creative
back to the drawing board!
I’m working on a project for a friend right now involving Wordpress, which has got me excited enough to go ahead and overhaul this site once again.
So i will FINALLY be upgrading my WP installation and fixing my ACTUAL theme once and for all! I hope to have this completed by the end of the [...]
home, sick
Been home sick for the past few days. Last night i finally went to see a doctor (at the local Urgent Care) and got a couple of prescriptions. Apparently, i’ve got a real crappy sinus infection that’s spreading to my lungs. I let it happen by not going to the doctor, but i honestly just [...]
stuff and things
Holly- we went to the ER a couple of weeks back. She’s back on insulin. She’s been really up and down a lot lately. It’s rough for us both, but i can’t imagine having to be her and go through that. She’s getting better, though.
Music- i’ve been making music again. Funny thing is, i started [...]
You can quote me on that
For those designers who want to do the fancy-pants block-quotes thing, here is the CSS. Note that you have to put a DIV element in there to give it padding and close the quotes. That’s because the current specification for CSS do not allow for more than one background image for any single element. [...]
Big Urgent Tweak Test
Look out for my B.U.T.T.! I’ve just finished uploading some tweaks to make the Big Urgent Wish theme a little nicer. Please, as always, wear your helmets, and let me know if anything falls on your head. I could always use a good laugh.
I hope to have a sanitized version available soon.
Validation
Whew! So far, Big Urgent Wish passes XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS level 3*!
I have only done the index page, though, so more work is no doubt needed.
*although, due to the opacity: .6 in the CSS for the thickbox plugin I’m using, it doesn’t validate as CSS level 2
Big Urgent Garbage Hunt
The B.U.G. hunt is on! See if you can find all the problems with my new layout… I’ve already identified the ugly 3rd-tier dropdown menu thing on the navbar at the top, but I haven’t had much time yet to test everything out. fixed Later tonight I’ll tweak it and try to get it to [...]
projects
Some projects I am currently involved with/have volunteered for:
The Chickenfish Speaks: CD reviews
The Chickenfish Speaks: possible overhaul with a dynamic, storable backend
volunteered to help with Oregon District.com; haven’t heard anything back lately but it’s still very new
my good friend Melissa is working on an e-commerce project for school
MySpace layout for my friend Rob’s band Group [...]
color layout chart
This is the color chart I made for orchestrating and managing the background images/colors when using both a style switcher and a browser sniffer to determine which background, exactly, to display for each area of the page. You might even find it useful for your own layouts. The key is below.
Note that the header [...]
Phase One of Creative Development
Do you ever get to the last steps of the first major phase of a project, only to freeze up? Don’t get me wrong. This particular freeze will only last, at most, a couple of hours. I’ve just realized that I will be done enough to upload and try out my new Wordpress theme, Big [...]
Big Urgent Wish coming together
Big Urgent Wish 3.0 is nearing readiness! The third subtheme has been completed.
Done:
Organized CSS into sections
Organized images into sections
Where possible, used same image format for images of similar functions
Conditional support (using if (function_exists()) or if (class_exists()) loops) for several useful plugins, including Browser Sniff, CustomComments, Gravatars, Landing sites, Link Indication, Now Reading, Now Watching, Popularity [...]
Big Urgent Wish 3.0
Haven’t been feeling 100%, so I’m working on making my own Wordpress theme from scratch (though I’ll admit to scraping a little code from other themes). My current theme is called “Big Urgent Wish 2.0″, and it’s based on another theme, but i’ve decided to reuse the name and call it 3.0. This one will [...]
Downside, an upside
Finally, after three or four days of nearly agonizingly languishing meditation on the fate of my latest song, comes the breakthrough I’ve been lusting after…
So You Wanna Be a Drummer… Really?
So You Wanna Be a Drummer… Really?
(A Cynical Glimpse into What Challenges Await All the Would-be Drummers in the World)
By my friend, the exceptionally gifted Michael Christmas.
Downside
Lately i’ve been working, taking as much care of Holly as I can humanly manage (and managing to piss her off once in a while, too - oops), trying, frankly desperately, to keep my head above water financially, and trying - my god, I’m trying - to manage my creative life. Primarily at the moment [...]
