Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Tue
11
Oct
2005

Fonts to Purchase

I have tons of little pieces of paper all over with names of fonts I want to eventually purchase. I'm going to start posting them in this entry for future reference.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Tue
16
Aug
2005

Web Design Links and A Firefox Tip

Web Design Stuff

There is a really cool Firefox extention that I found today over at Lockergnome called Web Developer. I haven't really had time to figure out all that it can do yet, but there are tons of features. It has a css editor, view source, outline cetain page elements (tables, links w/o title attributes), the list goes on and on. I'm looking forward to see what all it can do.

Since I'm looking into working for myself, I've been checking out the web design competition. A lot of them say they work with Drupal (a CMS). I figured I'd better post a link to remind myself to look into it.

Cool Firefox Tip

Using Firefox, I had often wondered how popups managed to still popup when I have them blocked. From petebevin.com:
Like you, I love Firefox for many reasons, including popup blocking. So over the last few weeks I’ve been surprised to see occasional popups.

It turns out that some clever people figured out that you could launch popups from Flash, getting around the Firefox default settings.

Fortunately, you can get around it:
  1. Type about:config into the Firefox location bar.
  2. Right-click on the page and select New and then Integer.
  3. Name it privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins
  4. Set the value to 2.


The possible values are:
  • 0: Allow all popups from plugins.
  • 1: Allow popups, but limit them to dom.popup_maximum.
  • 2: Block popups from plugins.
  • 3: Block popups from plugins, even on whitelisted sites.

Saturday, May 21, 2005

Sat
21
May
2005

I Is A Graduate

I had my Platt College graduation ceremony today. I officially have a degree in Web Design. Whoo Hoo!



I didn't go to bed Thursday night because I thought I had to have my final web project done in order to get my degree (have I mentioned before that I'm the Queen of Procrastination™?. I found out on Friday that I was graduating regardless. In fact, I graduated with honors! Oh, well. So be it. I got the project done and off my conscience.

My friend Dave took our little party to Chilis for lunch today. YUM! I had a raspberry margarita to celebrate.

Now I have to get my design business going. Marcus is trying to drum up business for me. I haven't been to the pizza place in the last two days and it has felt so damned good.

Found a link to a printable CSS Cheat Sheet. This is really cool. I'm going to go print it right now.

Monday, May 16, 2005

Mon
16
May
2005

CSS Dropcaps

Here's an excellent tutorial for doing dropcaps with CSS.

Sunday, March 27, 2005

Sun
27
Mar
2005

I Found My Color Scheme Generator

Ahhh, the panic is over. I've been using this handy Color Scheme Generator for awhile now. It was one of the Safari bookmarks I lost the other day after the fateful Library trashing. I thought I had linked to it in my blog, but apparently not. I've been frantically searching the web for it and I found it! I'm going to have to start a page of categorized links, I guess. I hate coming across those kinds of pages in search engines, but I guess they're necessary.