Some of you regulars (hi Mom) may have noticed a recent and long overdue facelift to this blog. It’s the Build WordPress theme by Pushkraj Dole, but with major structural and aesthetic modifications. I’ll explain what I did through some blog design tips for your CSS, but first, here’s my user interface design mantra: No [...]
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Archive vs. archives, Internet vs. internet
It’s been a week of learning new words and word forms! For your edification, should you not already know these differences, I present some lexical tidbits of interest: archive vs. archives The OED definition of archive begins: “ 1. A place in which public records or other important historic documents are kept. Now only in pl.” [...]
Custom searching in Chrome
Quick tip for Chrome users! (I hear this is also possible in Firefox.) You can set custom searches. For example, I can type “wik Saarinen” into the URL/search bar, and the results page on Wikipedia will show up. Or I can type “wrf avouer”, and the definition of avouer in English will pop up from [...]
Time traveling in my web design past
I began learning HTML and CSS almost a decade ago. The bulk of my introduction to web design was through Diaryland, where I made blog templates for masses of confessional bloggers who were also 14 years old and living the drama of 8th grade. I called my website Daisy Designs, then Pokytemps (in an effort [...]
The future of marginalia
The NYT clearly has eyes only for the Newberry The New York Times published an article on Monday entitled “Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins.” I got really excited about it, especially since G. Thomas Tanselle and Heather Jackson were quoted. But it turned out to be more of a list [...]
