Yearly Archives: 2007

Tentacles In a Box!

I need to start this post off with a rant about the stability of Illustrator CS2 running in Rosetta on an Intel Mac.

It’s horrid. Absolutely horrid. It’s the only program which seems to consistently crash on my computer, which is saying something! It crashes almost silently sometimes, which is nice since I could be reading something, finish reading, go to do something in Illustrator, only to discover that it has crashed. On one hand “thanks for not making a scene, buddy”, on the other: “I didn’t save, you prick.”

The love-hate relationship with Illustrator can’t be avoided and despite my ambivalence I find myself returning to its warm and tender embrace; *I’m imagining some kind of image involving the curve or spiral tool making a path that wraps around my neck*.

tentacles

I’m not sure if this is portfolio-worthy, but I’m going to add it as a super-awesome blog-only wallpaper (and deviantArt, since I somehow feel the need to upload there). Behold the tentacle-filled box! It was a concept for an assignment which I have yet to complete (will be up when finished), however I came to realize it would be impractical for the assignment so went for a “flashier” style.

Lessons Learned

I was recently accepted into a few CSS Galleries, which is really awesome and insightful! Checking over the stats I’ve gained some new insights into how people are visiting the site. I suppose it would be wrong to take the following information and apply it to your site, but regardless, I’ve noticed a few things:

  1. Glorious Hits! The incoming hits are awesome! It gives one a tremendous sense of accomplishment to know that people are actually visiting your site. However, first impressions are everything, and it seems most people get to the homepage and flee the site. That’s not to say that’s the case for everyone, but by the looks of it — that’s the behaviour of the majority.
  2. Ripped, already? Seriously the site has been up for about 9 days now — in galleries for about 1 day — and it has been ripped. Le sigh. On one hand I’m sort of flattered; of all the sites on the Internet, mine was chosen to be copied? On the other hand – hey — I put the time and effort into this site — so duplicating it elsewhere is kind of cheap and not too creative, eh? I don’t mind you learning from my site, but you have to think: if you’re uploading it somewhere — with most of the site still linking back to mine (and the copyright notice still in tact) you’ve got to wonder …
    I’ve attempted to contact the site owner, so I’ll wait for his side of the story before jumping to conclusions. Still … not cool dude, not cool.

You can find the site at: prowebart.net, csstux.com, lightondark.com, screenaliciou.us, mostinspired, dailyslurp, csscontainer. Thanks for the hits :D

Make the Cold go Away

Here were are, first week of April — and it has been snowing in the glorious city of Ottawa for the past day or two. The long term forecast does provide some relief — but we’re 5 degrees below average! Arg! I swear it makes it seem like global warming is a hoax.

Why am I so annoyed? I run, as some people who read this may know — and while I’d like to think I’m dedicated to running, there are two things that halt my motivation to a crawl: rain and cold. The combination of the two is particularly destructive to my motivation. I once went for a run on a 6 degree day and it was fine — until it started raining — suddenly shorts and a t-shirt seemed like horrible attire. Needless to say, I avoid running in all rain unless it’s 20 degrees out. That’s my personal rule.

I digress, running in the cold sucks. Even with sweats or other running gear. Grar.

By the way, I’m in love with the National Capital Race Weekend website over at http://www.ncm.ca/, it’s very purdy. Huge tabs, nice colours, smooth. It beats the Boston Marathon’s website, for sure: http://www.bostonmarathon.org/.

Oh IE, How I Despise Thee

Today have gained some new knowledge about one of the many quirks with Internet Explorer. Indeed, the problem I was having involved a relatively positioned container, and an element floating inside of it. It displayed fine in the nice browsers, but it seemingly disappeared in Internet Explorer.

As it turned out, the problem was that IE6 was rendering the floated layer under the relative container layer. At least, that’s what I’m assuming it was doing — since I could click on a link in the floated element; the link was in the spot it should have been, which lead me to believe that it was under the relative container.

That one little line

position: relative;

really messed up floating elements throughout the site, and it wasn’t even supposed to be in the CSS. Indeed, I forgot to remove it, assuming it to be harmless.

Arg. Simply “arg”.

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