Posts Tagged ‘web design’

Technical Links Redux

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Today I have added two new Technical Resources.

First up is W3Schools, a link I’m sure anyone teaching themselves flash has found extremely useful.  It’s a collection of step by step tutorials on how to do things (Not just in flash but in other areas as well).

Second is DevX, Which is similar but tends to focus more on explaining the concepts used in different web languages. It also has sections on programming languages.

Now that links are spoken of, I’d like to bring up the topic of focus and determination again. Seeing as I’ve set myself the goal of having the new version of wordpress installed on my blog by tomorrow night (Along with other goals of mine), I have a lot of work to do ahead of me! Especially since I don’t want to lose the work I’ve put into my current style. SO I shall have to move ahead on making my own style for this blog.

Among the advantages of such, this will allow me to better establish my unique web identity (Much more so then my current variation on the default style). And it’ll be a useful learning experience, particularly with the work I need to do in learning various web technologies. It’ll also allow me to better keep a finger on the pulse of what’s hot and cutting edge on the net, which is always a plus.

Until next time!

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Witness the Fitness?

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Witness the Fitness was a possible name for the Health and Wellness Center when it was under construction at the University of Lethbridge (Where I am currently attending to work on a degree in New Media). The acronym was particularly popular amongst the students.

Now on the subject of site design and management, I have 2 things:

First is that apparently I require an update to wordpress (Oh JOY)

Second is that I am getting a lot of spam on certain entries.

Now we all seek attention on the internet, more pageviews is more potential capital to be gained, a symbol of doing well in it’s own way. But negative attention occurs and we instead have a ton of spam, which is frustrating for a moderator and for people looking for content in comments.

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Martialing an Art

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Recently it was decided that I should be developing a martial art (Extension of, if you can’t do, teach) in that I need a measure of discipline and ability in my life that I currently lack.

To do so I should set down the concepts I wish to include.

1.Flow – A martial art is about moving your body, and often involves moving from one position or style to another. Being able to flow between stances or footworks is probably a good advantage

2. Movement – Learning Parkour is something I want as part of it, area and target denial being excellent strategies for self defense

3. Efficiency – Using your own or your opponents energy to the best ability is especially important. In a real situation running out of energy can lead to bad situations.

4. Determination – One of the hardest things to do with any long term goal is to stay motivated. Some of us are lucky enough that through training or practice we develope the habit of success, for keeping motivated. It is one of the things I want to develope through training.

That’s all for now, but I think it’s a pretty solid base. Now to practice some Tai Chi!

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“Aha!” Moments of Glee

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Well, I found one of the twitters, figured out how to put in the code, I suppose twitter counts as a technical resource in this one?

http://www.twitter.com/

They give you the code to put into your journal.  Next on the list of projects? Editing the style on this to something that I think suits me a bit better, as well as see if I can integrate it into the style of my up and coming artist selp improvement website.

Furthermore, I found the Time Travelling twitter! My alter Ego will once again have a place below the Regular Twitter. Cherio.

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Crazy Happy Morning Fun Time!

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Also known as “Sarcasm and Fun with FTP” (Frustrating Transfer Protocol)

Well looks like the site is updated now.  I was a little bit worried with how many times I had to recopy the entire directory. But eventually it all copied over without corrupting or dropping files, updated the database, and I don’t think there are any bugs… yet.  And it seems I updated just in time, as version 2.7 of wordpress should be out soon.

Technical resource link? WACHOW

This guide got me through this morning, and the instructions are fairly clear (I like coding, but I can be a real meathead at it).

The design part of web design is fascinating.  For me, I’ve always been frustrated with it because I kept thinking I was doing it wrong.  I’ve since learned that there are many styles and methods for design.  Much as there are certain tools we use to make it easier for users or improve interface, these are building blocks that we as designers use to build our sites.

Knowing this has allowed me to approach design with a new confidence and focus.  I’m playing with some ideas for a project I’m working on (A self help website for artists!), but I’m trying to avoid my desire to stick in cool things and really focus on having a clear and concise design to portray the information. While I’m at it, I want to come up with a new style for this blog, so I’m slowly picking my way into php and css.

EDIT: I originally wrote this as a “Page” on the site, much to my terror when I thought it had randomly deleted all my posts. It seems silly now that I’ve cleared it up on my end.

EDIT 2: And I have just noticed my twitter feeds are gone.  Off to find the solution!

EDIT 3: And I can’t for the life of me remember the name of that other twitter, or what email I used for it.

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