2010 Redesign Launch

In the past, I've tried to redesign my site about once a year and I've been able to stay on this schedule up until 2009. The redesign process started on track and everything was going according to plan until I came across and became enfatuated with grid based designs.

Designing on a grid allowed me to layout my content in a much more structured manner. Typically, when I began a new design, I would layout certain elements where they felt right. I've always been anal about sections being equal widths and counting pixels to make sure everything was perfect. In a way I was designing on a grid without realizing it.

Too busy to breathe

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Wordpress to ExpressionEngine

Over the last few months I’ve been debating about moving my sites from Wordpress to ExpressionEngine. I’ve really enjoyed working with Wordpress the last 4 years. It’s a fantastic CMS, but I always felt a little handicapped when it came to custom designs.

Hearing over and over again that ExpressionEngine is the designers’ CMS, I decided to give it a try. After wrapping my head around the completely different language and tags, it was pretty easy to jump right in.

My Apologies to the Top Commentors

Around the beginning of last year I installed the Top Commentors plugin on this blog. At first I was extremely excited thinking it was a great way to reward commentors.

After running it for a while it has become painfully obvious that peoples are only using it to increase their search engine rankings for keyword rich text links.

@font-face breakdown

If you’ve heard about the somewhat new @font-face CSS declaration, but not sure what its about or how to implement it, Dave Shea has the post for you.

Starting with @font-face over at mezzoblue goes into detail and explains the @font-face method as well as other font embedding options and gives some good links if you need to investigate further.

Check out his post to learn all about using @font-face.