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We’ll Be Right Back After This Brief Development

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Space for a Name is a at a place now where I feel comfortable taking a few days off to work on my other project, GalleryView.  GalleryView was my first foray into jQuery plugin development, but it’s become a bit stagnant since I started work on this website.  However, it’s been a few weeks now and I have a number of new features and bug fixes to implement (thanks for the emails!).  Some things I plan on knocking out:
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WordPress: Customize That Homepage

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Want to grab your reader’s attention and draw them to your newest posting? By making a few small changes to ‘The Loop’, you can grab any post you like and customize it to your heart’s content.

Blueprint: Basics of CSS Typography

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It turns out CSS typography isn’t as cut & dry as I thought it’d be. In lieu of keeping default HTML font styling until I fully flesh out my typography stylesheet, I’ve gone ahead and implemented Blueprint’s typography stylesheet, with a few alterations.

Intermission: Nike Ripping from Threadless?

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Design rips are unfortunately commonplace in the web design industry, but I can’t say I ever expected to see a company of Nike’s size ripping apparel designs. And from Threadless, no less.

WordPress: Well That Wasn’t So Hard

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With the robustness of today’s blogging solutions, it doesn’t make much sense to forego one if you plan on publishing content to your website on any kind of schedule. Read how I managed to install WordPress but still maintain that classy “complete and utter lack of design” look & feel.

Email Obfuscation, Learned the Hard Way

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I just made one of the most basic mistakes in web development…posting my email address in plain text. Read about how I solved the problem of email harvesters and save yourself before it’s too late.

Site Layout: Columns and Menus and Grids, Oh My!

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Three columns or two? Left sidebar or right? Vertical navigation or horizontal? Probably one of the more important decisions you’ll make while designing a website is just where all your content is going to live. Read about some CSS framework solutions, which one I settled on and why.

CSS Reset or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Browser

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It’s time to stop letting the browser have its way with our markup. Create a CSS Reset and put those browsers in their place.

Wait, Don’t Go!

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Really, what you see is entirely intentional. Read on to see what I have in store for spaceforaname.com and why you should never judge a website by its homepage.