Monthly Archives: July 2007
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 myself and regulars. A very family-like atmosphere. After my meal I had the opportunity to talk with the owner when she wasn’t overwhelmed with work…
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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 find reliable health information on the Internet. My purpose in using WordPress as a backend was to speed development time as well as make it…
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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 to be found. Dark, dreary and muddy- not the image we wanted to present to our users. Worse, the secondary color was a web-safe green…
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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 though: I finished my degree, and I will always love information science. I also learned about design and the skills of web standards. I’ve put…
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