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Site upgrade coming

Jessica — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:44:33 +0000

Only took a year, right? But it is. I’m consolidating a little bit. I’ve been posting on various places, and maintaining three personal sites was too difficult with such little free time. I have been taking pictures, writing, and networking.

Site Upgrade Coming

Jessica — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:26:04 +0000

I recently did a career switch and now spend most of my time writing in Java instead of HTML or ColdFusion. I’ve started my Master’s degree so even freelancing web development and design has lessened due to time constraints.

There is much to share about Java and all the other things in my life, so I’m considering changing the direction of this site. I’m thinking of changing it to be more a reflection of what’s really in my notebook. I can make different RSS files for the different categories so that those interested in design can just look at that and those just interested in programming can just look at that. Should be good. And maybe then this place will get updated more often.

While I’m planning for this upgrade, please check out an organization I just joined. If you have been looking for a way to work on leadership skills, socializing skills and saving the world skills, please check out Jaycees.

* The logo was generated by a Web 2.0 generator cause I’m feeling ~~lazy~~ efficient.

PNG – What Color Consistency?

Jessica — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 18:18:58 +0000

Speaking to you about the importance of testing is like preaching to the choir. What browsers do you test on? If you develop on a PC, do you also check on the Mac? I basically ignore IE on Mac because that has the most quirks and the fewest users according to various logs I check. Safari on Mac, however, I rarely have problems with. If it works in Firefox, it usually renders the same in Safari. Surprise. Originally I had images on my site saved as PNG because it was a smaller file size with higher quality. I didn’t do transparencies with it since IE 6 has issues with that. But it seems PNG renders a little differently, color-wise, on Safari than the other browsers. What a “Gotcha.” I had to convert the graphics to .gif and now there should be no odd color differences between page edge and page background. And this is not a new problem:

In older versions of Opera and in pre-Tiger Safari, PNG colors don’t match CSS colors when there is no color space information stored in the PNG files. Also some old Mac versions of Mozilla and Netscape 6 applied a gamma change to unlabeled PNGs. – The Sad Story of PNG Gamma “Correction”

Lesson learned: When color consistency is necessary, beware the PNG.

Host move

Jessica — Sat, 13 May 2006 17:20:42 +0000

I moved hosts. It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be. If there are weirdnesses about, please ignore them.

I also upgrade to WP2.0 (finally) and thought I’d try the Hemingway theme.

Site Cha-changes

Jessica — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:44:08 +0000

I updated a few things around the site. Since time is at a premium, there probably won’t be a complete overhaul from the default WordPress layout (which is now Kubrick since 1.5). But there is randomfoo I wanted to do.

Recently
I made the top a random banner. With that, I added 3 more headers. I shortened up the blog roll list and have the most recently changed 10 show, with a “more” that shows them all.

Next
Make the random banner have alt tags that go with that banner. Tweak the top layout a smidge. Add more banners.

I was thinking about making them all vector looking so that I can get more practice with Illustrator. Not sure though.