June 2009
10 posts
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“One thing that really annoys me is when you view a site with a lot of images and...”
– Excellent tip via camendesign. This man is the markup master. I’m continually awed by his attention to detail in all things web: it shows through his work. I came across this upon being linked from reddit to his pragmatic Video for Everybody! post. I suggest reading it if you have anything to...
Jun 23rd
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Kudos
To whoever is responsible for the redesign of Tumblr’s mobile site. I’m guessing an updated Tumblr app isn’t too far off. I just wish there was an apple-touch-icon for the mobile dashboard and an option to view the page in chromefree mode from the homescreen. The application is nice, sure, but nothing beats full screen landscape browsing goodness.
Jun 23rd
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Jun 22nd
4 tags
WatchWatch
Just saw Adaptation, so naturally I went online to get some background on the film. And I thought: hey, Charlie Kaufman is a wonderful human being. I wonder if he’s made an appearance on the Colbert Report. Turns out he has. I guess this isn’t timely anymore. But it is still good times. Edit: The default Comedy Central video embed might just have the most disgusting markup I’ve ever seen. Here’s...
Jun 22nd
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Freshly Caught
staff: lloyda2: It is not helpful in designing a theme that Tumblr throws in inline style attributes in its preview. Thanks for catching that!  That was left over from an ancient bug.  We just pulled out the style attribute, so it shouldn’t be a problem now. I might as well use this as an opportunity to list a few more issues lingering in Tumblr: The iframe which appears in the top right of...
Jun 19th
101 notes
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Jun 17th
5 tags
Today, my mom is a tumblr user →
Back in February, my mother commissioned me to churn out a redesign for her website to go along with her upcoming book of short stories, set to be released in September. Her former site, also written by myself (back in 2005), was a series of hand-updated html pages. I took this redesign as an opportunity to add some much-needed dynamic content to the site. Because my mom was a bit intimidated by...
Jun 17th
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Jun 15th
27 notes
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Jun 5th
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Compatriot Theme v.2 →
compatriot: Some major updates this time around: Added notes support Changed names for custom colors to make what attributes they change more obvious Made layout colors generally more customizable Fixed some formatting issues Altered reblog mention style to better align with tags in a post Enjoy! As always, contact me if you see any bugs. The updated theme should be in the Theme Garden...
Jun 1st