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The Web Design Trend Obituary & Death Clock From PingMag. They predict gradient fills to be out of fashion next year. By way of Wired's MonkeyBites, where it's pointed out that round corners didn't make the list. Nah, they can't be here to stay. Nothing is here to stay. OK, I did it I got the Rocketboom package this morning and let it seed much of the day because Dave said so. It really is a good demonstration project for BitTorrent since it's legal. If anybody can start a movement it's Dave. I'll do my part if I ever start podcasting again. No, I shouldn't say it that way. I'm sure I will, just not sure what it will be. Different kinds of quiz shows, probably. Testing using an external message board for blog comments Nothing tricky. The Phorum board isn't connected to the blog in any way. You have to start a new thread if there isn't a post already there on the topic you want to comment on. You can see links to recent comments in the sidebar. Setting one up for Hil Let me know if you'd like a board, just to play around with, see if you like it. It's not hard and not much trouble. I want to make a few so I can see what a reading list of the forum feeds might look like. Here's the link to Hil's. If she wants to use it (haven't asked her!), I'll give her or anybody else a snippet of Feed2JS code to put in the sidebar to display recent comment links. You could use something like Grazr, too. Here is the front door. Now I have to see about handing off moderation of a single forum. I hope that's possible; have to believe it is. Later: Works. OK. Time to "go" to work. No, one more thing Subscription list. I can't remember what all is supposed to go in a sub list. Will this work? NewsRiver doesn't like it, but will take the individual feeds. Oh well, out of time for now. Ohhhhh. I know. No I don't. See how it looks to output the comments feed in Grazr One problem I have with Grazr is it seems to make a page load slow. I'd also like to see Michael work with a designer. The app is so sweet in so many many ways and it's almost there graphics-wise, but there are little things like how the text crowds the left and bottom of the bottom panel that I notice every time. The grass could be handled in a really slick 2.0 way but should be done by a pro. Maybe that's in the plan. It's still technically alpha after all. I do love it on balance. I don't mean to be harsh. I want it to be successful. Hope the designer isn't somebody's dad or wife or something. It updates quicker than the 2003 vintage Feed2JS: Hil just posted something and I saw it in Grazr Grazr doesn't show up in IE7, though I still have the first public beta version (of IE). I understand some things have been fixed. Think I will. Use Grazr in the sidebar. I do like how you can read the post, and how it occupies such a small space. Just one more complaint about Grazr I really don't like that it breaks the browser's back button. This might be enough to get me to take it out of my sidebar because when this happens to me on other sites I resent it so much. In this case it's not done for any slimy commercial, keep-you-here reason, but I get the same trapped feeling. If it's only happening because links from Grazr open in a new window, I'd be happy to lose that feature. Or is it because of caching. Dunno. Damn! I just read through all my posts from today and I sound like such a wishy-washy flip-flopper. No wonder Republicans can't stand me. I guess that's what happens when you narrate your work, right? You expose all your meandering ways, if you have them. |
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