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A friend of mine was talking with me about sizing text for the Web and how there are seemingly thousands of articles out there but few truly useful solutions. I’ve recently come across one that I feel ties together some very reasonable approaches, including the idea of establishing an initial stylesheet that overrides browser defaults for things like heading padding, margins, etc. It’s definitely worth a read!

CSS techniques I use all the time –The Montoya Herald

I’m going through some little mini-demos I did for Ajax testing and I’m coming up with some …guidelines of sorts. On the other hand, this might just be a string of mildly random thoughts on the topic. Well, whatever it is, here’s what I’m thinking: (more…)

I’ve had the idea to put a travelogue up on my site for a while now. I started to implement one a couple times but it never seemed to work out. As I was coming back from my last trip to the Adirondacks though, I got thinking “Wouldn’t it be great if there were a hiker’s travelogue website — a place where people could write notes about my trips and read about others’ trips?”

So that’s what I’m doing. I’ve registered adknotebook.com and I’m starting to collect ideas for what you’d like to see. I’ve got some ideas as for what I would like to see — trip notes, GPS data, photos, etc. — but I would love to hear what’s important to you.

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So I was migrating the FoSCL website from Dreamhost to HostMySite due to some performance and compatibility issues we’d been having. The new site and e-mail configuration were all set up and ready to go. Then, just as I was submitting the form to change the WordPress and Blog addresses (URIs), I noticed a typo I’d made in the WordPress URI. (more…)

CarlLevin.com launched today — yet another website powered entirely by WordPress, built by The Pod Project. The idea behind the design of this site was to have something clean and simple, easy to use, and accessible by all audiences. I think we met those goals but, as always, any comments and/or suggestions would be appreciated.