Technology talk from behind the scenes
Today is a new day in design for Beyond Caffeine. I am finally moving on from the old ‘Cleaker’ theme that has run this site for a good while now. I need something fresh and clean, and I found what I was looking for in a new theme called ‘Amazing Grace’ by Vladimir Prelovac. Amazing Grace is now the default theme for the blog.
I have been testing my sites with the new IE8 beta, and had a pretty major shock on my main site when it didn’t render well. I honestly hadn’t expected any problems, but then again, I didn’t expect them to REMOVE or BREAK functionality that…
Yesterday Microsoft posted a piece of news very important to all modern web developers – they are reversing their decision regarding the default behavior of IE8. For those web developers who have been too busy to check their feed readers lately – here’s the short…
There has been plenty of build-up to the release of the new MT open source. version. If you are game to try it out and want to head straight to the download and install instructions, go for it. Admittedly I think the install process (or…
Today I had to deactivate my Bad Behavior plugin for WordPress – at least temporarily. It seems there have been some people trying to post to my blog who are getting a message that they have a blocked IP address. Amusingly enough, I got the…
After months of tossing around ideas on how I wanted to redesign my main site, WebsiteStyle.com, I finally came up with what I’m calling Version 1.0 of the redesign. It was not intended to take quite so long, but ah well. Not only was it…
A brief update for the people who regularly visit the main website (www.WebsiteStyle.com): Along with getting a major visual overhaul in the coming days/weeks, one thing has been added and is working now – new domains! New: WebsiteStyle.mobi Instead of only being able to access…
I’ve been a fan of MooTools over jQuery for a while, but jQuery just came out with something that makes it a bit more competitive – a set of widgets. If you head over to http://ui.jquery.com/ you can see the new demos online. Here’s a…
Today I am deeply disappointed in the U.S. Justice Department. The agency told the Federal Communications Commission, which is reviewing high-speed Internet practices, that it is opposed to “Net neutrality,” the principle that all Internet sites should be equally accessible to any Web user. I…
FreshBooks sent out an announcement that tomorrow they will implement their new design. They are calling it version 4.0 (currently 3.0) and mention some new features that users will have. Personally, I rather like the current user panel. Very clean and simple and easy to…