twinfountain news

New fonts

2011-07-29T14:49:00.002-04:00

A couple months ago I got tired of the basic web fonts I was using on my site. (I believe they were Verdana and Georgia.) I'm not running fonts from a trial account on typekit.com. I even have a colophon.

This blog does not run them.

Rage

2010-10-27T15:35:00.002-04:00

Being driven insane by IE's CSS failings. This article made my heart smile.

Changes, past and recent.

2010-10-16T14:16:00.000-04:00

I added a jQuery menu dealie to the main site navigation. Clicking on Work or Blogs will show you what I mean. Gotta stay relevant or something.

Updates

2010-08-16T15:23:00.001-04:00

This blog is sooooo neglected. I work all day, why would I want to blog about it?
I use the http://twinfountain.tumblr.com for comics, video games and pop culture stuff.
I'm turning http://twinfountain.wordpress.com into a booze blog.

Poor blogspot.

WordPress

2009-04-30T14:12:00.002-04:00

I've started twinfountain.wordpress.com. It's a testing ground for content management and tagging to use in other sites, particularly the soon to be significantly de-Flashed Pratt CSDS site. That site is going to be a wonderful confluence of technologies when we get it right.

Oh and also...

2009-04-07T13:16:00.003-04:00

The Pratt CSDS site is now live. Constantly in flux and with a Flash based interactive map. Luckily I only have to manage and update the Flash, not write real code.

Redesigning

2009-04-07T12:15:00.003-04:00

While I should focus on redesigning the actual site, I think the blog needs an overhaul too. Hating templates, but not sure what to do otherwise.

UPDATE: Went with this strange template, with minor edits. Both columns are fluid based on percentages, I imagine. We'll see.

Checking back in.

2009-03-30T12:09:00.003-04:00

The site mentioned in the last post was fredandmartin.com which is now live. I like it very much, though there is a glitch in Safari and Opera where the site seems to "jump" when changing pages. So more than 2 months later, that's done.

new things

2009-01-20T18:21:00.005-05:00

Began new project today as we began a new administration. A playful artsy portfolio site. I borrowed a bit of the design for twinfountain.com's 404 page. I should probably give it to the client. They are the designers. I probably should not have mentioned it.

I also tidied up the design of twinfountain.com. Take a little look-see. It's cleaner and a bit more modern, if you ask me.

e-commerce preferences

2008-12-08T16:29:00.003-05:00

A client's site needs some kind of shopping cart to sell gift certificates. For my time and money, the simple and elegant solution is PayPal.
However, it seems that people don't like PayPal, or so I am told. Is signing up for an account that takes money from the same place any other shop would take money too complicated? If you've ever bought anything on eBay, odds are that you already have a PayPal account. Is it the leaving of the site you are shopping on? That might make sense as one doesn't generally leave the store they are shopping in to pay for their goods elsewhere in the brick-and-mortar world.

The current alternative is the e-shop that comes bundled with the client's hosting plan. It is a large store with more features than I probably understand. A template must be chosen and customized. The items for sale may require photos and there will be a fair amount of data entry. It may require an SSL certificate. Plus who knows what else.
But it may be prettier and look more like the original site.

What to do?

Flash update

2008-10-16T12:19:00.000-04:00

Still stupid and unintuitive.

The Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum

2008-09-27T17:21:00.005-04:00

Now live!
blauveltartmuseum.com

A lovely mix of XHTML, CSS, and Lightbox. Coded by me. Design by Michelle W. Nix for Scott & Nix, Inc.

Overwhelming

2008-09-04T16:34:00.008-04:00

Busy busy week.
one-earth.com, opencreation.net, The Hiram Blauvelt Museum, artdealers.org, re-learning Flash.

Found this dandy in-browser javascript photo pop-up dealie:
Lightbox 2
I used it here with great success.

stupid Flash

2008-08-24T20:33:00.002-04:00

Flash is cheesing me off.

Current obsession

2008-08-22T13:42:00.004-04:00

Join, or Die.

switching it up

2008-08-22T12:51:00.002-04:00

I converted this from a blogger site to a blogspot site. Now to add all of the little gadgets and such that make blogs great.

New Stool

2008-04-21T12:16:00.001-04:00

Got it Friday night. Don't ask how or where.

Update? Something.

2008-04-14T13:18:00.001-04:00

Still working on the start up and learning Drupal everyday.
Normally I don't post files or links (or much of anything) but I love this.

Where I've been

2008-02-21T22:46:00.000-05:00

I'm working on something big.

Minor updates

2007-11-13T15:28:00.000-05:00

Changed some CSS rules and some links, no big deal.

At last

2007-10-31T13:39:00.000-04:00

3 months and 1 day since last post? Wow. What a slacker you turned out to be.
Anywho, it's Halloween and here's your treat:
The reCAPTCHA dealie is finally up and active on the contact page. It's only took me 15 minutes of serious thought/work. I could've done this months ago when I first mentioned it.

problems

2007-07-30T15:32:00.000-04:00

My internet service has been on the blink for a while now, thus the lack of updates. I really gotta get moving on that capthcha thing, because the spam has rolled right in.

Human verifcation, part 2

2007-05-29T19:08:00.000-04:00

This isn't quite as easy as I hoped. The technology is called CAPTCHA (read more at Wikipedia).
At this point I'm opting for a service called reCAPTCHA, which uses the words to help digitize books. Sounds like a good thing.

It looks like this is going to take some serious back end which I could honestly use more practice doing anyway.

But not today. I just made myself a lovely margarita with fresh squeezed key lime juice. So that's what I'm doing right now.

human verification

2007-05-29T18:13:00.000-04:00

I'm looking into this. You know those little pictacodes where you have to enter a blurry word or number combination to prove that you're not some sort of spam bot.
I've received enough gibberish emails through my site to want to try this. Hopefully it'll be up in the next day or so.

Reminder.

2007-05-06T17:14:00.000-04:00

Dear Worker Self,

Don't forget to add favicon.

Sincerely,
Lazy Self.

May update.

2007-05-04T17:17:00.000-04:00

The pertinent content up all up and functional as far as I know.
It's May thought I should put up a post. Kentucky Derby tomorrow.

Juleps!

Progress report

2007-04-27T16:02:00.000-04:00

Resume is up. Web, compositing, and video sections of my portfolio have been updated and
are active. Just letting you know.

Who are you?

Survey

2007-04-27T13:31:00.000-04:00

Take the survey if you're a web person too.

Here's why I took it: http://www.zeldman.com/2007/04/25/the-profession-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/
Love Zeldman, love A List Apart. Gotta learn somewhere.

In case you're wondering...

2007-04-26T19:55:00.000-04:00

The bit on the home page that says, "lies told" refers to image retouching and manipulation.

That doesn't mean I won't lie to you.

New toys.

2007-04-26T19:44:00.000-04:00

I just started playing with the new Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. The interface is obviously different than my old WYSIWYG, but then again GoLive is dead. So far, so good.

Better still.

2007-03-12T18:09:00.000-04:00

Switched to Georgia serif family. Hit the road Trebuchet!
Post titles are still Verdana, and they'll stay that way for now.

Cleaner.

2007-03-12T17:43:00.000-04:00

"About Me" section gone. I didn't care for the description either. A little bit more template editing and we'll be there.

Getting better.

2007-03-12T14:54:00.000-04:00

It's getting better, but I'm still not loving it. The CSS is a little dense (read: more complex than I'm used to) and I'd like to shrink down or remove the "About Me" section as it's ugly and unnecessary to me. I'll delve into that at another time.

Yuck. Default is ugly.

2007-03-12T13:48:00.000-04:00

This thing is huge. You will not need glasses. Not yet anyway. I've got some CSS editing to do.

Learning to blog.

2007-03-12T13:26:00.000-04:00

This is the first attempt at incorporating a blog into a web page that is hosted elsewhere. We'll see how this works so that I can add this to my bag of programming tricks. No comments for this one.