Archive for March, 2008
Working still
Posted by Matt Fowler in Uncategorized on March 29, 2008
Hello Readers!
I’m still working on the site, obviously. You’d be surprised how much stuff you actually have to work on when you go from having a HTML constructed site to a WordPress site. There is a lot of getting used too. But, I can honestly say – I Love It! WordPress is so much more powerful than I used to give it credit. I have a Leopard theme on here now, mocking Mac OS X 10.5 — but… It doesn’t like widgets on my sidebar. SO, it may have to go.
Mainly because a lot of my WordPress plug-ins I have activated need this so called “widget feature”. And yes, I know you can activate them manually with a few PHP tweaks, but why do that when I can just find a theme to do it for me?
To the internet!
This is the new site
Posted by Matt Fowler in Everything on March 19, 2008
Edit: This post mentions old styles of my site.
I can’t write much on here because I’m still working on this site. Basically,Vox was a great service – But I really wanted to incorporate my blog with my site, and with using WordPress, I’ve done so. I’ve also made it to where my site is a blog, with a few added pages. Innovation died, literally. Soon I’m going to set up redirects where innovation & experience all transfer to life.
I was unable to recover all of my old posts, the one’s from Vox are on here but the original posts (Musings of a Technology Loving Teenager) are now extinct. They can still be read on my vox page (which I plan on keeping, it just won’t ever get updated)
That’s all for now! Enjoy the new site!
-Matt
Greeting cards & innovation
Posted by Matt Fowler in Everything on March 14, 2008
Ok, the title doesn't really go with each other, because this is actually a rant about Greeting Cards & my new web design dubbed innovation.
Since I haven't really wrote anything in awhile, I figured it was time for a rant. Now at least when people visit my blog and see the name (for those of you who for some reason don't know: It's called The Rant of One), they will see a rant on here and say "Hey! What a Rant!".
Anywho, on to Greeting Cards:
Basically, I'm one of those people have really random and odd thoughts, and one of them the other day was "Are online Greeting Cards becoming extinct?" Now, when I say extinct, I don't literally mean they are dieing off. I mean the trend of sending greeting cards over the internet seems to have just faded away. For me at least. I remember whenever a holiday would come around I'd hit up all the big online greeting card companies and send to all my family and friends. Now it seems like I just don't get the urge to do that anymore. And it also doesn't help that most of the big providers of FREE greeting cards now charge a membership fee. (IE BlueMountain, eGreetings, etc) Plus, the way email has evolved into a hacker/spammers/phishers playground, it's no longer fun to open up emails with external links. Let alone is it easy, because you actually have to psychoanalyze the URL and the code before you can even open up the email,
Now, some of you who are reading this (if I even have any readers anymore) are probably saying to yourself "Hey, That Guy is right!" or some might be saying "Well, I still send them all the time", and I'm sure people still use them religiously, other wise they would be gone all together. And I'm sure the big providers that I mentioned before have subscribes that pay that hefty fee and send umpteen amounts of greeting cards everyday. That's there business, I just felt like ranting about it.
Now, onto innovation:
I thought about releasing the first "design" of innovation, but I keep tweaking it every so often so I'm scared to put something up and it become a big thing, and then me take it off. I'm going to open up a simple innovation related design sometime in the near future with a comment box and see what people have to say about it.
Honestly, the design process is going very well. I'm using newer javascript features that I never did before, it's more of a portfolio than ever. Instead of just being a "Hey! What Random Script or Feature can I throw on the homepage?"
A portfolio was the original intent of my site when I first bought the domain. It just kind of shifted to a personal site like any other site out on the net. Well, after I realized that if I wanted that I should just get a free site (Like Geocities), I kept tweaking and changing the design until eXperience came out. Now I'm taking eXperience and giving it a good kick in the ass.
Ok, that is about all for this blog post. I didn't realize how much I've actually type until just now. So yeah, done.
-M
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Greeting cards & innovation
Posted by Matt Fowler in Everything on March 14, 2008
Ok, the title doesn't really go with each other, because this is actually a rant about Greeting Cards & my new web design dubbed innovation.
Since I haven't really wrote anything in awhile, I figured it was time for a rant. Now at least when people visit my blog and see the name (for those of you who for some reason don't know: It's called The Rant of One), they will see a rant on here and say "Hey! What a Rant!".
Anywho, on to Greeting Cards:
Basically, I'm one of those people have really random and odd thoughts, and one of them the other day was "Are online Greeting Cards becoming extinct?" Now, when I say extinct, I don't literally mean they are dieing off. I mean the trend of sending greeting cards over the internet seems to have just faded away. For me at least. I remember whenever a holiday would come around I'd hit up all the big online greeting card companies and send to all my family and friends. Now it seems like I just don't get the urge to do that anymore. And it also doesn't help that most of the big providers of FREE greeting cards now charge a membership fee. (IE BlueMountain, eGreetings, etc) Plus, the way email has evolved into a hacker/spammers/phishers playground, it's no longer fun to open up emails with external links. Let alone is it easy, because you actually have to psychoanalyze the URL and the code before you can even open up the email,
Now, some of you who are reading this (if I even have any readers anymore) are probably saying to yourself "Hey, That Guy is right!" or some might be saying "Well, I still send them all the time", and I'm sure people still use them religiously, other wise they would be gone all together. And I'm sure the big providers that I mentioned before have subscribes that pay that hefty fee and send umpteen amounts of greeting cards everyday. That's there business, I just felt like ranting about it.
Now, onto innovation:
I thought about releasing the first "design" of innovation, but I keep tweaking it every so often so I'm scared to put something up and it become a big thing, and then me take it off. I'm going to open up a simple innovation related design sometime in the near future with a comment box and see what people have to say about it.
Honestly, the design process is going very well. I'm using newer javascript features that I never did before, it's more of a portfolio than ever. Instead of just being a "Hey! What Random Script or Feature can I throw on the homepage?"
A portfolio was the original intent of my site when I first bought the domain. It just kind of shifted to a personal site like any other site out on the net. Well, after I realized that if I wanted that I should just get a free site (Like Geocities), I kept tweaking and changing the design until eXperience came out. Now I'm taking eXperience and giving it a good kick in the ass.
Ok, that is about all for this blog post. I didn't realize how much I've actually type until just now. So yeah, done.
-M
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