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March 21, 2007
by Robert
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crown update

Yes, less than a week after the initial release, I’m posting version 2 of my Crown of Daisies style for K2. I really have added some worthwhile features in the past 4 days, though. I went through and cleaned up all the CSS, including some stuff that simply no longer existed in WordPress 2.1 or K2 0.9. The menu at the top of the header is now the same class as the menu at the bottom, with the ID of menu-top responsible for positioning it at the top.  I also added styling to make all posts in the category Quick appear in a smaller font and with a layout generally more fitting to short posts.  (This styling doesn’t apply on their individual pages.)  The post immediately before this one is a quick post, if you look at the front page.

A similar update to Kyoto Sunset is likely to follow shortly.

March 21, 2007
by Robert
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short post

This is to test out the new CSS that I wrote for short posts.  Hopefully I’ll post more often now.

March 17, 2007
by Robert
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crown of daisies

A new K2 style is out. You can grab it from here if you like what you see in front of you. I also updated Kyoto Sunset to use Internet Explorer’s alpha filter for transparency in the header.

I’ve also been working on a new frontpage for Uni. You can check it out here. Inspired by Brown University’s website, it uses some of Yahoo’s nice UI libraries for fancy sliding efects. It’s also where I picked up the IE transparency trick.

I’ll probably put up some updates to my design site over the next week, seeing as I have spring break in Maryland and not a whole lot else to do.

October 1, 2006
by Robert
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UI evolution

.Mac announced a fancy AJAX-based webmail interface “coming soon” this week. This is pretty cool in its own right, but take a look at that screenshot: the column header isn’t Aqua styled. Instead, it (kind of) matches the new iTunes 7 interface. The scrollbars are still Aqua, not iTunes-y, but I assume that’s the result of the fact that it’s running under Safari rather than using custom UI controls. I wonder just how much of the Aqua interface will be overhauled in Leopard. I can’t see Apple being a big fan of inconsistent GUI elements all over.

Preview of the new .Mac webmail interface:
.Mac Webmail
Itunes 7 interface:
iTunes 7 Interface
Mail 2 interface (Aqua), for reference:
Mail Interface

September 17, 2006
by Robert
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résumé

My newly tricked-out résumé is now online. (Leave the accents off of the URL for your health.) It features some fun XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript, along with a boring PDF. Check it out if you’re into that sort of thing.
As a side note, accents are easy to add on the Mac. Just type Option+e and then the letter that you want to accent. I wonder how it works in Windows.
And now time for homework and perhaps some of that good college application fun.