Archive for the tag "web design"

• Finally using the blogroll feature in WP, to display my “other stuff” links. Looks exactly the same, but it’ll be easier for me to maintain. #
• Music reviewers *constantly* title their articles with bad jokes based on my name. Check it out. edithfrost.com/tag/bad_titles/ #
• waiting for Wil at the bart. I made a plugins list on my about page… edithfrost.com/about #
• I’m excited to be one of the cool kids Harper invited to his illList. If it were anybody else I’d say no f’n way! But this’ll be nerdy fun. #

• The banner-dragging airplanes are back. WaMu will never get my business, not that they’d want it. #
• Think I’ve finally got a more or less sensible format for my blog-blatherings. RSS people, I am sooo sorry. Please bear with me! Or not. #
• Dang, I gotta stop listing my tags on my index page if I’m going to use fifty bazillion of ‘em! Just moving around the ugly, but still. #
• My little sister Lilly (@queenlil09) says they opened a Panera in SAN ANTONIO. WTF? They don’t need that soup, WE need that soup! #
• I was walking and some guys commented in Spanish that it’s a shame I don’t like men. OJO: Hay gente en este mundo que hablan Español! #
• p.s. It’s the hoodie. #
• Jodi is so sleepy
• Blue Angels: They’re Here (via SFist)

• Unfollowing somebody for being a hater. #
• Lazy Rock Star? Gibson Creates Self-Tuning Guitar
• Dunno if I like mixing twitters in with my blog posts. Too awkward-looking. Want to fix that, and also mix in Flickr/Reader/delicious feeds. #
•  Shot after breakfast at the Royal Café
• Getting ready to go see the Invisible Cities at the Du Nord #
• Faced with an all-consuming desire to get my paws on that box from Levenger. Should be later this week. #
•  Bay Bridge tunnel at Yerba Buena Island
  
• The Invisible Cities at Café du Nord
  

• Apologies to RSS subscribers if you’re getting multiple copies of my "updated" (not) posts. I’m tweaking my feed, gotta get it just right. #
• Three guesses what I’m about to do to this plugin: http://tinyurl.com/yvqllt #
• p.s. I didn’t mean it THAT way, perv! :-P #
• I whipped up my own randomized lyrics plugin. You don’t want it though! Nobody would want it but me, and even I don’t really want it. #
• rsizr - intelligent image resizing

• Ugh. htaccess and mod_rewrite are straining my brain something awful. I need to get better at regex, I shoulda had that down cold years ago. #
• It may be dawning on me that the Twitter plugin I’m using is generating funky dates. Need to roll my own, but that’s a huge can’o'worms. #
• I just blew my occasional allowance for luxuriousness. It’s a Levenger Circa Zip Folio, size compact, in eggplant. Yay! Can’t wait for UPS. #
• F’book says (with a broken-heart icon) that a friend went from being "in a relationship" to "single". Am I to post condolences on his wall? #
• How To Add Wordpress 2.3 Tags To Your Current Theme
• mod_rewrite Cheat Sheet
• Goodbye (to the Chicago Reader production staff)

• Had my head buried in WP all day. I’ve learned how to import posts w/ underscored slugs, & how to do category images. Also: I like widgets. #

• My pal Jeff Economy is interviewing Porter Wagoner next week. Wickedly, I told him to ask PW if he’s heard of Cynthia Plastercaster. Hee!! #
• Plopped a discography box front’n'center on my index page. So now it’s even messier, but at least ppl will be aware I’m a fucking musician. #
• @buzz: great work getting PodWorks supporting my precious!! #
• FYI to my blog readers (all 3 of them): if you want to comment on my Twitters, getcherself an account and get crackin’ with the @ symbol! #
• YAY, Perio has a new record coming out!! I’ve been waiting YEARS but I guess one more month won’t kill me. http://www.myspace.com/periomusic #
• We just watched ‘Blades of Glory’. Mostly terrible, but I laughed. Can’t believe they didn’t get Nancy Kerrigan to do her ‘WHYYY’ thing. #

• Making boxes. I now have boxes for recent del.icio.us links, YouTube faves, Google Reader shared items. Everything’s linked to its RSS feed. #
• Sez Wil: WTF is a Google Reader shared item? He’s right, gotta fix that. The eyes of the general populace will glaze over upon seeing this. #
• Singing harmonies along to Laura Gibson, even though I don’t think I’ve ever heard this stuff before. I can do that, I have mad skillz. :-) #
• This girl is killing me!! Gives me songwriter jealousy: I wish I wrote & recorded this shit myself. www.myspace.com/lauragibson #

• Added a new code-snippet to my front page, for recent bookmarks at del.icio.us. Using Magpie to pull in the RSS feed. Later for FeedGrab… #
• Submitted my first answer to the NPR Sunday Puzzle challenge. It’s too easy, there’ll be tons of entries. http://tinyurl.com/2se8xq #
• North Korea FTW! #

• Importing the Memphis Belles box set on Bear Family. Late b-day present from Wil — said it was something little! This is huge!! #
• Renewed my hosting w/ ICDSoft.com. 5 years of great service, I swear by ‘em. (And I get a month free for every referral… just sayin’…!!) #
• GOD!! FeedGrab’s offset parameter works in SECONDS, not hours. No wonder it wasn’t doing anything! (I only use HH:MM in my templates.) #
• Ordered a PayPal Security Key for five smackers. It’s pretty James Bond… http://tinyurl.com/yu6e63 #

Awhile back in Chicago, Leroy Bach asked me to join in on a song he was recording.  I was to be singing in a girly trio type thing along with my good pals, the divas of the barroom, Kelly Hogan and Nora O’Connor.  It was for a project he was producing for his friend Sonny Smith.  Sonny is awesome.  He’s a San Francisco native, a traveling-troubadour type dude, the kind of guy who always wears a hat.  He’s toured around and recorded with some of my most esteemed musical contemporaries, like Jolie Holland and Neko Case.  So anyway, this record’s been out for a few months now. It’s called FRUITVALE and it’s very very good.  I’ve been negligent about posting it to my discography — got my copy last week though, so here it is.

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Don’t be alarmed if things keep flipping around in here… I finally figured out how to get the upcoming-shows entries to only appear in the shows section so they’re no longer cluttering up the front page and confusing everyone.  Do let me know if anything really weird happens (broken links, etc) — I’m just fixing stuff as I run across these funkinesses but I’m sure there are lots I haven’t seen yet.  God, this site is such a beast!!!  I love it but I hate it, ha ha.

My sister Lucie is away from the internet until Tuesday but I talked to her on the phone about my search for the perfect avatar for her.  I have her permission to post the ones I’ve gotten so far, and turn it into some kinda contest.  So if anyone else wants to submit more, please do, and when she gets back she’ll pick her favorite.  She says "Lil Sis" is fine, and also consents to some sort of usage of one of her old nicknames, "Lucifer".  Teehee!!  Or, if you have any other bright ideas, go for it!  Post a comment if you have one to submit, and I’ll e-mail you back with my address if you don’t have it already.  It needs to be a 50×50 image, there are no other rules.  Multiple submissions are fine, and Lucie’s decision will be final.  :-)

Avatar authors L-R: Sarah Pop-Tart; Matthew; Sarah again

I’m getting better with my CSS; I feel freer now to make up my own div-tags for certain styles I need to apply to my posts. The newest one is <div class="quotation">… you can see it in action on the previous post, and in the press categories like this one. My album reviews were especially messed up… sometimes my own comments would be italicized, and the quotation would be in plaintext, and sometimes it’d be the other way around, or maybe I’d use blockquotes instead. Well I cleaned ‘em all up so now you always see a gray bar to the left of quoted text, and only album titles and things that need emphasis are italicized. I know… who cares, but I think it looks nicer and it’s a lot easier to see who said what.

Colors, ugh.  I’m trying to come up with a decent color scheme to use for the idea I mentioned in the last post. The idea is to get my posts to appear in differently-styled boxes, using colors based on their categories.  I.e., a post in ‘Spam Tirades’ would logically be colored diarrhea-brown with little turds around the border, whereas something in ‘my photos’ might look better against a plain cream-colored box.  Trouble is, I have a LOT of categories and don’t want to get too crazy with this.

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