Archive for April, 2008

The biggest thing in physics

Monday, April 28th, 2008

From The Biggest Thing in Physics:

“The “large” in Large Hadron Collider is something of an understatement. “Enormous” is closer: The collider’s underground tunnel carves a circle 17 miles in circumference, traversing the border between Switzerland and France.”

See also Time Machine: CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, The God Particle, CERN’s Public Website.

Would you settle for a lesser site?

Friday, April 25th, 2008

When you’re designing a web site, you want it to be the best right? I mean … not just average looking but something you will be proud to put against those featured on showcased sites right?

You’ll often find me posting and answering questions in forums when my mind needs to be somewhere else for a few minutes. Sometimes I find myself reviewing sites. When reviewing someone’s site, I often point them to CSS Showcase sites (notably CSSMania because of it’s topics) just to give them a view on their competition. I think it’s very important to see what your competition has for a site and making sure you’re up to par with them esthetically. I mean, you’re product might be better than Company B but if your site looks like it was done when Netscape 3 was out … most people won’t look past the first impressions.</p>

Yes … it’s true unfortunately. The classic line of “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” doesn’t work in the Web Design industry. If your site looks great and it’s trendy, clients will come.

So … when you’re designing a site, don’t settle for less! Go look at what the others are doing and aim higher.

Hi-lift mounted on rollcage

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Many jeepers are looking for ways to mount their hi-lift jack on their Jeep. I decided that I wanted to keep mine as far away from Mother Nature as possible, especially with all the salt that goes on our streets in the winter time.

So with that in mind, I found out that many were mounting it behind the backseat on the rollcage. Found a few write-ups and went on from there. Notably one found on JonFund.com with a few modifications since I didn’t have a welder.

Here’s what it looks like:


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Tires sticking out of the Jeep flares

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

The SAAQ clearly states in their special documents for modified vehicles that:

“La partie supĂ©rieure de chaque roue doit ĂȘtre recouverte d’une aile sur toute la largeur de la bande de roulement.”

In english that would translate to

“The higher part of each wheel must be covered with a wing over all the bandwidth of bearing.”

(If that made sense, thank the AltaVista’s Babelfish translating system. If not, thank the AltaVista’s Babelfish translating system hehe)

As you can see from this picture, my tires stick out at about 1″ to 1 1/2″


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CSS Reset Stylesheets

Friday, April 18th, 2008

From No CSS Reset by Jonathan Snook:

“The problem I’ve had with these resets is that I then find myself declaring much more than I ever needed to just to get browsers back to rendering things the way I want. As it turns out, I’m perfectly happy with how a number of elements render by default. I like lists to have bullets and strong elements to have bolded text.”

I echo that declaration. I too used to start my stylesheet with the famous

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

The I found that I was putting back the same formatting that was already set by default on most of the elements.

As for building a base CSS stylesheet, I do have one but it mostly only contains the main separations for a site like #header, #content, etc…