Freelancing. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time now. I’ve decided to take the plunge a couple weeks ago. A few opportunities came up and I couldn’t pass up the chance to work from home on a regular basis. I can’t say the decision was easy. Risking a steady paycheck is not something I took lightly, but at the end of the day I felt like it was a risk I had to take.
I’m currently enjoying some time to myself and will being keeping this blog updated on a regular basis. More info to come. I promise.
So I’m working on getting this site up and running soon. Learning how to design for WordPress has been so much fun. The videos over at CSS-Tricks have been awesome! I hope and I can get decent enough at it so I can start doing it for other people via Creative Drift.
I’ve added a few social icons so that people can find me on other sites and I’m really happy with them. I also just added a twitter feed to the blog and I thought that was pretty painless. I’ve got a lot of work to do before the site goes live, but I’m looking forward to it! I just wish I had more time to dedicate to finishing this blog.
I’m planning on launching the site before the end of month, but it’s starting to look like I won’t be done until early April. I plan on Video Blogging (Vlogging?) with this site and am really excited to see where that goes.
More info to come!
Tags: Almost done, Learning WordPress, Twitter, Update, vlog
Hi everyone! This site is currently under construction, but it should be up and running real soon. More info on this blog to come so stay tuned!
This blog is for people that may or may not know who I am. Mostly for those that do. I’ll be posting about things that happen in my life. I’ll be blogging about everything and anything that may catch my attention today. Anything from today’s news, gadgets I like, video games, and even movies!
I’m not really sure where this blog will go or how I will handle it. However, I hope to keep this site updated regularly. Feel free to comment and leave some feedback on this site.
Hope you enjoy!
IE = Lame
When it comes to web design, I’m new. I’ve been doing it for about a year now. All year long I’ve been learning about web standards and today’s common practices. From the very beginning of this endeavor I’ve noticed that working with Internet Explorer (IE) has always been a hassle to me. At first I thought it was me. I thought that I didn’t know my way around development and that I was messing up. I found ways to work around IE to make it look good across most popular browsers. However, the fact that I have to take extra steps really pisses me off. Not that I don’t mind working extra hard. I just hate having to work extra hard for something that’s obsolete.
I’ve been learning how to build compatible sites for IE 6. IE 6! A browser that was released in 2001! IE 7 came out in 2006. It took M$ over 5 years to come out with a new browser. Meanwhile browsers like Firefox and Apple’s Safari have been coming out updates every other Tuesday (exaggeration). Technology evolves and develops on a daily basis. While people are still using a browser (IE 6) that doesn’t support transparent PNG’s, Firefox and Safari have been evolving along with the technology.
There is some hope for IE. With the recent announcement that IE 8 passed the Acid2 test, I’m left wondering if M$ has finally building a browser that works. As a designer I hope for no more work-arounds. I just want to write in my semantically correct code and have my site working the way I want it to.
I guess this is just a rant. I hate having to support something that not even M$ is supporting. IE 6 and 7 are dead browsers. If you are reading this blog from one of those browsers, please go here. Do yourself a favor and upgrade. You won’t be disappointed. It’ll take some time for you wash off the curse IE leaves you with, but once you’re done, you’ll never go back.
Tags: Browser, IE, Internet Explorer, Worlds worst browser
