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responsive pattern

Posted 27 Jun 2012 by Laura Scott
HTML drawing by Laura Scott

It was 2001 when I first started blogging. It would be a few years before I heard the word "blog", so maybe my early endeavor in online journaling wouldn't count for purists, but I was journaling online. This was a rather introspective period in my life and I felt compelled to my thoughts and experiences in this worldwide web I'd been playing with for several years. So I hand-coded a site, a static HTML affair that I had to update completely every time I posted an update. (I didn't really care for the limitations of the various services out there.) Over the next year and a half, the site grew in size, making my deployments more complicated. The blog also became collectively more and more emotionally raw, until one day, in a fit of mortified embarrassment and disgust, I deleted the whole thing and didn't look back. So yes, I started blogging eleven years ago, but I haven't been blogging for eleven years.

Updated rare pattern

Posted 18 Oct 2007 by Laura Scott

I updated the site from Drupal 4.7.something to Drupal 5.3, and seem to have discovered some conflicts. But I can't deal with it right now because the D/BUG meet-up is coming up and I really should try to eat something before-hand.

Later tonight, hopefully, I'll find time to clean out some modules and drop some database tables just to tidy up. And I might as well rebuild the theme from scratch as the mark-up wasn't really worth saving.

So for now I'm running Jeff Robbins' Zen theme. Clean, legible, it'll do. I'll try to spruce up the place soon with a suitably rare pattern.

Cow blogging

Posted 23 Mar 2007 by Laura Scott

One of my favorite "old media" tech sites, Creative Cow, has launched a community blog site. With anticipation, I clicked on the link in the email announcement and as soon as the page loaded I had to laugh.

Creative Cow Blog

The Cow uses Drupal!

Changing servers

Posted 4 May 2006 by Laura Scott

I'm moving this site to a new server, so I'm temporarily disabling commenting and registration while DNS propagates.

If you can post a comment or register, then you're seeing the new site.

Thanks. (Did I mention I hate this DNS time lag business?)

test

Posted 8 Apr 2006 by Laura Scott

test

Running 4.7 ... kinda sorta almost

Posted 7 Apr 2006 by Laura Scott

This is what you call the half-way update. This site is now running Drupal 4.7, but the theme itself continues with the old code. I have more updating to do, but since virtually nobody even sees this blog, well, I suppose it doesn't matter too much at this point. If you come across any bugs here, please let me know. (And yes, I know about the errant navigation link up top.)

When/if I get a break tomorrow from work work work, I'll tinker around some more and make those requisite changes to the theme. And then we can have some more fun with 4.7.

Already I'm loving it. This is a huge update for Drupal!

Sometimes a little redesign is necessary

Posted 27 Mar 2006 by Laura Scott

I just went and did it: a little css reboot. I just couldn't take the drab look of this place any more. Really, the old theme was an embarrassment. My apologies are offered in advance to those of you on dial-up for whom this page will take some 40 seconds or so to load fully. The graphics should all be there by the time you finish reading this post -- Evelyn Wood graduates excepted.

The theme is powered by phpTemplate. (I'm still running Drupal 4.6 here.) The photograph is mine, shot in Colorado. There are more where that came from on my photoblog.

One of these days....

Posted 5 Dec 2005 by Laura Scott

...yeah....one of these days....I'm going to give this place some sort of design.... One of these days....

ecto experimentation

Posted 22 Nov 2005 by Laura Scott

I've noticed that my ecto configurations have led to post content that is not validating, so I am experimenting with some settings.

For the most part, ecto plays well with Drupal using the MoveableType API. But what looks good on screen doesn't always mean it validates well. And since this site has the least traffic of all the places I post, this is where the fun will happen.

My apologies for the run-together paragraphs and hinky formatting that might result while I'm sorting this out.

That claiming thing

Posted 17 Nov 2005 by Laura Scott

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