I just spoke to pixiedawn for the first time since the Stern thing, and she's like hot shit now. They wanna do some more photo shoots of her and bring her back and do a whole segment on her on E! She's even on the front page of her site, whodathunk people would go for a gangly girl 
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I am a corporate whore.
I recently redesigned a site I did about a year ago. The client was very specific in what he wanted, which is partly why it looks like ass. In fact, the number one reason some of my sites look like ass is because the clients want it that way.
I've never had a huge problem with that other than that's one less site I can add to my portfolio, but hey if the money is there no biggie. But I was asked to do something that's just abominable among fellow web designers. On the left sidemenu it was requested that the text blink...in bright flashy red.
I've never used the blink tag, mostly because it's atrocious and the bane of web users everywhere. Nobody likes the blink tag, or its equally annoying counterpart the marquee tag. Both should die a miserable death. Except now I was forced to use it. The tag itself was only supported by Netscape (and later Mozilla), and its cousin the CSS text-decoration for blinking was also only supported in Gecko browsers like Mozilla. Leave it up to MS to not support standards, even shitty ones. I imagine somewhere Bill is wiping his ass with the W3C standard and laughing.
That's always been a fundamental problem of web design that drives me up the wall. You can either design a site correctly, and have it render in standards compliant browser engines like Gecko and KHTML. Or you can design it the half-assed wrong way and have it work for 90% of the lemmings that use IE5/6. This is why I love Olivia, only she can feel my pain.
Anyhow, I wrote a JavaScript that would do makeshift blinking, and being my subversive self I made it only work with IE, so only you losers that have not yet discovered how shitty IE is will be able to see it. Have I mentioned Mozilla Firefox?
So yeah, I've sullied myself to that level of annoyance, but at least I haven't done any popups or misleading ad banners yet. Hopefully I'll never have to get into web marketing, ugh.
Right now I'm learning the finer points of CPAN and installing Perl modules. I need to do this for some shopping carts I'm setting up with Authorize.net, and since nobody wants to do it as a part of their service, I am blowing through all the finger pointing and just learning it myself.
Sorry all, another geeky post and no naked chicks to follow them this time. So sue me
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I am a corporate whore.
I recently redesigned a site I did about a year ago. The client was very specific in what he wanted, which is partly why it looks like ass. In fact, the number one reason some of my sites look like ass is because the clients want it that way.
I've never had a huge problem with that other than that's one less site I can add to my portfolio, but hey if the money is there no biggie. But I was asked to do something that's just abominable among fellow web designers. On the left sidemenu it was requested that the text blink...in bright flashy red.
I've never used the blink tag, mostly because it's atrocious and the bane of web users everywhere. Nobody likes the blink tag, or its equally annoying counterpart the marquee tag. Both should die a miserable death. Except now I was forced to use it. The tag itself was only supported by Netscape (and later Mozilla), and its cousin the CSS text-decoration for blinking was also only supported in Gecko browsers like Mozilla. Leave it up to MS to not support standards, even shitty ones. I imagine somewhere Bill is wiping his ass with the W3C standard and laughing.
That's always been a fundamental problem of web design that drives me up the wall. You can either design a site correctly, and have it render in standards compliant browser engines like Gecko and KHTML. Or you can design it the half-assed wrong way and have it work for 90% of the lemmings that use IE5/6. This is why I love Olivia, only she can feel my pain.
Anyhow, I wrote a JavaScript that would do makeshift blinking, and being my subversive self I made it only work with IE, so only you losers that have not yet discovered how shitty IE is will be able to see it. Have I mentioned Mozilla Firefox?
So yeah, I've sullied myself to that level of annoyance, but at least I haven't done any popups or misleading ad banners yet. Hopefully I'll never have to get into web marketing, ugh.
Right now I'm learning the finer points of CPAN and installing Perl modules. I need to do this for some shopping carts I'm setting up with Authorize.net, and since nobody wants to do it as a part of their service, I am blowing through all the finger pointing and just learning it myself.
Sorry all, another geeky post and no naked chicks to follow them this time. So sue me
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envy_us:
lol ace fu I am not to good for anyone lol just spending time with six_past_six since I got home.. I will be posting on a more reg basis from now on freakkkkkkkk love yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 
hael:
yeah i had already seen it jon did the picking up of the jaw for me