Key Web (re)Design Objectives

I’ve been working in the web development/coding sector for about seven years or so and I’ve noticed a few recurrent issues that  crop up when creating or redesigning a website: Ease of Use.  Including navigation and readability.  ADA tags/formatting and other helpful tags.  Including the ability to adjust the font size as well. Adherence to information mapping guidelines and “the crow memory” rule I learned way back in high school psychology (basically that people tend to get flustered/confused if more than 7-10 items are presented to them at one time).  Consistency of Presentation. … Continue reading

New Month, New Year, New Decade

Well, I survived the New Year and I hope you did too!  2009 was the second full calendar year for the blog, and it has been doing far better than I thought it would since it’s just the meandering thoughts of some middle-aged gamer. It’s definitely been interesting and I don’t see myself stopping anytime soon, short of some kind of emergency or epiphany of some kind.  So let get right into December’s wrap up of the stats.  A very cool thing happened in December, I got a new “Busiest Day” … Continue reading

10K Views this year!

As of sometime late last night the blog crossed a milestone. I had over 10K views in a year!  This is the second full year of the blog, and last year I barely scrimped up ~3.5K views, so I’m pretty happy about getting over 10K this year. Not much else going on this week – I’m hoping to actually re-do some of my Enochian Tablet graphics to look nicer and to create sets with the letters on the boards (both English and Enochian).  I’m even thinking I might be able to … Continue reading

Between holidays

I made it back home from my Christmas excursion up to Utah.  It was very cold up there, and arriving the day after a large snowstorm – it was quite the winter wonderland as well.  So it was a great setting for Christmas revelry. Some of the best stuff I got in my Christmas haul were some new coats from my Mom, a very cool Egyptian themed “oracle deck”  plus all kinds of reagents and “smell goods” (a whole basket full!) from one sister, and some comfy new slippers (with … Continue reading

Busy as all get out!

Mostly I’ve been shopping and just generally trying to get ready for the holidays and all the other stuff that goes along with that, like preparing for a 450mi. drive up to my Mom’s house, making sure my laptop is all up-to-date with all of the latest MS patches and gaming patches, etc.  And I’m seriously considering updating the laptop’s dual hard drives from two 80gig drives to two 500gig drives, the 1G RAM to 4G, and the XP Pro to 7 Ultimate.  That will be a weekend project if I really … Continue reading