September 2006 Archives

For work, yesterday and today, I was given a new photoshop image to chop up and make interactive for the web. Since it's been a bit slow here recently, I thought I'd challenge myself a bit and make this layout completely table free. Why make it table-free when our product currently is built wholly on tables? Well, the main reason is to make one of the co-workers here mad. He has an issue, no matter how many times we explain the benefits, with using CSS on any site. So not only was I having a little fun with challenging a fully CSS layout, but I'm making life harder for him if he feels he needs to change something later on down the line. And to make things even better, I've got the navigation showing up from right to left instead of left to right, just for fun.

With the launch of theCircumlocution.com, I've decided that I no longer want to use Movable Type as the backend for displaying my online portfolio. To make things short, it just didn't have the capabilites that I wanted such as being able to highlight a current project or a best project or even finished projects. I do suppose it would be possible to add fields to the database to do this, but then I'd have to do custom programming to show the results. I'm sure there'd be a way to write a plugin for MT as well, but I don't really think I'll be suggesting MT as a blogging/CMS solution to anyone anymore because wordpress is free and fast (PHP), not expensive and slow (perl). So why learn how to program plugins for a, in my mind, slowly dying blogging system software?