I’ve been talking redesign of this place for ages, since before the actual design I had made went ker-puffle, and damnit. It’s getting to be about that time. Sure, it’ll take me ages (far longer than makes any kind of sense), and sure it’ll be a horrible horrible process for me (but not a “bad” horrible, just a “repetitive” and “make me want to pull out my hair in frustration when that element is 3 pixels too far to the left in Firefox, 2 pixels to the right in Safari and looks like a lemon pooping a bottle of olive oil in IE. I actually enjoy fixing that stuff. I just go crazy for a while and suddenly, when the black-out is over, everything is happy and shiny again), but it’ll be worth it in the end. Why? BECAUSE SELECTING WHICH CATEGORY TO USE IN LITTLE-MISS-MOVABLETYPE (Little Miss Movable Type, please don’t think that by my following statements I love you any less, or want to stop making mad blog-love all over you every time I want to ramble on in a public forum) SUCKS HARDER THAN A HOOVER HOOKED INTO A 220 LINE!!!! And yes, the comment selection in a CMS is worth taking a hard, and serious, look at. In fact, it’s so serious, I’m looking at moving my site off Movable Type. Which is all kinds of crazy because I’ve been using it for over four years now. I started using it pre-2.0, and I love it. Except I hate it. And now with comments all sorts of bassackward, it’s time to look long and hard at a few alternatives.

That being said. The redesign is right on schedule right now for a third quarter 2010 release. I’ll keep you posted.

-Jon

I swore sometime last year that I would have a new layout for the site sometime last year. Which… I suppose I did by blowing up my old database and loosing the countless hours that had gone into the various layouts that I had working on the old version of the site. Therefore, I have officially started work on the latest version of the site. I have no idea if this particular layout is going to be what I settle on, so… whatever. I’m posting the working version I have now. No title graphic, just a simple nasty grey (or is it gray? I can never remember), menu on the side. I need to find better colors than what I have, and the date isn’t formatted well… but I like it off to the side like it is. Anyways, not that you probably care, but what’chu think? Lemme know here if’n you will. Suggestions would be awesome, criticisms would also be awesome. Word.

Also: I was thinking about changing the name of the site to: Quo Vadimus Needs a Name Change. Thoughts?

-Jon

I’m working on a couple of projects right now when it comes to web design. I kind of want to work on learning how to do some actual, real world, professional graphic design and layout type stuff, but I’m not sure where to start with that, or how long it will take, so I’m going to leave that to another day. Rather, I’m going to try to work out a site for B before the end of the decade. I feel that I may have not been as forthcoming as I should have been when I first told her I’d work on a site for her. For those of you longtime readers… well.. you know that it can take me many many moons to finish working on a design. Once it’s done, it’s usually pretty cool though.

The first thing I was working on for B was, admittedly, the last thing I really should have been. Because I suck at Photoshop. Which may or may not have to do with the fact that I don’t have a copy of Photoshop. Soon, hopefully, I’ll be able to get one. My hope is by sometime next year. Of course, I also want a few other pieces of software… … “Which ones?” you ask? Well… I’ll tell you.

Coda

Coda: Best web dev program I think I’ve ever used. It does everything I used to do with three programs, a Dirt Devil, four cupcakes and pixie dust all in one program with an easy to use interface and some graphic goodies. It’s neat.

Parallels

Why? I’m a geek and I have a Intel based Mac. Really, why else would I want it? Mac OS X, XP, Ubuntu running at once? Yes please

That’s really it right now. Yeah, I know. Boring. I’m boring. But wait… if you’re reading this that means that you’ve probably read the post I’m going to post right after this which shows how boring can be fun!

-Jon

So, I’m back in the midwest where people are more like… “Uh… I want a cheeseburger” than they are in Texas (where it’s more like, “HOLY SHIT!!! I LOVE CHEESEBURGERS!!! LET’S SING DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS TO OUR CHEESEBURGER!!!!!”). It’s nice to be somewhere a little less… passionate (and I’m really not knocking Texas, I love that they care… its just a bit overwhelming to not be able to go anywhere in a state and not be able to see a map of the state…). And before I get into the nitty gritty of what I did on the trip, I’m going to tell you what I’m doing right now. I’m working on a redesign of the website. It’s gonna happen this year, and I don’t really care if it happens sooner or later, but it’s going to happen. I figure if I start working on in now, the last day of April, I have a fairly good chance of getting it done by my birthday… … I mean, maybe not quite 50%, but a fairly good chance none the less… heh.

If you got any ideas for what I should do with this thing, lemme know… in the comments.

-Jon

I’ve gotten category templates working now… So if you click on the various category links at the end of each post, you’ll get taken to a catalog of my rantings on the subject. There is some weirdness, and I need to figure it out. It’s very confusing to me. I did something, though I honestly don’t remember what, that made the LessSimple layout a little more centered, rather than off to the left. Only, for the category archives, it’s still to the left. Also, I’ve decided that I liked it the way that it was, and I don’t remember what it was, exactly, that I changed. This leaves me frustrated.

Yes. I really do spend my days off work sitting around thinking about crap like this. I am, really, that cool.

I want to go out. I think I might. I don’t know, I can’t decide. Either way, I think I’m going to take a shower. It sounds glorious.

-Jon

P.S. UPDATE: I’m going to get the individual archives working tomorrow if I have time while I’m doing laundry before I leave town. If I can get them working, then comments will be active again on the site and every one of you can tell me how borring I’ve been for the last few months.

The restoration of my site is almost complete. And, it will be better. Faster. I have the technology.

By technology, you should of course be reading, “time… lots and lots of time.” I’ve been playing with this thing for damn near 2 hours this morning. I’ve got the dynamic pages to work. I got the quotes to work on all the pages without using PHP or an SSI. The comments will be coming on line sometime today or tomorrow if all goes well, and category pages may be showing up as well.

This that are broken still… well, comments. Some of the CSS is still not up to snuff as far as I’m concerned, but mostly on the layout that I don’t think anyone ever looks at. The “more” link up in the quote box doesn’t lead to anything. And I started a new layout a while ago, and it’s not done. Maybe it’ll be good, maybe it’ll be not so good… But I want to finish that too.

All in all it’s been a productive morning. So… \/\/007. 1 4m 3L173. 1 w1LL pwn y0u, 5u(k45.

Yes. I realize I’m a geek.

UPDATE: I also got a feed working for the site for those of you who use Bloglines or some other aggrigator. I only have the Atom feed going, but it should be enough. That is all.

-Jon