The Asinine
Saturday, July 15, 2006
I changed things!
Here's a quick post to point out to all of you that don't come here that I changed the template to my site. While I liked the old one, I wanted an 'old paper' look to it ... what I ended up with was aged leather. I like it anyway since I did the images. What I am really happy with is how the faded section at the top turned out, again I did that!
So anyway, since I just posted less than an hour or two ago I have nothing real to say.
Peace. ¶ 12:43 AM 0 comments
Here's a quick post to point out to all of you that don't come here that I changed the template to my site. While I liked the old one, I wanted an 'old paper' look to it ... what I ended up with was aged leather. I like it anyway since I did the images. What I am really happy with is how the faded section at the top turned out, again I did that!
So anyway, since I just posted less than an hour or two ago I have nothing real to say.
Peace. ¶ 12:43 AM 0 comments
Friday, July 14, 2006
Stuff I've learned on the web version 1.0
TGS represents The Gamer Sanctuary on Oak Grove Road in Hattiesburg, MS. This is important because I am designing their website (so far that is -- I may piss the owner off yet). I intend to share some of the things I have learned.
1) Do NOT try to make a three column page utilizing the current CSS. You will drive your face into a wall ... unless you have a nifty little JavaScript that someone else wrote. The JavaScript I mention is from Shaun Inman and is located on his site. While I can't say my designs are top grade stellar stuff, I like the look of my current project so far.
2) If you have access to a cPanel, use it despite it's clunky appearance. I've been using FireFTP an extension for Firefox browsers that allows you to upload and download from your sites. I liked it, but I have now come to hate it. Many of my images wouldn't show properly until I utilized my cPanel to upload them. That is very frustrating for one such as I.
3) Lipsum. Sounds like what you do when Jane has two lips and Bobby has two lips, but it isn't about Jane and Bobby at all. No, Lipsum is short for lorem ipsum which are the first two words of a series of gibberish Latin words commonly used in typesetting. People get distracted by words that they can read when used in a mock-up of some printed media. If the designer wants the person examining the mock-up to pay attention to the design and not the content, then something similar to the written language but uncipherable is needed. That is lipsum. A great site for checking out more lipsum is www.lipsum.com. Check it out. They explain the whole thing much better than I ever could, and besides I got my information from them.
4) php is cool, but the manual is cooler. By that phrase I mean that while coding basic php syntax is fun (for a geek like me) having the manual (located online AND downloadable) is so much nicer, especially when you can search the document for anything you need. Having the right functions is a real help. I'm using the php manual found at us3.php.net. A manual is a MUST have!
5) CSS is your friend, and so are php includes and good security sources. Expand your knowledge base with these topics.
Ok that's it for me. I'm sleepy now. Have fun storming the castle and all that.
Peace. ¶ 11:30 PM 0 comments
TGS represents The Gamer Sanctuary on Oak Grove Road in Hattiesburg, MS. This is important because I am designing their website (so far that is -- I may piss the owner off yet). I intend to share some of the things I have learned.
1) Do NOT try to make a three column page utilizing the current CSS. You will drive your face into a wall ... unless you have a nifty little JavaScript that someone else wrote. The JavaScript I mention is from Shaun Inman and is located on his site. While I can't say my designs are top grade stellar stuff, I like the look of my current project so far.
2) If you have access to a cPanel, use it despite it's clunky appearance. I've been using FireFTP an extension for Firefox browsers that allows you to upload and download from your sites. I liked it, but I have now come to hate it. Many of my images wouldn't show properly until I utilized my cPanel to upload them. That is very frustrating for one such as I.
3) Lipsum. Sounds like what you do when Jane has two lips and Bobby has two lips, but it isn't about Jane and Bobby at all. No, Lipsum is short for lorem ipsum which are the first two words of a series of gibberish Latin words commonly used in typesetting. People get distracted by words that they can read when used in a mock-up of some printed media. If the designer wants the person examining the mock-up to pay attention to the design and not the content, then something similar to the written language but uncipherable is needed. That is lipsum. A great site for checking out more lipsum is www.lipsum.com. Check it out. They explain the whole thing much better than I ever could, and besides I got my information from them.
4) php is cool, but the manual is cooler. By that phrase I mean that while coding basic php syntax is fun (for a geek like me) having the manual (located online AND downloadable) is so much nicer, especially when you can search the document for anything you need. Having the right functions is a real help. I'm using the php manual found at us3.php.net. A manual is a MUST have!
5) CSS is your friend, and so are php includes and good security sources. Expand your knowledge base with these topics.
Ok that's it for me. I'm sleepy now. Have fun storming the castle and all that.
Peace. ¶ 11:30 PM 0 comments
