Apr 23
So it’s been a really long time since I’ve posted a new entry. Long story short (and to paraphrase Shrubya) Parenting is hard. It’s a long hour, tiring messy job and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.
In other news, we’re moving out of our new apartment due to heavy water damage that the management “forgot” to mention. The place seemed really nice until we noticed the black mold seeping through the paint (not food for a place only 3 years old).
Also in other news I just baked my first banana bread from scratch and it is was really good. yum
More news later. In the meantime I’m no longer participating in the cssreboot. It now appears that the new site is nothing more than a digg traffic generating engine. The from scratch gorgeous site former owner Benjamin Adam designed has been replaced with an unskinned Pligg install and all registration info was dumped in the move. Very sad.
May 01
After waking up this morning, pouring myself some coffee and taking a look at all of the designs on both May 1 Reboot & on CSS Reboot I’m incredibly impressed with all of the creativity and work people put into their sites. I’m not sure how I stack up in comparison but I’m happy with things right now.
I’m also looking forward to a tiny bit of downtime before I head back to doing more work. I’d like to get the comment system secure enough to reopen it. Ah such is the peril of being both a Network Engineer and a designer, I tend to find myself a bit on the side of being obsessive with security. Hopefully I can iron out the problems inherent to the spam friendly comment system built into wordpress.
Anyhow I’m hugely impressed with the way Adam handled the voting for sites on cssreboot but less than impressed with the organizational elements of the may1reboot system. Voting there is a tiny bit mystery meat navigation. Hopefully next year’s site fixes those issues.
Oh well, I’m off to go and continue looking at all the designs and to vote.
Apr 30
Well after a few different rough layouts that had differing levels of completion I am quite happy to say that the “reboot” edition created for the May 1st Reboot & CSS Reboot is complete.
I started off with a page that was moderately easy to update and 100% css/xhtml compliant but completely lacking an integrated anything. After deciding to use wordpress as the main software on my site (woo aren’t I trendy?) I sat down and took a look at the sites that inspire me most and what I wanted out of my site. I’m pretty sure I covered everything I want for the public side at the moment. Although I do look forward to an integrated blogroll plugin that works similarly to del.icio.us at some point.
Next up on my plate is to start working on an integrated client area for the private side as well as to work on the “hopefully soon to launch” Gallery 2 install (that’ll happen once I finish familiarizing the template system and backend of G2. Sometime before or after that (see how precise my timing can be?) I’ll most likely be revamping the entire backend of this site again in preparation for the styleswitcher and the 2nd stylesheet (which has a working title of “Sonata”). That stylesheet will require some hefty backend javascripting but will be quite worth it in the end.
Finally before I wrap this initial first post up I’d like to thank the following designers/sites for inspiring me to create this site.
Thanks again and I hope you enjoy my site
Peace,
Chris
