.07 Another VIRB (re)design posted in Website Updates

  I got bored again. The microphone theme is going back up, but the VIRB profile is staying, no matter how bad it sucks.

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• 04.05.07 A Chilly Day to be Naked posted in Website Updates

  We got some April snow here in Minnesota yesterday. But that didn’t stop me from stripping off my CSS and jumping in the CSS Naked Day lake. So if you’re here and it’s April 5th, you’re seeing my site at it’s nudest, most semantic state. I didn’t disable all of the stylesheets loaded by javascript (lightbox, extended live archives, etc.), so some parts of the site function strangely well in the context of a barren landscape, but I feel like I participated.

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• 04.04.07 Fresh Strawberry Design posted in Website Updates

  Admittedly not my best design ever, so I saved the microphone theme in its entirety until this is a little more smoothed out, but here’s my latest blog design. It’s got a light-up strawberry. Seriously, touch it. It’s scary. There are a lot of little hidden CSS tricks throughout the site, evidence that I’m getting better at my trade. I’m still very unhappy with the overall readability and having trouble finding that line between fun design and practical design. I’ll get there. I can do one or the other, I’m just working out how to combine them…

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• 02.21.07 Upgrade and UTW-RPC Test posted in Website Updates

  RUDE was kind enough to inform me that Wordpress 2.1.1 would include some changes to the xmlrpc file that might affect the UTW-RPC plugin. So I tested it on my local server and it seems alright, I ran a diff and didn’t see that any areas overridden by UTW-RPC were changed, and this is the official live test to make sure everything is cool. If you’re reading this, then I’m approving UTW-RPC 1.2 for use with Wordpress 2.1.1. I just checked my other xmlrpc plugin (Related Posts RPC) and everything’s working fine.

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• 02.09.07 A new design brewing… posted in Website Updates

  No, this probably won’t be the actual new design. But it might be the direction I’m heading. I’m feeling like doing a “designer’s” design, with a strong grid, proper line heights, nice typography and a clean layout. No 3D shadows or reflections, just nice Gestalt theory. And maybe I’ll actually get it done once I catch up with all of my client jobs that are waiting in the wings. I’m definitely not complaining about having jobs waiting in the wings, though.

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• 02.04.07 I need my space, part 3 posted in Website Updates

  For anyone who cares to know more about me than the last few movies have revealed, I’ve updated my myspace profile again. I’m not asking anyone to read it, but it sure looks pretty. And no, you probably can’t have the code, unless you can steal it yourself. If you can’t figure out how to rip the code from a page, you probably should just stick with the Hillary Duff bling things with all the flashensparkenbitzenflyin (it’s German, I think.).

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