Posted on January 8th, 2010
Categories: develop
I received a book from my friend Andy, it was the newest book by Eckhart Tolle called Guardians of Being. It also has art in it from the creator of Mutts the comic short.
The book is full of messages of Zen, and is a great book for me to have at work. I feel that it will be a great reminder of the goals I am looking to achieve.
I was also thinking I would include excerpt from the book for those who wish to follow along with me.
Posted on September 27th, 2009
Categories: random
San Diego’s Velodrome in Morley Field, Balboa Park is holding their semi-annual bicycle swap meet this November 8th with the gates open from 9am until 2pm. Admission is only $3.00 for people looking to buy. For sellers, admission starts at $15.
I have been to this a couple of times (the other one is in the spring usually in April) and there is always a lot of good used an new bicycle hardware and some really good deals.
Posted on September 18th, 2009
Categories: develop
PNGs are one of the most useful image types in the web design world, mostly because of their transparent ability. Most designers use them to create a drop shadow on an item and allow the background color surrounding the PNG to show through the shadow regardless of the background’s color. I began to reverse engineer a button thinking of what the shadows and reflections would look like without color. I set a color to the canvas layer and then began drawing gradients that were transparent over the top of it to creat the shadows and reflections I desired. Once I had a design that I liked, I put it into the HTML. That brought on this tutorial.
Posted on September 15th, 2009
Categories: develop, wordpress
I finally finished my new minimalist site style and uploaded it last night. The faux beige background was inspired by Scooter Software’s site along with some of the color. The logo and social network badges were inspired from A List Apart’s site.
I had been wanting to make a minimal styled theme for sometime and my last attempt at it was a black background with grey text and an abstract colored shape in the background. It really never seemed to convey what I wanted. My goal was to have a simple, yet elegant, design that was easy to read. I didn’t want it to stand out and say “Hey look at me!!” I wanted the content to speak for the site as I think most sites should. Read the rest of this entry »
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