Archive for the ‘Ramblings’ Category
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Just a couple of updates ...
You might have noticed some strange things today if your watching our RSS feed. After the loss of our news from the past week, I went back through and posted as many of the articles as I could find in order to recover the news. It was a chore, but at least we'll have them for future referance. I havn't had the time to seperate them into catagories or apply tags yet though. That might take a few ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
I have to apologize. When I wrote the template for White Sands I made the classic mistake of only testing the site using Opera and Internet Explorer. There were serveral reasons for this. Mainly because I wrote all the template in less then an hour, and that included sorting out ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
While I was in the middle of working on the site we lost the server for about 30 minutes. I was worried it might have been something I had done since the Joomla and WP installs have been flacky, but everything seems to be up and running ok now.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Server down", url: "http://whitesandsdigital.com/wordpress/2008/04/13/server-down/" });
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
To be honest art, as it is presented in our art section, is really pretaining to web graphics and the tools we as designers use them. However as I post more and more news on design, I seem to find that art is taking larger role on the internet. So I'm adding ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
For those of you who have been following along, the site template died last night when I upgraded to WP 2.5 In a coffee laden stuper I tried to revive it in the wea hours of the morning only to give up and write a quick theme from scratch. This ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Well, I gave up on trying to figure out why the old template wouldn't work with WP 2.5, so I just wrote a new one from scatch. It's pretty messy and basic, but it screams when it comes to speed. In fact, all things being equal it should load about ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Following my earlier post : The main Joomla powered page is back up and running. So what did I do? Not much of anything really. I upgraded to the latest release, just in case it would fix the problem, and well, it did. So for now everythings working as it should. ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
I was just looking at the site traffic on Google, and I noticed something was really strange. In fact I actaully had record usage today. So waht's the problem you ask? well, there was a 73% bounce rate for those people that visited from the main page. You have to ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Although I'm sure most of you had a good laugh at our expense today, I still wanted to thank everyone for visting and poking around the site dispite the obvious lack of styles.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Thanks everyone for CSS naked day visits", url: "http://whitesandsdigital.com/wordpress/2008/04/10/thanks-everyone-for-css-naked-day-visits/" });
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good 'ol play on words. It's time to show off your .
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