Super Ginormous

Day: March 30, 2006

  • Mobile Post

    I figured I’d give mobile posting a try while I mess with WordPress. I’ve already noticed a few issues I’ll need to address, but they’re relatively minor.

    • The frontend needs a handheld styleshhet. It didn’t render quite the way I would have hoped in PIE.
    • The admin login doesn’t bring you into the Admin section after logging in. This hould be relatively easy to fix.
    • I also need to tweak the design further. I love the Hemingway theme, but I need to make it more my own…

    I am still on track to launch this site on 5/1, along with the Spring 2006 CSS Reboot. But I am looking to push it live a little earlier without the final look in place, just so I can reestablish a presence, albeit a very small one, online. Make sure you sign up to receive updates via the signup form at cdharrison.com.

  • A Guide to CSS Support in Email

    Dave Grenier just posted a great article on CSS Support within email clients and, more specifically, web email clients. What a fantastic resource… Considering that I am designing more and more emails for a few of our clients, this couldn’t come at a better time.

  • An Event Apart: Atlanta

    I’ll be making the two-hour trek to attend An Event Apart: Atlanta this Sunday. Originally I was going to drive up on Monday morning, seeing as Augusta is only 2 hours east of Atlanta. I decided it would be a good idea to head up a little early so I wouldn’t have to contend with rush-hour traffic on Monday morning, and so I would be well rested.

    I can’t really convey how excited I am about attending this event. I’ll be able to meet the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman, Eric Meyer, Todd Dominey and Jason Santa Maria… and learn from their experiences. You just can’t put a price on that sort of thing.

    Zeldman’s book Designing With Web Standards changed my way of working on the web. More specifically, it made me excited about web design again. When I read it, I was ready to give up design. I was ready to give up code. I was ready to move onto something else altogether. Thank God I read that book. It opened my eyes, and relit the spark within me to pursue design further.

    Eric Meyer’s books on CSS are amazing, informative and insightful.

    I am fascinated with the design skillz of Todd Dominey and Jason Santa Maria.

    Couple that with the fact that I’ll be there with other geeks just as much into this stuff as I am… it’s going to be an awesome time.

    If I have time, I plan on liveblogging the event… I’ll be snapping pics while there too… So stay posted, friends… Atlanta, here I come.

  • Go Scott Go!

    Scott V. reminded me that one of our programmers, Scott Parel, qualified for the BellSouth Classic. Kick some butt, Scott! We’re praying for ya.

    Scott ParelScott is a professional golfer on the Nationwide Tour, basically one step down from the PGA Tour. Well on Monday he played for one open spot in the BellSouth Classic and won it, by shooting a 67 and then winning a 3 man playoff; that is big stuff. Scott works with me at PowerServe when he is not on tour, so all of us guys in the office live out a professional sports fantasies through him. He has done this twice before, and each time it was the US Open, which is basically impossible but he did it anyway.

    If you want to check in on how he is doing you can look at the BellSouth Classic leaderboard. If he finishes around the top 3 he might get an invite to the Masters, next week. How sweet would that be.