While working on TechBase, I spent a lot of time crafting a nice sleek nav for the site, all in CSS3. However after finishing it, I realized it looked sorely out of place with the more simplistic design I had started implementing, so I canned it. But I put so much work into it, it would be a shame to just throw it away, so I decided to give it to you guys.
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Ah finally, some more progress on TechBase. I already started posting on TechBase, to be able to have a decent amount of content for when it “officially” launches, and to practice using it and posting. Seeing as how tech news moves at an insanely fast pace, I have to be able to post about the latest at any given time, and I can do that with my iPhone. Now, WordPress has a native app (it’s shit, but still), whereas Chyrp doesn’t.
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I’ve finally finished DZine-Studios 9.1. As you may have noticed, it’s not that huge of a change. This release is more of an aesthetic tweak rather than a full-on redesign/restructuring. Read on to see some boring release notes on what’s changed.
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Some of you may know about the Tumblr blog I run for my ranting, and all of its brilliantly controversial content. Today, I received an email that my Tumblr account has been suspended for “hate speech.” Since when does having an opinion make something hateful? I emailed them back, hopefully I’ll at least be able to export my posts and find a better blogging service or make my own. Funny how they close their eyes to blogs full of pornographic content, but the minute I start making some posts about right-wing beliefs and such, they lock my account.
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As I’m putting TechBase together, I’ll be posting about the progress here. It’ll help to keep me motivated as well as to keep the content on this blog fresh. The first part of building TechBase involved choosng a suitable CMS for it. I naturally chose WordPress, as I have years of experience with it, and it’s served my needs pretty well so far. I started hacking away at a template and all, so I thought it was all going good.
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I’ve had the thetechbase.com domain for years now, and I was originally not going to renew it, but I accidentally did. Since I have it, I thought I might as well do something with it. After mulling it over for a bit, I decided I was going to make a technology news site. “But aren’t there millions of tech sites out there?” you may ask, and indeed it was a very valid question that was in my head. The solution to this is not to present the content in a traditional, article-length blog way. I’ll just leave that to Engadget or TechCrunch. Rather, I’m going to provide short commentary on tech news that I find interesting. By keeping the posts short and biased, I can make them much more frequently than a traditional blog such as this one. Think of it as an editorial for technology news. I’ve got nothing to lose, so I might as well try this.
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