April 2008

bloghardy [blog-hahr-dee]
- adjective. a weblog capable of enduring fatigue, hardship, exposure, etc.; sturdy; daring; courageous.

A blog is nothing but the writers, designers and contributors it houses, so it is in your best interest to make sure you, as a member of the household, become as bloghardy as you can be.
Enduring…
Fatigue. Creating content is […]

Are you kept up at night by the lack of your mug being plastered across the blogosphere? Rest easy, my friends, the bug-eyed raccoon has arrived.

TechCrunch recently announced that they will be using the new Seesmic WordPress plugin to incorporate video comments across their network.
This isn’t the first company to offer such a service — […]

Naomi wants to play a game. I’m in. Here’s how it starts:
“So what do you actually do for a living?”
Well, in any other medium, I’d pull out my pompous sweater and begin ranting about how I’m a new breed of man and “what I do” encompasses something so large, not even I can put words […]

Part nine of: “Stylizing Your Content”.
Sometimes we need to highlight a specific chunk of text. This should get you started:
Open up your Stylesheet — style.css — and add the following:
/* note: Grey */
p.note {
padding: 0.57143em 0.78571em;
background: #f5f5f5;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
}
/* alert: Yellow */
p.alert {
padding: 0.57143em 0.78571em;
background: #ffffa0;
border: 1px solid #e5e597;
}
/* info: Red */
p.info {
padding: 0.57143em […]

You need to redesign your blogs header and you know that Helvetica strikes your fancy but you also know it’s overused and plus, your blog is about the psychological effects of Duke Nukem on the minds of pre-adolescents and you’d like to have the header text radiate some Nukem-ish flare, right? Well, good news, you […]

For those of you that have been around since the birth of Scribbles & Words, I realize the constant shedding of clothes seems like watching a child find it’s way in the world. For some of you, this is exciting — change gets you all riled up. For others, it’s like dating teenagers when you’re […]

Now is the time all those New Years resolution blogs begin to dwindle.
As each month passes, I like to look back and mold lessons out of my experiences. No special format or expectations, just simple observation. You can read February’s wrap-up first, if you’d like.
So, here it goes…
Write It Down
It’s been said thousands of times […]

Today is “Good People Day.”
I want to say thank you to all the good people out there who have made dreams come true. Not particularly mine, but everyones. We often get caught up with routine, tangled in gossip and pulled along for rides we never meant to take. But, every now and then, we remember […]

I’m off to mars with Project Virgle.

Enjoy the rest of your petty existence on Earth.