Over the past few years I’ve seen/heard people throw the word “hacking” around everywhere, even in situations where it’s not even appropriate. A lot of people do it to feel better about their technological skill- “Oh my account got hacked” vs. “I put a weak password and somebody guessed it.”
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I”m pretty sure all of you guys have heard people referring to their Tumblogs as “blogs.” Everybody and their preteen brother has one nowadays. For those of you who don’t know what a Tumblog is, it’s a social networking tool of sorts, where the user posts links, images, IM conversations, music, quotes, etc. Most of this is done in less than a minute, and without any commentary. Blog is a short name for a Web Log, which is like a journal or diary, but on the web— usually publicly accessible. A blog usually has well-thought out entries and articles, whereas a Tumblog is just a dump of all the stuff you find interesting. I’m not against Tumblr or any of those sites, I actually use a similar system here, but not as often. I’m just sick and tired of people referring to their Tumblogs as legitimate blogs, even when the former takes little or no time to maintain as opposed to a real blog. Next time some teen says “Well I posted this song/quote/picture in my blog..,” make sure to correct them.
It’s officially 2010, and the New Year also marks a new design for DZine-Studios. This the 9th iteration, and it’s quite different from most of my previous layouts. The useless (but still cool) sliding effects are mostly gone, replaced by more useful things such as a live-search and a live archives browser. Try them out and see for yourself.
I incorporated a boatload of CSS3 into this design, as promised. The green is gone as well. I feel this design marks a step in a different direction. The previous three or four themes were just evolutions of each other, but this one was a total rewrite from the ground up. It’s still not perfect, and if you guys find any bugs, let me know in the comments.
Anyways, Happy New Year everybody! Enjoy the design— I’m off to slave over my portfolio…
it’s a bit late to be saying Merry Christmas (there’s an hour and a half left of it), but better late than never. So yeah, Merry Christmas to you all, whether you celebrate it or not.
I got a pretty good haul this year: a Lowepro camera/laptop backpack, a set of Microns and Rapidographs, and a new flatiron (don’t ask).
24 ways: Make Your Mockup in Markup
They wrote about this now? I’ve been doing this for years. In fact, I’ve never had the patience (or the masochism) to use Photoshop for a full mockup. All my designs go straight from my Moleskine to Coda.
Yep, it’s been exactly two years since I’ve made that noobish test post in 2007. The design’s come a long way in my opinion, from icky overdone gradients and tables to clean code and a slightly less icky design. Oh, and Christmas is only a day away. That’s when I’ll be launching DZine-Studios 9.0, which is a completely reworked design. I’m coding it in HTML 5, with loads of good CSS3. The fact that IE doesn’t like either of the two won’t stop me- it certainly didn’t stop designers from using CSS2.1 back when it was still super-new. Let’s take a look at what the next year will bring to this oft-neglected blog of mine:
- More ranting. Nothing is safe from my keyboard.
- More geekery and Apple worship.
- More pointless “I’m sorry for not posting for _____ months” posts.
Remember how I said I was going to try to keep a posting schedule? Well that only lasted for a week or so, which is why I’m changing the schedule to a “I’ll post when I feel like it” schedule. This place will remain ad-free, as I don’t like having annoying banner ads cluttering up my design. That is, unless a fine network like Fusion Ads or The Deck offers me membership cough.
So here’s to another year of pointless drivel!