Archive for November, 2008

  Nov 28 2008  

The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget

Maintaining your own site can be a real chore.  That’s one of the many reasons why I like WordPress so much: it makes updating and adding new content easy.
But what about non-content updates?  I’m talking about tweaking something that doesn’t look exactly the way you’d like it to visually.  A lot of people seem to [...]

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  Nov 24 2008  

Why I Love NPR

Going to school at Missouri State University, I always ended up riding the shuttles since a lot of my classes were downtown in the design building; this is a good 10 minute drive from the main campus.  During my travels on the Bearline, the drivers would inevitable have NPR going over the intercom system.  I [...]

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  Nov 21 2008  

Solace From The Pros

It’s always a good idea to try and learn from your peers.  I try and follow the articles from industry experts and other people influential in web design and development on a regular basis.  And in doing so the other day, I found this post by Jason Santa Maria.  Cameron Moll left an interesting comment [...]

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  Nov 18 2008  

Web Design as Sculpting

In my travels as of late trying to get this site tuned to how I want it, I’ve spent a lot of time over at WordPress going through documentation, looking at plugins, etc.  One of the things that I kept noticing was their little slogan/stylish saying in the bottom right corner of the page:

This got [...]

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  Nov 17 2008  

On Disappointment & Pandora (pt. 2)

I wrote a post the other day detailing my adventures with and subsequent complaints of Pandora’s feed/widget creation.  However, at the end of it all, I was victorious and the proud new owner of a customized widget showing my bookmarked songs and their album covers…or so I thought.
The nasty surprise
Naturally after working with something like [...]

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  Nov 14 2008  

On Disappointment & Pandora

One of the things that I’ve been dying to get up and running on this site is a live feed to my bookmarked songs on Pandora.  I’ve always wanted something that displays a little album art, because I think that adds extra flair to what is otherwise just additional bits of boring data.  However, little [...]

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  Nov 13 2008  

goFnC of First & Calvary Presbyterian Church

A WordPress design for the new face of the college ministry at First & Calvary Presbyterian Church.

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  Nov 7 2008  

Maiden Voyage

The dawning of a new age.  The first great step.  The beginning of a journey.  The thing that I’m going to do when I’m bored at work.
I’m blogging.  I mean it this time.  I’ve had a few false starts, separated by chunks of time where I’ve redesigned this site (I think it’s on version 12.0.9.236.4 [...]

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