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New PlatinumGrade.com Design

petewood — Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:37:57 +0000

I’ve been working on the new design for my company. It’s full of CSS beauty! Check it out and let me know what you think! Platinum Grade Consulting

Some random news

petewood — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:09:04 +0000

I have a bunch of stuff to talk about so I’ll just get started. Have a seat, kick your feet up, grab the adult beverage of your choice and STFU!

I changed the colors of my company site…again. My hope is to make it easy on the eyes and also to make people think “Whoa, that’s a wicked awesome site! I must give this guy/company tons of my cash to make me a wicked awesome site like that!” That hasn’t happened yet so I suppose I’ll keep designing new color schemes. Special thanks to Meri for the help this weekend; Misty for all of the “that’s hideous, change it” criticism; and Barry, for being one of the guys that I go to with my PHP/JavaScript questions; Rich for being the other guy I go to for my PHP questions.. Sincere thanks to all of you for all of your help.

My neighbors are staying with us. They are moving to the Chicago area and their house got packed up and loaded yesterday. We have been helping them quite a bit that past 2 months or so. They got us a plaque that says “Great Neighbor” award. In showing (more) appreciation, they are going to fly us up to Chicago-land to visit them whenever we want to go. That’s f***ing cool! They are in the top two neighbors that I’ve ever had, with Rich and Marion being #1.

Aaron has a new trick: climbing. And what does he like to climb you ask? His crib. He loves, absolutely loves, to climb out at nap time and go read some books. He’s quick about it too. I have pictures of him demonstrating his love of climbing out of his crib. It’s amazing. I’ll post them tonight or something. We bought him an awesome headboard and footboard set at an auction about 2 weeks ago. We were hoping to not actually use them for a while (like a year!) but Aaron is forcing our hand. We bought side-rails this weekend. Do you see where this is going? We bought him a mattress yesterday. We are going to set up the bed along-side his crib. Ugh. This is going to be a tough change for all of us, especially Meri. We are pretty sure that he won’t be taking many more naps.

I think that’s everything as of late. If it’s not, I’ll add more later.

Website development

petewood — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:06:32 +0000

I found this on digg. It’s funny to me because I was battling some of this crap the past couple of days on a page on my company website.

XTHML 1.0 Transitional

petewood — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 21:23:06 +0000

Just fair warning, I’m ranting about geeky stuff regarding web design/development…

I read a chapter in a book on HTML and CSS design about how to make your website(s) “standards compliant”. I said what the hell, let’s do it. So I started with the contact list page of PeopleArray. I ran the validator from the website of the group that defines what makes up the web standards (World Wide Web Consortium or W3C). I went to the contact list, let it load, viewed the source and copied it, pasted it into the validator and let it rip. The first few passes produced a ton of errors. Some of the errors included no alt’s on my image tags, I had a closing div but it wasn’t ever actually opened and then some id’s of some elements were duplicated (I made those classes and updated the CSS accordingly). Now I have one error…and I have no clue how to get around it AND I can’t believe that this isn’t allowed in the XHTML 1.0 Transitional DOCTYPE. You ready for this? the onClick property isn’t allowed for anchor tags! WTF?!

So I looked it up and found this page. This page shows all of the allowed properties for different tags under this DocType. The only on* properties allowed for an anchor tag are onBlur and onFocus! No onClick. So now I’m trying to figure out how to get around this. onBlur doesn’t work, maybe onFocus?

EDIT: onFocus isn’t the answer. I guess this part of the website won’t adhere to the XHTML 1.0 Transitional (of Strict) standards.

Starting my new company

petewood — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:21:06 +0000

I’ve decided on a name and a purpose and done my first bit of legwork.

My company name is going to be Platinum Grade Consulting. My purpose will be two-fold:

Web Development (immediately)
Lansa Consulting (someday)

Last night, I got the paperwork from the Bartlett Town Hall. I still have to fill it out and turn it in. I’m pretty excited about this. This morning, I registered the domain platinumgrade.com.