I finally got around to designing up a new background. I think I like it better than the last one (before the overwrite of the theme) and a fewmodest style changes to compensate for the latest background change. I may do another one for fall, I don’t know, but I am kind of sticking partial to this one. I took a week and it came out the way I wanted it to, but comments and criticism is most definitely welcome.

I know that the background may not display properly in an iPhone. I’m going back and re-reading a couple articles that were graciously suggested to be by a friend. I’ll hopefully have that issue under control. The background is fairly big, I needed to maintain the look, so it wasn’t pixelated, load times may vary. Google Gears helps out a lot, but I’m looking into optimizing it a bit more.

If you’re on anything bigger than a 1280×900 monitor, you’ll see the background-color. I don’t, didn’t and don’t plan to design for anything larger than 1280×1024.

Another anti-spam plugin has been installed and it works. I use it on my blog and I don’t get anything I don’t want as far as comment spam goes. What I do not see, won’t kill me.

Ethan has an awesome video over at URN, and it cracked me right up. Certainly made my day when I saw it. I suggest it if you want, or need a good chuckle.

YouTube is having a major malfunction of some sort. Yesterday, after putting a serach query in, it redirected to a Dell banner ad. No wonder I hate Dell. Now today, it just does not want to load the site at all. I am wondering if it is me or if it is the fact that perhaps YouTube became too big for the interweb’s britches? Or my connection sucks. I am thinking the latter.

I’m doubting the decision to use both Spaz and/or Twhirl as Twitter/Friendfeed desktop clients, they’re both good, but I want something a bit slicker, so I am going to give Snitter a try. being a avid reader of Jonathan Snook for what seems an eternity (a few years now), I don’t question the product because of the name behind it. As I type this entry out, I fired it right up and it works smooth… A donation will be made soon.

and… after going through the interface, I have chosen my bread and butter desktop Twitter client… muah!

As for this site… it is a matter of getting work up as soon as I complete the projects I am doing to add to the Work page. Much more to follow, stay tuned.

Tags: background, Ethan Marcotte, iPhone, Jeffrey Zeldman, Jonathan Snook, Snitter, updates, YouTube

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