I’m looking seriously into going back to Del.icio.us. I just haven’t found Ma.gnol.ia to be everything I want, and del.icio.us just keeps adding the features.
I haven’t switched out my Links section yet, nor my live Mag.nolia preview. But I probably will be.
So if you see a giant influx of links into my feed, well, that’s why.
I’ve updated my link-fu section. I moved to Mag.nol.ia, for a number of reasons. I tried Del.icio.us for a while, and while I like it fine, it just didn’t seem right. Mag.nol.ia didn’t either for a while.
Then I saw Jeff Croft move his entire Mag.nol.ia site into his site, so it’s transparent. I was jealous, so I immediately copied it. You can see the results here.
I’ll post up the code at some point, because getting it to work was actually a pain in the ass at first.
The next thing I want to do to this is get the rss feed back on track (it’s currently being built on Mag.nol.ia. My feedburner feed points to it as well. I currently have two feeds, one for this site, one for my links. )
I’m going to be switching stuff around yet again. I keep finding that I’m trying to use this one site/blog for at least 5 different purposes. (blog, portfolio, links, resume, experiments)
Step one is that I’m going to stop really posting all my (remaindered, elsewhere, link-fu, meme) links here, and start posting them on Mag.nol.ia. I was going to start using Del.icio.us but this great post from Jeff Croft showed me that Mag.nol.ia is a better long-term solution.
So I’ll still post here, for a while. I’ll probably break this site apart at some point, break down the areas I identified above. So if you want my selection of links, be sure and mark down my Mag.nol.ia account into your reader.
Okay, I’m going to move this site from MoveableType to WordPress. We’ll see how it goes. If you get your feeds from [Feedburner][1] you’ll be all fine. If you get them elsehow, please change to the new feed. This new feed will contain both [Link-Fu][2] and Blog-Fu.
[1]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/blog-fu
[2]: http://feeds.feedburner.com/link-fu
After many, many posts on the subject, I’ve finally put together a [stand-alone, master page that collects my propaganda links][1].
I’ve tried to categorize and talk about the various aspects of propaganda here, and any new posts on this subject I’ll also include on this page.
I’ve also linked to my [cobbled together form example][2]. This isn’t a self-coded form, but rather a collection of effects from all over the place. I’ll occasionally update this form and the script to include any new form effects I enjoy/use.
[1]: http://simiandesign.com/other/propaganda.php
[2]: http://simiandesign.com/other/forms/index.php
Well, I’ve added my portfolio to the nav-bar. To a whopping three starting entries. Yeah, it’s weak. But I’m transferring my old, crappy code over to this new crappy format, and it takes time. And I figured why wait until I had it all planned out and done? You’ve seen the transition from the old crap to the new crap live, so why shouldn’t the portfolio be any different? So it’s live, and it’ll grow as I add new stuff.
Seriously, the more I think about it, the more I think that any person browsing this site (all four of you) won’t give two shits about me adding the portfolio. But I’m hoping that the ONE person that has an opening for that PERFECT job for me will come by and realize that I’m the ideal person. Seriously. I’m waiting.
UPDATE, Sunday night. Well, I’ve been able to crank along tonight. Four more in the portfolio section up. More will probably roll out tonight. Maybe the fact that I’m half-drunk helps. Of course, the fact that I’m half-drunk really can’t help out my legendary proofing skills. But, boy, imagine if it did. I could go into work, and make an arguement for it. “No, seriously Boss. By me having a couple of beers at lunch, my proofing abilities go through the roof.” That would be great. Boy, just look at me ramble. I really ought to delete this….
Okay. I’ve run into a problem that I don’t think can be solved using today’s technology of standards and CSS. I think it can only be solved by *gasp*, a table. A TABLE USED FOR LAYOUT.
Done shuddering yet? I haven’t decided if I’ll go this route, for many different reasons. (I don’t like the site, I’ll want to provide different layouts ala’ the Garden, I fucking hate tables…)
But what I want to do is have the current monkey and name you see on the left bar (kinda) appear on the bottom of the page. It’s a fixed sidebar, which has issues with IE. That can be worked around, albietly not easily. But with the way you have the code placed (inside two page-wrapper divs) messes that up a little bit. But you want those generic wrapper-divs for long-term options (see different layout options above).
I added a top banner with a fixed width. That screws with my 100% height. Okay, there are ways to address this. But they involve scripting to rewrite the
to the window’s innerHeight. I’d much rather use a CSS declaration of
or
So these two issues, combined, raise enough of a concern to put the brakes on this latest whim of mine. I’m thinking I might just change the layout, tweak it further and maybe move the monkey.
…later….Okay, the monkey is moved, and the
is gone, for now.
I am moving the current syndication feeds for the site. It’s just a little back-end house cleaning, tidy up the directory a little bit. But if you’re currently using the feeds, you’ll want to update your subscription.
The new feeds are:
I’ll be sending out a “last-call” update next week when I turn off the current feeds
Well, I’ve finally moved towards implementing a design. I’m not super excited by this design. It has potential, but I’m not sure how buried that potential is.
But given the fact that my creative mind feels like week-old jello, I figured it was better to upload this, and deal with it, than continue with nothing.
Nothing was what was here, and I was worried I’d get used to it. And then wait for that amazing breakthough.
Problem is my creative streak (re: jello). I think one of the issues is that at my new place I don’t have a creative den/area/desk/studio set up. Makes it somewhat tough to sit down and just pound out the work.
Anyways, sorry for the rambling. I know that this design isn’t super-great. I’d grade it a C- at this moment. I’d like to get it to a B before I decide on keeping it.
Okay, I have been working on the site redesign. Not on anything visible, but on the underlying code. Based on an interesting post by Andy Clarke on naming conventions for layout, I thought I’d try and standarize a bit on my actual code.
My goal is to get a template that I can reuse for projects as needed, with modifications for various design problems. But a standard base. I’m getting there.
I don’t want to rush this, but would rather get it right. I think I rushed my previous site, and reworking it was a pain, as it grew cobbled and patched real quickly. I’m trying to avoid that, and make an extendable format.
So, once I get the code framework in place, then I’ll tackle navigation, and then the external, non-blog pages.
Then the design. Which will probably force some code-rewriting. So you’ll probably be stuck with this boring layout for a while. But the end goal is a noble one I think. I’m trying to lay out a repeatable framework that can incorporate modifications with ease. I hope it’ll work like I plan.
Okay, so far the template that I’ll move forward with is thus:
I’m adding in the second container div to allow for double background images if needed. And I’ll follow the same naming convention if I need a double div in any of the subareas (content2, etc).