Ohoho! Yet Another New Design!
February 06, 2008

Well, overall the reaction to my last design was less than stellar. David thought there was low alignment, James thought it was too white and Andy... he thinks everything sucks. In honor of my new position of Webmaster at W3i I've decided to take some time to rework my existing design and make it a little more interesting. You'll notice the return of my fancy diagonal bars from an old design, and a whole lot of green. I like green (and I want to remind David of his lifelong goal of reworking his blog to appear as a console application).

I'm planning on tweaking some of the colors and to revisit how to make the "content" area of the page appear a little more in sync with everything else. For now though, this is what it is. James should be happy with the darkness and David should be happy with the alignment. :)

Keep an eye out for more Caturday announcements too. Since I've been accepted at W3i as an ASP.NET developer I'm going to be stepping up my personal exploration of the technology. Alas, my MacBook is ill equipped (what with running OSX and all) for .NET development so my time on campus must be devoted to other things. Mayhaps some Parallels investment may be in order. Who knows?

My current plans are to get my new reworking of the Caturday page up and running on a Virtualized computer on my machine at home. I'm hoping that performance will be acceptable, because I'd hate to have to invest in another machine *just* to run Windows Server and IIS.

While all of that is going on at home, I'm intended to keep up with Listforge development during my time at school - just to keep my deliciously useful Ruby on Rails skills up. I'm also very excited that there doesn't appear to be too much limitation at W3i, so I might actually get to use Microsoft's new MVC Development Toolkit to get my MVC groove on.

A List Apart's Designer Survey
April 24, 2007

So, A List Apart is hosting a survey for web developers. I've always been interested in this sort of thing, so all you designers out there ought to go take this survey! Click the image to the right to get there.

Yes Draz, you should take it too.