Archive for the Tag: Web Design
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Updated Card Tricks Site
The Card Tricks site has gone through quite a few updates in the past two days. Go check it out! (...)
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New 2 Hole Cards Design
2 Hole Cards is the 3rd site in a week I’ve given a new design. (...)
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Primary Rough Redesign
New design up over at Primary Rough. (...)
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Drop the WWW
Isn’t it time everyone drop the www? Or at least stop requiring it for your site to work. All of my sites work if you type in www.domain.com or simply domain.com. In fact, if you type in the www, I have the .htaccess files set to send a redirect. Try it out…you won’t get to any of my pages and still have the www showing in the address bar. I never type out www. (...)
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Create Favicons with Photoshop
With the help of a plugin you can now create favicons with Photoshop. (...)
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Rewriting help needed
It anyone good with mod rewrite rules? I need some help with a few. (...)
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PCT Version 2
I just activated the new layout at Poker Chip Tricks. (...)
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Google Adsense Flickering Fix
I don’t know how long I’ve been bothered by the Firefox problem with Google Adsense ad blocks. I’m sure you know what I’m referring to. While a web page is loading all you can see are Google ads flickering across the page. Or you’re on a site and when you move the mouse over a link, the Google ads flicker. It’s rather annoying. (...)
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Moved
It looks like the server move is complete. MDV, 2HC, and PCT are all hosted at DreamHost now. Please let me know if you notice anything behaving badly. I’m extremely happy with DreamHost so far. I’ll post more about my experience later. 2HC has a new design, which I whipped up this morning. Updates to PCT will be coming soon as well. (...)
Cheap Web Hosting
Get web hosting from DreamHost for less than $10 for the first year. Simply use promotion code 777 when you order. I’ve been told that the promotion is over, so I’ve setup a new code. Use promotion code MDV2 and receive discounts on any hosting package through DreamHost. This applies to their “Crazy Domain Insane” package and you must choose to sign-up for a year. (...)
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Cheat Sheets
PHP and CSS cheat sheets. (Thanks If…Else!) (...)
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CSS Playground
The CSS Playground has some pretty amazing stuff, all done with CSS. (...)
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Forward
I’m pretty happy with the way the design turned out. I call it Forward because of it’s relation to my life right now. We can usually tell what is over our heads and what is under our feet, but we don’t always know what’s right in front of us. For instance, just look at the header and footer images. (...)
All New
As you may have noticed, I’m in the process of rolling out the new MtDewVirus design. Please excuse the small piles of dust here and there as I clean a few things up. Also note that I haven’t even started to work on the Photos section of the site. Much more to come in the next 24 hours! (...)
What Happened To MtDewVirus?
As you may have noticed, the look has changed. Matt asked if I’d test out the first build of WordPress 1.5 and I couldn’t say no. I haven’t had the chance to give everything a test run, but I’ve noticed some great changes already. (...)
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Coding Zone
I love it when I get into a coding zone. Over the last few days I’ve released moderation plugins, found a new contact form, fixed some of my old plugins, installed my archiving system on someone’s site, updated Poker Chip Tricks, and setup discussion forums. Phew! (...)
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New Yahoo!
Yahoo! has released a new design on their front page. I think I like it. Seems a lot “cleaner” to me. (...)
Vote No On Proposal Link Exchange
Since launching the Poker Chip Tricks site, I’ve been getting numerous requests to exchange links. I’ve even gotten a few for this site recently. My answer is always the same, “I don’t do link exchanges.” I think link exchanges polute the web. I will never link to a site just because they link to one of mine. (...)
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aMAZE With CSS
An interactive maze written entirely with CSS. Wow! The powers of CSS are a-MAZE-ing! (...)
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Pick Your Colors
Online colorpicker allows you to choose colors and see right away how they would look in a sample layout. (...)
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Through The Portal
I’ve rearranged a few things on the site. The tabbed sidebar has been killed. More than one person has mentioned to me they didn’t like it and to be honest I haven’t been too fond of it for quite some time either. To keep the sidebar from getting too long, the recent comments, popular posts, and stats have been moved to the portal page. (...)
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CSS Playing Cards
Display playing cards with CSS. Brilliant! (...)
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Web Tools
I’m testing out a stat tracking site called Data Archiving Services. Simply put one line of javascript in your webpage and then log into their site to view the stats. The same company also has a site called Visual Speller which will highlight spelling mistakes in any web site. (...)
Creating PokerChipTricks.com
First I’d like to thank my friend Dave for his help with most of the videos you’ll find at Poker Chip Tricks. Without his help, all of the great footage would not have been possible and the site wouldn’t be up yet. Now for the topic at hand…using WordPress to manage the new poker chip tricks site. (...)
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pokerchiptricks.com
I promise I’ll be starting on the new poker chip tricks site within a week. I should be able to get started on Sunday and Monday with quite a bit. First step will be coming up with a design and porting over the current list of tricks. Any ideas for a header logo? I’m not very good with graphics, so if anyone can create something worth using, I’ll give them my Rounders DVD. (...)
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Prevent Image Hotlinking
ALA’s latest article shows how to accomplish smarter image hotlinking prevention. (...)
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Learning CSS
Ever try to learn CSS? It can be pretty overwhelming at first, so a little CSS guidance never hurts. (...)
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Is Photo Matt Gone For Good?
I sure hope not. Matt introduced me to a whole new world when I stumbled across his site back in October-November. He suggested WordPress for use with my new blog and the rest is history. I’ve learned CSS, XHTML, and PHP. I’ve tried to conform to web standards as much as I can. To say the least…Matt has had a great influence on me, which has provided many hours of enjoyment. (...)
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I Need A New Favicon
Yes, a favicon. What is it? The short answer: it’s the little image that appears next to the URL in the address bar of your browser. If there are any creative/artistic minds out there who would like to create one for me, I’d be grateful! I haven’t been able to think of anything, so now I turn to you. If you have any ideas, let me know. Inspiration! (...)
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3D CSS Box Model
A nice diagram that shows how CSS padding, border, margin, background-color, and background-image are stacked. (...)
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What I Look For In A Blog
How does a site make it into my Weblogs I Read link list? Friends This is the easiest way because I’m definitely going to read up on what my friends have to say. At the same time though, my friends can’t have a garbage site and expect me to visit often. Design You must have a good design. I don’t want to see 20 different colors of text. (...)
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New Styles
If you notice on the “Main” section of the sidebar on the right there are now different styles that can be viewed for the site. There is just something about the GanGreen one that I don’t like…I need to change one of the colors or something once I figure out what is bothering me. (...)
So Fresh And So Clean
In case you haven’t noticed, there is a new design and layout to the site as promised. A rush of creativity came over me and I whipped it all together today. For the next few days I’ll be tweaking a few things here and there. Let me know what you think of the new look and if you notice anything behaving funny. (...)
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Time For A Design Change
It’s been over 6 months since I’ve been running my blog, which also means 6 months for the design. It’s time for a change! This design is getting old on my eyes and it has a few problems that have crept in recently. Most noticeable is the problem with the Google ads. They like to flash at the top of the page when the site is loading or when using the tabbed sidebar. (...)
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Site Changes
Over the past few days you may have noticed a few changes to the site. I removed the Shout Outs from the sidebar. I was the only one ever shouting so I figured it wouldn’t be missed. With them gone, the pages should load a little (fraction of a second) quicker. The other change is that I added a little hack next to the date/time of a post. (...)
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Gallery Upgrade
I just finished upgrading the Photos section of the site to use Gallery 1.4.2. The only reason I upgraded was because they had found a pretty big security hole in the previous versions of the software. I didn’t feel like having someone hack into my web server. (...)
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New Tabbed Sidebar
Checkout the new tabbed sidebar. I think it will help to keep things organized and a lot less cluttered! I wanted a way so that the sidebar wasn’t so damn long and this seems to work exceptionally well. I’m actually loving it! Let me know what you think… (...)
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Weekend Update
As you can probably tell from my posts this weekend, I’ve been messing/hacking with my site. I believe I made at least 3 posts related to web design. It really was a “geek” weekend for me. On Saturday, I didn’t crawl out of bed until 1:30, which may be a new record. I never showered or changed my clothes the whole day actually. (...)
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Custom Error Pages
I’ve had custom error pages on my site since it started, but today I added an awesome feature. It was great that the user was getting an error page with the same look and feel as my site, but I wasn’t getting any information from it. (...)
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TFS Statistics
I just finished installing TFS Statistics on my web site. The configuration was a breeze and the instructions were top notch for the installation. From their website: TFS is a Web statistics package written in PHP. (...)
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One For All
I made a large fix in my web design today. Some of the CSS wasn’t being displayed properly by the Mozilla browsers, but I think I have that fixed now. My layout div wouldn’t extend down to the bottom of my content. I came across the site Position Is Everything, contacted Big John who runs it, and after a few exchanged emails, he gave me exactly what I needed. Thanks John! (...)
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WordPress 1.0 Platinum
On January 2nd, WordPress 1.0 Platinum was released. I had been waiting for the new version for several days after reading about some of the new features that were going to be included. It took me a little bit longer than expected to get my weblog upgraded and running properly, but I really couldn’t ask for anything more from WordPress. (...)
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Enjoying My Break
I’ve been enjoying my holiday break a great deal. At the same time, I miss being back in Saginaw at my apartment, but this is a nice little get-away. I’ve been sleeping in until at least 10 every morning and I didn’t even leave the house yesterday. The big project yesterday was to get a page up with poker chip tricks tutorial, and so far the page is getting a lot of attention. (...)
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Everything Validates!
My entire website is now valid XHTML 1.1! I just finished going through all of the code for the photoblog. It took quite awhile because there are sooo many files with the Gallery software and they are really spread out. I downloaded a program called NoteTab Pro to help me with some of the code replacement and it worked great. (...)
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Validate This
I spent the majority of the day modifying my pages to use valid XHTML 1.1 and to use tableless layouts. Everything is completed except for the photolog pages. I removed the tables from my design, but the Gallery software uses tables for a lot of the positioning, which I am not going to change. I will however be attempting to modify the code to be valid XHTML 1.1 like all of my other pages. (...)
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What Next?
When I started redesigning the site a little over a month ago, I had a plan (which changed several times) mapped out. That plan has now been completed and I have the basic pages up and running that I wanted to. So now what? For the past week or so I’ve basically only been tweaking a few things here and there. I haven’t really added any new pages. I don’t know what to do next. (...)
