Nov 3 2008

Feed History Problems With Google Reader & Feedburner

Recently I began implementing a RSS feed for my webcomic AStoryADay.com.  Creating an auto-updating RSS feed was fairly straightforward , and I could have easily left it at that.  Visitors to the site could have simply clicked on the RSS link on my site and subscribed to the feed.  However I wanted to keep some [...]

Oct 18 2008

The Case For Multiple Browser Support…(Or Not)

Lately I’ve been discussing my recent dive into the world of web development– design, css/xhtml, and php coding.  One of the projects I’m starting with, a webcomic, was mainly chosen to make the process more enjoyable.  And to put things in perspective, I am just now completing the css/xhtml phase.  It was during this phase [...]

Oct 11 2008

CSS Growing Pains….Sigh….

I’ve been having CSS nightmares since I decided to venture into teaching myself web design.  I wake up in cold sweats babbling about relative and absolute positioning. Learning how to deal with transparent png files and repositioning gifs makes my head hurt.  The mention of things like elastic layouts makes me want to run the [...]

Aug 25 2008

My Experiences In Web Design: Part 2

(This article is part of an ongoing series about my first experiences with redesigning some of my sites and blogs.  This is a live series meaning that the redesigns haven’t been deployed yet but are in development.  Each article in the series is a step in the development process as it is happening.)
Alright, this article [...]

Aug 20 2008

Late Night Post: Possible Logo

Well I was just thinking that it would be kind of neat to have a logo for HighTechSister.  So while taking a break I sketched up a few ideas.  After I came up with one I kind of liked, I tried to ink it in both GIMP and Inkscape.  Now I’m not really a digital [...]

Aug 20 2008

My Experiences In Web Design: Part 1

(This article is the first in an ongoing series about my first experiences with redesigning some of my sites and blogs.  This is a live series meaning that the redesigns haven’t been deployed yet but are in development.  Each article in the series is a step in the development process as it is happening.)
I’ve never [...]