Justin Cox

Posts tagged with design

Welcome to the Future… Again

As the story goes, I got bored with the site design again — and in this case, with the site as a whole. I wanted more of a very simple homepage that very quickly gives visitors a quick look at who I am rather than focusing on the largely out of date blog posts.
So that’s [...]

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Twitterversery: Or how I completely failed this post

Today is my one year Twitterversery. I had this really cool idea to celebrate by loading my complete Twitter stream and then get a giant screen capture and post it here. But as is usually the case, Murphy showed up and prevented any such thing. I couldn’t load the entire stream — Twitter stopped my [...]

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The Favicon: Or why sites that don’t use them piss me off

Ok. Let’s start this off with a quick refresher. The favicon is the simple little icon that shows up next to the domain in your browser window, in your bookmark list, or your RSS feed reader — you should really be using one. Start by subscribing to my feed.

It’s really a simple thing. A little [...]

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Easy Spoiler Tags in Wordpress with CSS

I’ve been known to spoil a few things in the past on Twitter and here on the blog. Sometimes my excitement prevents me from using better judgement. To try and counter that, at least here on the blog, I’ve created a simple spoiler tag.
On the site, the spoiler tag will simply black out the text [...]

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Internet Explorer 6 Needs to Go Away

Notice something new? The 2009 version of Mindless Chatter hit the internet late last night. It’s been in the works for a number of weeks and has gone through a number of evolutions that resulted with what you see today.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been testing the design in a number of browsers to [...]

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