Archive for July, 2007

Buying local is good for your business too.

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

Recently I was running errands and noticed a sign for a new local restaurant along the way. Always looking for something to ward off the chain food blahs, I stopped on my way home.
It was nice inside, obviously a new family-run place, busy with what looked like a mix of people dropping in like myself [...]

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Hacking Wordpress as an easy updatable link directory

Wednesday, July 18th, 2007

By now Wordpress has been bent, folded and mangled in any number of ways to for custom CMSs. One of the most interesting ways I did it was to both manage a website and create a small Yahoo! like link directory within it.

The website was part of a grant project for helping senior citizens [...]

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Working with Bad Organizational Colors

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

My first professional website. I was so excited, I had worked so hard to position myself within my department for it. Then I realized, I had to work with our official color: orange. Not a nice warm earth tone, or a bright energizing version either. But what I'm pretty sure is the ugliest web-safe color [...]

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Introduction

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

I'm a librarian who's leaving academia to enter the world of web design.
Yes, I am insane but that doesn't have any bearing here. In truth, design is where my heart has been since my first web class in grad school. It just took me a few years to realize it.
They've been productive years though:

I [...]

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