W3C Validation Buttons

Posted on June 9, 2005 | Filed Under Web

I was recently working on one of my sites and had added the W3C buttons for valid XHTML and CSS (which actually validate, by the way). I regularly run speed reports on my sites as well and when I added these two buttons, I was not pleased with the result. Call me picky, but the extra image weight wasn’t necessary for what these buttons are. Since they are more for show and don’t really serve purpose for the user, why add the weight?

So I took the buttons and reduced the number of colors in the gif to see what we …

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Sage: a feed reader for Firefox

Posted on June 2, 2005 | Filed Under Web

Back in my (not so long ago) IE days, I was using Pluck as an RSS reader. I liked it, it was handy. Now that I switched to Firefox, I had to find something for RSS. Nice thing about Firefox, there are a lot of plugins available.

Sage seems to fit the bill. It has a sidebar for the feeds like Pluck did in IE. So far, so good. If you use Firefox (you do use Firefox, don’t you?), Sage would be a nice plugin to add. If you know of a better RSS reader for Firefox, let me know.

Sage: …

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Sometimes Ironic

Posted on June 2, 2005 | Filed Under Web, WordPress

I was about to post yesterday about BrowseHappy. I had been meaning to for sometime, then yesterday I had the urge to post about it. Then, for whatever reason, I didn’t. So what about that is ironic?

It seems that yesterday, an announcement was made by the Web Standards Project (another fabulous site, by the way) with the headline

BrowseHappy Now Part of WordPress as WaSP Refocuses Mission

Appearently, WaSP felt that BrowseHappy compromised its position by infering a lack of neutrality toward various browsers. That makes sense to me, since BrowseHappy really promotes Mozilla browsers (and specifically, IMO, …

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My First WordPress Theme - LimeLite

Posted on June 1, 2005 | Filed Under WordPress

OK. Here is my first WordPress Theme for WP 1.5. This was tested on 1.5.0 and 1.5.1. The theme is called LimeLite and this is the first beta release.

It is HEAVILY based on Kubrick. In fact, it is Kubrick with a modified header and modified font colors. So the beta is basically a Kubrick mod.

To install, download the theme, extract, and load to /wp-content/themes/. This should give you a /limelite/ folder in /themes/. There is no additional support available for this release.

Download LimeLite 0.1b here.

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Clipart & Fonts

Posted on May 31, 2005 | Filed Under Web

Well, you can never have enough font or clipart, can you? At least that’s how I feel. Especially when it comes to retro clips and fonts. Here are some of the sites I use:

Clipart:

Retrographix
Havana Street
Retro Art
Retro Ad Art
Retro Art
Cobb Shinn
Clipmart
Fifties Boulevard

Fonts:

Font Diner
Famous Fonts
P22
Dinc Fonts
Typewriter Fonts

Both:

Tack-O-Rama

Visual Inspiration:

Vintage Vending
Rainbow Sauce