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Buying local is good for your business too

July 18, 2007
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Recently I was running errands and noticed a sign for a new local restaurant along the way. Always looking for something to ward off the chain food blahs, I stopped on my way home. It was nice inside, obviously a new family-run place, busy with what looked like a mix of people dropping in like [...]

Hacking WordPress as an easy updatable link directory

July 18, 2007
In Design
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By now WordPress has been bent, folded and mangled in any number of ways to for custom CMSs. One of the most interesting ways I did it was to both manage a website and create a small Yahoo! like link directory within it. The website was part of a grant project for helping senior citizens [...]

Working with Bad Organizational Colors

July 17, 2007
In Design
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My first professional website. I was so excited, I had worked so hard to position myself within my department for it. Then I realized, I had to work with our official color: orange. Not a nice warm earth tone, or a bright energizing version either. But what I’m pretty sure is the ugliest web-safe color [...]

Introduction

July 17, 2007
In Personal
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I’m a librarian who’s leaving academia to enter the world of web design. Yes, I am insane but that doesn’t have any bearing here. In truth, design is where my heart has been since my first web class in grad school. It just took me a few years to realize it. They’ve been productive years [...]