websitehttp://rarepattern.com/taxonomy/term/4/atom/feed2005-10-28T01:40:33-05:00Updated rare patternhttp://rarepattern.com/nodes/2007/10/updated-rare-pattern2007-10-18T17:43:39-05:002007-10-18T19:33:16-05:00Laura ScottI updated the site from Drupal 4.7.something to Drupal 5.3, and seem to have discovered some conflicts. But I can't deal with it right now because the D/BUG meet-up is coming up and I really should try to eat something before-hand.
Later tonight, hopefully, I'll find time to clean out some modules and drop some database tables just to tidy up. And I might as well rebuild the theme from scratch as the mark-up wasn't really worth saving.
So for now I'm running Jeff Robbins' Zen theme. Clean, legible, it'll do. I'll try to spruce up the place soon with a suitably rare pattern.
]]>I updated the site from Drupal 4.7.something to Drupal 5.3, and seem to have discovered some conflicts. But I can't deal with it right now because the D/BUG meet-up is coming up and I really should try to eat something before-hand.
Later tonight, hopefully, I'll find time to clean out some modules and drop some database tables just to tidy up. And I might as well rebuild the theme from scratch as the mark-up wasn't really worth saving.
So for now I'm running Jeff Robbins' Zen theme. Clean, legible, it'll do. I'll try to spruce up the place soon with a suitably rare pattern.
]]>Cow blogginghttp://rarepattern.com/nodes/2007/03/cow-blogging2007-03-23T02:11:32-05:002007-03-23T02:15:24-05:00Laura ScottOne of my favorite "old media" tech sites, Creative Cow, has launched a community blog site. With anticipation, I clicked on the link in the email announcement and as soon as the page loaded I had to laugh.
The Creative Cow has been a fabulous resource for tech talk on video, HD, DVD. It's a truly grassroots effort, forged in the 1990s, when many in video, television and film were spinning from (or left hanging by) the enormous upheavals that took place as "desktop" postproduction and digital video cameras started to disrupt the long-standing hegemony of the multi-million-dollar production houses. What system do I buy? What video card is best? How do I change my BIOS to get the most video performance? My system has been EOL'd by the manufacturer -- what now? Oh no, the blue screen of death -- what now? How can I make this effect? Anyone know a sound recorder in Santa Fe?....
My blog account has not yet been approved, but I see that they've adopted a wysiwyg editor. (TinyMCE? Oh dear!) Still, it's nice to welcome a "web 1.0" powerhouse in old media into the "web 2.0" world.
]]>One of my favorite "old media" tech sites, Creative Cow, has launched a community blog site. With anticipation, I clicked on the link in the email announcement and as soon as the page loaded I had to laugh.
The Creative Cow has been a fabulous resource for tech talk on video, HD, DVD. It's a truly grassroots effort, forged in the 1990s, when many in video, television and film were spinning from (or left hanging by) the enormous upheavals that took place as "desktop" postproduction and digital video cameras started to disrupt the long-standing hegemony of the multi-million-dollar production houses. What system do I buy? What video card is best? How do I change my BIOS to get the most video performance? My system has been EOL'd by the manufacturer -- what now? Oh no, the blue screen of death -- what now? How can I make this effect? Anyone know a sound recorder in Santa Fe?....
My blog account has not yet been approved, but I see that they've adopted a wysiwyg editor. (TinyMCE? Oh dear!) Still, it's nice to welcome a "web 1.0" powerhouse in old media into the "web 2.0" world.
]]>Changing servershttp://rarepattern.com/nodes/2006/05/changing-servers2006-05-04T14:17:01-05:002006-05-04T14:17:01-05:00Laura ScottI'm moving this site to a new server, so I'm temporarily disabling commenting and registration while DNS propagates.
If you can post a comment or register, then you're seeing the new site.
Thanks. (Did I mention I hate this DNS time lag business?)
]]>I'm moving this site to a new server, so I'm temporarily disabling commenting and registration while DNS propagates.
If you can post a comment or register, then you're seeing the new site.
Thanks. (Did I mention I hate this DNS time lag business?)
]]>testhttp://rarepattern.com/nodes/2006/04/test2006-04-08T23:11:59-05:002006-04-08T23:11:59-05:00Laura Scotttest
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]]>Running 4.7 ... kinda sorta almosthttp://rarepattern.com/nodes/2006/04/running-4-7-kinda-sorta-almost2006-04-07T22:12:27-05:002006-04-07T22:12:27-05:00Laura ScottThis is what you call the half-way update. This site is now running Drupal 4.7, but the theme itself continues with the old code. I have more updating to do, but since virtually nobody even sees this blog, well, I suppose it doesn't matter too much at this point. If you come across any bugs here, please let me know. (And yes, I know about the errant navigation link up top.)
When/if I get a break tomorrow from work work work, I'll tinker around some more and make those requisite changes to the theme. And then we can have some more fun with 4.7.
Already I'm loving it. This is a huge update for Drupal!
]]>This is what you call the half-way update. This site is now running Drupal 4.7, but the theme itself continues with the old code. I have more updating to do, but since virtually nobody even sees this blog, well, I suppose it doesn't matter too much at this point. If you come across any bugs here, please let me know. (And yes, I know about the errant navigation link up top.)
When/if I get a break tomorrow from work work work, I'll tinker around some more and make those requisite changes to the theme. And then we can have some more fun with 4.7.
Already I'm loving it. This is a huge update for Drupal!
]]>Sometimes a little redesign is necessaryhttp://rarepattern.com/nodes/2006/03/sometimes-a-little-redesign-is-necessary2006-03-27T01:34:01-06:002006-03-27T01:57:08-06:00Laura ScottI just went and did it: a little css reboot. I just couldn't take the drab look of this place any more. Really, the old theme was an embarrassment. My apologies are offered in advance to those of you on dial-up for whom this page will take some 40 seconds or so to load fully. The graphics should all be there by the time you finish reading this post -- Evelyn Wood graduates excepted.
The theme is powered by phpTemplate. (I'm still running Drupal 4.6 here.) The photograph is mine, shot in Colorado. There are more where that came from on my photoblog.
Lucky for me there's an occasion for this. I saw the CSS Reboot happening last year, but it was a total coincidence that this little redesign is coinciding with the current "event."
Alas, this site is not validating right now. Grrr! Part of the problem -- most of it -- is because I blog using ecto, which doesn't quite generate valid strict xhtml -- or at least it doesn't with the settings I'm using. But I'm sure one or two of the errors are in my Drupal theme template files themselves. (If I were a petty soul, I'd be gratified that I'm getting fewer errors than the CSS Reboot site itself. But I'm only petty enough to mention it without any joy.) I'll try to clean things up before the May 1 deadline. Because even though I did this for myself, the site really should validate.
But it's late. I'm tired. I have work to do tomorrow, and for many tomorrows after that. Hopefully I'll find some time before tomorrow is yesterday.
(Okay, dial-up visitors. By now the background images should have loaded by now. Do you like it?)
]]>I just went and did it: a little css reboot. I just couldn't take the drab look of this place any more. Really, the old theme was an embarrassment. My apologies are offered in advance to those of you on dial-up for whom this page will take some 40 seconds or so to load fully. The graphics should all be there by the time you finish reading this post -- Evelyn Wood graduates excepted.
The theme is powered by phpTemplate. (I'm still running Drupal 4.6 here.) The photograph is mine, shot in Colorado. There are more where that came from on my photoblog.
Lucky for me there's an occasion for this. I saw the CSS Reboot happening last year, but it was a total coincidence that this little redesign is coinciding with the current "event."
Alas, this site is not validating right now. Grrr! Part of the problem -- most of it -- is because I blog using ecto, which doesn't quite generate valid strict xhtml -- or at least it doesn't with the settings I'm using. But I'm sure one or two of the errors are in my Drupal theme template files themselves. (If I were a petty soul, I'd be gratified that I'm getting fewer errors than the CSS Reboot site itself. But I'm only petty enough to mention it without any joy.) I'll try to clean things up before the May 1 deadline. Because even though I did this for myself, the site really should validate.
But it's late. I'm tired. I have work to do tomorrow, and for many tomorrows after that. Hopefully I'll find some time before tomorrow is yesterday.
(Okay, dial-up visitors. By now the background images should have loaded by now. Do you like it?)
]]>One of these days....http://rarepattern.com/nodes/2005/12/one-of-these-days2005-12-05T21:20:59-06:002005-12-05T22:21:01-06:00Laura Scott...yeah....one of these days....I'm going to give this place some sort of design.... One of these days....
]]>...yeah....one of these days....I'm going to give this place some sort of design.... One of these days....
]]>ecto experimentationhttp://rarepattern.com/nodes/2005/11/ecto-experimentation2005-11-22T07:43:40-06:002005-11-22T08:43:46-06:00Laura ScottI've noticed that my ecto configurations have led to post content that is not validating, so I am experimenting with some settings.
For the most part, ecto plays well with Drupal using the MoveableType API. But what looks good on screen doesn't always mean it validates well. And since this site has the least traffic of all the places I post, this is where the fun will happen.
My apologies for the run-together paragraphs and hinky formatting that might result while I'm sorting this out.
]]>I've noticed that my ecto configurations have led to post content that is not validating, so I am experimenting with some settings.
For the most part, ecto plays well with Drupal using the MoveableType API. But what looks good on screen doesn't always mean it validates well. And since this site has the least traffic of all the places I post, this is where the fun will happen.
My apologies for the run-together paragraphs and hinky formatting that might result while I'm sorting this out.
It's not too pretty yet, but hey, I did it in a half hour. I'll polish it and get the margins right, maybe add some graphics. I haven't had a chance to put stylus to pad yet. In fact my new WACOM pad is some 6 weeks old now and I've hardly touched it, thanks to my most-uncooperative back, so I'll probably do the mouse thing, which is much more familiar to me, anyway, despite the theoretical limitations.
And so far I've left a lot of extra garbage in the templates and css files. I'd be more tidy, but I've been busy working on the site plan for a major community site (to be announced on the web design site) and a proposal for a robust non-profit site, and that leaves a little blogging time, here and elsewhere, and some selfish reclusive indulgence time reading The Da Vinci Code.
Besides, I plan on keeping this site pretty simple, so hopefully I won't get lost in tangent land and wind up with a dog pile of text all in one corner of the screen. And once I get ahead of the curve on those websites, and caught up on the big DVD project that has outgrown its intention, I'll really clean up the code and submit the theme to Drupal.
Anyway, if you see a glitch, shoot me a note. Constructive feedback is most welcome.
]]>
I've read about it. I've talked about it. I've thought about it (a lot). But now I thought I'd just do it. So I went through the page template, ripped out the tables and wrapped everything in divs, dropped some position settings in the stylesheet, moved the main content up top to load first, and here it is.
It's not too pretty yet, but hey, I did it in a half hour. I'll polish it and get the margins right, maybe add some graphics. I haven't had a chance to put stylus to pad yet. In fact my new WACOM pad is some 6 weeks old now and I've hardly touched it, thanks to my most-uncooperative back, so I'll probably do the mouse thing, which is much more familiar to me, anyway, despite the theoretical limitations.
And so far I've left a lot of extra garbage in the templates and css files. I'd be more tidy, but I've been busy working on the site plan for a major community site (to be announced on the web design site) and a proposal for a robust non-profit site, and that leaves a little blogging time, here and elsewhere, and some selfish reclusive indulgence time reading The Da Vinci Code.
Besides, I plan on keeping this site pretty simple, so hopefully I won't get lost in tangent land and wind up with a dog pile of text all in one corner of the screen. And once I get ahead of the curve on those websites, and caught up on the big DVD project that has outgrown its intention, I'll really clean up the code and submit the theme to Drupal.
Anyway, if you see a glitch, shoot me a note. Constructive feedback is most welcome.
