Site Redesign

Now that baseball season is over, I can finally get back on track with this project. It’s been sitting on the shelf for longer than I’d anticipated, but I’m committed to completing what I started. I’ll need to revisit my goals, schedules, etc., but where there’s a will, there’s a way. And there’s definitely a will.

The first thing you may notice is that I’ve redesigned the site. There are a few reasons for this. Probably the most exciting to me is that web standards guru Jeffrey Zeldman has developed a Blogger template. This might not mean much to you, but I build web sites for a living and we happen to be drinking Zeldman’s Kool-Aid at work these days. In a nutshell, this presents a great opportunity for me to play around with standards-compliant code and build up my CSS chops in the process.

Benefit to you? Well, I hope the site looks nicer.

I modified Zeldman’s color scheme so that it’s loosely based on Maxfield Parrish’s Daybreak. Basically I used the ColorZilla Extension for Firefox to find colors in the painting and then made slight adjustments so they would fall within the browser-safe web palette. I’ll probably continue to tweak it here and there as needed.

Onward…

[Update October 30, 2005: I just realized the colors I chose aren't part of the browser-safe web palette. Because most browsers these days can handle most colors, and because I like the colors I ended up using, I'm sticking with what I've got.]

On this day…

• 2007: Rainbow Song — Caught this at the San Diego Asian Film Festival last night:

  Beautiful film. Nice mix of humor and melancholy, not overplayed.

• 2005: Updated Mission Statement and Schedule — Back in January, I set the following goal for myself:
  It is my hope that by the end of 2005, I’ll [...]