Category Archives: webcoding

More Zoo Pictures

I should probably start a category just for closeup pictures of animals making funny faces, because there are few things as amusing to me as animals staring into cameras. I don't know why. Is that weird? There is not much to this post besides just more pictures from the zoo (hence the title - I am nothing if not creative). I have been too busy lately with work and study to have much of any...

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The Roundup

So as promised, here I am with a Roundup post to try and collect all the little tidbits of randomness that happened over the last three weeks I wasn't posting. Thus, without further ado... Banana Republic Whore There's like $50 USD worth of gift reward cards here... I've said it before, but I am a total Banana Republic Whore. In the course of about 2 years, I went from never ever setting foot in a...

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Movable Type Livesearch

I Ever since the last major redesign, I've really wanted to add a "livesearch" function to the site. Up until now, all site searching was handled through Google via the "site search" box over on the right. It works okay, but the Google search page is not only pretty ugly, it also serves up ads and some not-so relevant results (for example, giving category pages instead of specific entries). What I wanted to do was something akin to what Dunstan did on his amazing 1976design blog - a live search that returns dynamic results that change according to what you type into the box. If you've ever used the iTunes search function, then you'll know right away what I'm talking about.

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Busy webcoding panda...

Sorry I haven't been posting lately. I've been plowed under preparing for a presentation I have to give next month in Tokyo to several hundred fellow teachers from all over the country (can you say "nervous"!?). I've also been busy as hell rewriting the local JET website from scratch. Now that it's almost done, I have to say, I'm rather proud of it. Fully W3C web standards compliant and cross-browser compatible, which is probably a...

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Coming along

An old house I pass on my way to work everyday... Apparently the last color scheme I picked was too dark to show up on some people's monitors. (*in a huffy voice* "which obviously means you need to calibrate your monitors...!") So I'm working on it now. I'm not sure how I feel about this current scheme (the original idea was "sleek and autumnal", this new one looks too "shiney and I-just-learned-the-gradient-tool"-ish). So we'll see....

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Site update

I am so exhausted right now. I hate Thursdays - no matter what I do, by the time 9pm comes around, I'm dragging myself through the motions. I feel really bad for my night course adult students - I am being a shitty teacher, and I know it. It's painfully obvious to all of us in the room that I really don't want to be there, that I'm dead tired, that I desperately need more...

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