Tag: reconstruction 2011
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Under Construction: Progress Update
It’s coming. I have some renewed energy and incentive to finally get this site in shape. In case you haven’t been playing along, this Summer, I undertook the reconstruction of my Web site live and in public. Well, I underestimated the impact on life that a third child would have and so lost steam. But…
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Under Construction. Phase 3: Halfway there
I got tired of looking at the black, white, and system blue, so I decided to ruin everything by putting some color and initial graphical treatment into play. So, here you have about 50% of the “visual design” in play: layout, most of the type treatment (some refinement to come), colors picked, etc. More work…
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Under Construction. Phase 2: Rough layout and typography
Phase 2 of my boneheaded idea to rebuild my site live is “complete”. This phase was about layout rough-in and beginnings of typography. The horizontal lines are for reference only, they will (probably) go away. Here’s a cheat sheet I put together for the various widths, sizes, etc for my “responsive” site design. It probably…
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Under Construction. Phase 1: Destruction
What happened to all the styles on the site (ask the 5 of you who visit, ever…) I killed them. Why? In an ill advised experiment to rebuild this blog’s front-end from the ground up using HTML5, CSS3, a responsive layout, graceful degradation, and whole bunch of other jargon. Over the last several years I’ve…