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So while I was redesigning my site, I needed somewhere to develop the new design. I didn’t want to have to setup a sub-domain on the live site because that would be a pain to have to FTP files up everytime I changed something. So I installed XAMPP on my computer. Basically, XAMPP is a all in one Apache web server. It installs Apache, PHP, MySQL…everything I needed. Once you install it, you get…

Finally, I launched my redesign. I still have a little bit of cleanup to do in the blog section, but Sunday night football is on, so that’s not going to happen tonight. The goal for this redesign was to simplify. I’m only using a couple of images, and sticking to a pretty strict grid. I would say the inspiration for this redesign is definitely Khoi Vinh. So the headings (or at least most of th…

I’ve been busy for the last week or so working on the new site design. Hopefully I’m going to launch it within the next few days…maybe even tonight. I would say the theme for this redesign is simplicity. I’m no designer, so I should stop pretending, right? A lot of good links from this week. I guess once I finally finish the redesign, a real article will come…I promise. CSS - A Recipe for Success…

After a nice short week, and 2 days of eating and football, time to share my links for the week. This collection is only until Wednesday, but I still found a bunch of interesting things. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Typography I need to go back and watch this movie again after seeing all the great typography that is used. Someone definitely put a lot of time and effort into choosing t…

I decided to upgrade to the new version of Wordpress tonight. I wanted to get that out of the way before I finish and launch the redesigned site. The upgrade went smoothly, just noticed a couple of issues. The display of my comments got a little wacky. I’m not sure what exactly happened, but I’m not gonna worry about it too much since the redesign is launching soon. Also, it broke my AJAX commen…

Finally, it’s the weekend. I had to work basically all last weekend, and it’s great to finally get a break. Got a pretty good collection of links for this week. Better Web Forms: Redesigning eBay’s Registration Garrett Dimon gives a really good breakdown of a redesign of eBay’s registration form. Forms are easily one of the most important elements of web design, yet they are one of the least thou…

Wow, I’m pathetic. I can hardly keep up with one blog post a week. I’m just so busy at work right now. I stopped reading my RSS feeds on Wednesday, so this is really like half-a-week’s worth of links. I’ve got a big project for work launching on Sunday, so hopefully I will have more free time. I’m also in the process of working up a new design for the site. I don’t necessarily feel like the curre…

I didn’t read too many great things this week, but there were a few. A couple of them are a little of topic, but I still found them really interesting to read. Advanced CSS Menu This is a continuation from last week’s entry, Design Watercolor Effect Menu. This entry shows how to create the XHTML and CSS from the menu that was designed last week. jQuery Demo: Creating A Sliding Image Puzzle Pl…

Yeah, so I missed last week. What can I say, I was moving into my condo! I almost missed this week too…I got my wisdom teeth pulled this morning. But hey, I felt basically back to normal by about 2 this afternoon. So here’s what I found interesting this week. Moving Along So, it looks likes we might be seeing some new entries on the CSS Zen Garden. Yeah the site is been around for a while and a…

Ok, so Fridays it is. I guess there are pros to posting this on Friday evening. There is plenty of time on the weekends to browse and read articles. Or if you aren’t a weekend reader, they will be waiting in your RSS Reader on Monday morning. Sounds good to me. Just a few good links from this week: Learn Apache mod_rewrite: 13 Real-World Examples Mod_Rewrite is awesome. While there are plenty o…