After my little retrospective on my birthday, I felt the need to finish revamping this blog (visually, that is). So here it is, version 4. Be sure you give the browser a good hard refresh. But given the lack of activity here, I doubt it’s necessary for anyone. It’s back to the basics, and making sure I put every single HTML element in its proper place, while maintaining a decently organized stylesheet. Good practice for the upcoming Big Rewrite at work. Moreover, I’m getting better at Textpattern — an awesome CMS IMHO.

New Section

Along with the new design, I decided to add a new section to the blog, just to try to make the blog a little bit more interesting. There I will be spouting hot air about movies, TV shows, musicals, and music that I’ve either enjoyed or endured. I’ve written a few to kick it off.

So What Now?

Hopefully I’ll stick to my little list and post more. More personal projects coming down the pipeline. And of course, stay tuned for the new Goldstar.com

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Say hello to Kauai, version 3 of my little blog. Still working out some kinks, but most of it is good to go. I’d consider this a vast improvement over the previous version, both in aesthetics and code. I took the picture in the footer at our hotel during our honeymoon (almost a year ago!). Alas, this will be as close as I’ll get to Hawaii this year.

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It’s been more than a month since my list, and I only have a green card to show for it. To make matters worse, I’m behind in the Bible reading program, and I can’t find my Moleskine notebook for the life of me. Well, at least I have been forcing myself to wake up early, and watching 24 doesn’t require much effort at all. After all, I gotta give myself some freebies.

Now about revamping this blog. The current incarnation of my little blog was a result of my participation in last year’s CSS Reboot. I must say the event turned out to be quite a bit of a disappointment, mainly due to apathy on the organizer’s part. Moreover, I hastily cobbled together a layout in order to make the November 1 deadline, and the results were not what I expected. Therefore, a redesign has always been on my mind.

I thought it might be kind of cool to give this little project a codename. Microsoft used “Longhorn” before picking Vista as a name, and Apple uses ferocious cats to name their different versions of OS X. Not to be outdone, bloggers name their redesign projects, too. Well, I like the idea, but I’m hesitant to use names from Greek or Norse mythology (since Pegasus is an obvious choice), but I risk sounding too grandiose and perhaps inappropriate for the style. It’s a fun little exercise, but I haven’t come up with anything decent yet. I thought about using “My Thesis” so I can brag to people that I’m working hard on “My Thesis.” Ha…maybe not. I’m open to suggestions, though.

Anyway, I thought I’d put up some evidence of progress. So far I have a grid , and some improvements on the logo. At this rate, it might finish by the time the next CSS Reboot comes around on May 1 (if it even happens), but I certainly hope to be done by then.

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