Design

June 2, 2010

Grumpy type

I really can’t help it. I was born this way. Please don’t take it personal, the furrowed brow is genetic.

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November 22, 2009

There comes a point

“There comes a point (and it comes very soon sometimes) when, unless he is very firmly convinced that there is something in his idea, it is better to abandon it and start afresh.”

Lewis F. Day | pattern designer
Pattern Design, Dover Publications, Inc., pg 205

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January 1, 2009

I have learned a lot from examining the HTML/CSS code from my blogger template and then changing it one parameter at a time. I opened and copied the source code in my browser and pasted it into Dreamweaver. This allowed me to make changes in Dreamweaver. Then I copied the code and pasted back into the Blogger HTML editor.

The process of going back and forth between the two program was slow but it helped me understand the code.

I still have a ways to go but it is getting better.

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December 31, 2008

Learning CSS

I have been asked what resources I am using to learn CSS. A Lynda.com membership is the main source and has been very helpful. The process has been really frustrating because there is so much basic CSS knowledge that you need before any of it makes sense. I watched the Dreamweaver CS4 videos several times gaining just a little bit from each pass. Then I built a (very basic) functioning website using an external CSS style sheet. It was a frustrating challenge, but with CSS it is so cool. When I make a change to the CSS style sheet all of the pages in the site are updated. For example, you can update type color site wide. It is like paragraph and character styles in InDesign.

But typography is not the place to start learning CSS. Start with the concept of “div tags”. If you are new to CSS, I know that this means nothing to you but it is the foundation for CSS in Dreamweaver. It is the first major concept that I had to know. (I have used tables in the past to design web pages and, “div tags” are not like tables.)

Once again, start with “div tags” not typography.

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December 30, 2008

I am just trying

As you may notice my blog is in various forms of disarray. I am trying to learn how to customize it with css. Please be patient with me. Who knows, it might just be interesting to watch me fumble around.

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June 12, 2008

Good News from Vermont

I received word from Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont, that one of my bow tie patterns, Costa Mesa, is in the top 10 selling bow ties as well as neck ties. While you are there check out my other patterns, Pamona and Inglewood.