JQuery can be used in many ways. Since I’m a web designer, I use it like a web designer would, to modify my CSS and enhance my UX. Some of the basic stuff I tend to use JQuery for is to auto-assign classes to specific elements without having to muck up the code and worry about forgetting stuff. Check out my latest demo/tutorial on JQuery Dynamic CSS Class Demo.
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JQuery Dynamic CSS Class Demo
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The Hit List – Mac GTD App
I’m a Mac guy and love to download and try out as many apps as I can get my hands on. I’ve tried a few different GTD types of apps over the years, and I believe I’ve officially found my favorite, The Hit List. It’s not at all what I expected my favorite to be, mostly because I’ve never seen a GTD app like this.
HURTS – Stay
Kind of straying from my normal music selection, but too good to not post. I don’t know much about HURTS, but he’s got a great voice that really booms. I liked the song so I decided to post it.
Liviu Hodor feat.Tara – Dream with you
This is my latest favorite song. Liviu Hodor is another Romanian and Tara’s voice goes great with his beats. What is up with Romania? Between them and Northern Europe, they make the best music.
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ButtarsAlpha V.1 Complete For Now
OK, it’s 1:35 am and I’m ready for bed. I spent most of my night trying to get my new theme a bit more polished. There is still some minor polishing to do, but I would consider the theme complete for now. I’m pleased with how things turned out. I really like how clean it is and of course it uses some of my favorite combination of colors. I may or may not try and release it on WordPress.org. We’ll see.
New Theme Up in Alpha
I got my new theme somewhat coded and up tonight. It’s just past 2:30am and I uploaded it. I still see a bunch of styling that needs to be done and some widgets that need to be added, but I’m feeling good about the theme. Let me know if you’re interested in using it. I’m thinking about releasing a more advanced version for the public, but I don’t know how interested people would be.
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Tagged blue, ButtarsAlpha, orange
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Edward Maya – This is My Life
This is my latest in favorite songs. Edward Maya does Stereo Love also that’s a big hit right now on the radio. He always uses some interesting instruments in his music. His songs are so catchy.
End of Weekend
So the weekend is over and it’s 1:30 Monday morning. I just got done watching Inception and doing some dishes. My family went to bed around 10, but I had a huge Sunday nap so I wasn’t as tired. Inception is a pretty dang awesome movie.
This weekend we started our weekend off with my wife and I going to a Jazz game. My boss gave us some awesome tickets and we definitely took advantage. Jazz lost but it’s always fun to go to the game. It was Tyrone Corbin’s first game coaching since Jerry Sloan retired a day or so before the game. The Jazz have a lot of work to do if they want to represent the Jazz of past.
Church was good. On Saturday I spent some time trying to do better at my church calling as Membership Clerk. I kind of got a little motivated so hopefully I’ll do a better job at that. Sunday I spent most my time updating records and cleaning records up. Fun stuff.
I’m tired now so I’m just getting ready to hit the hay. Hopefully I’ll have a good post to share in the near future.
No Time For Design Tonight
I didn’t have any time to work on my template tonight, but I definitely wanted to. My wife had to go to the church tonight with the youth. She always does on Wednesdays, but I usually have a meeting about the time she gets back. There’s usually 4 of us but it was just my buddy Erik and I tonight.
We’re trying to make some extra money doing some things online and he’s been a big help and been a work horse. I’m a recovering over-thinker. He’s good at keeping it simple. We discussed PicnicWith.Us and what we’re going to start doing there. It’s our e-commerce site that is slowly coming together. We can take orders but we’re barely starting to do SEO and trying to build links.
Anyways, thought I’d try to keep a good thing going by blogging. Hopefully I’ll get some more design done tomorrow. I’ve got a screaming 3 year old begging me to put him to bed.
Sample of the New Template Design
I spent most of the night putting together my new template for the site. I was inspired by WordPress.org and how simple it is. I had to add the unnecessary shine and text-shadow that I’ve become addicted to. I looked for a bunch of icons but just have started creating my own. If you have an opinion let me know what you think so far. I’m going to try and design every element out before I start coding. I usually do half of it and then start coding.
First Night of Template Design
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