Standing by…

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It’s an eventful evening! My half-sister, Ritah Parrish, is flying in tonight. I haven’t seen her since I was maybe 9 or 10. This is incredibly exciting, for sure. She lives in Oregon and does acting in independent films as well as standup in the Portland, OR area. Her latest is Addison’s Wall — it’s available from Netflix. Cooool. :)

It’s funny how much and how little time does. Back when I was so young, I would sing Weather Channel songs and try to deny it. Now, some 12 years later, it doesn’t seem like much has changed. ;)

I’ve also been busy making some fixes to the site template (search results aren’t fugly anymore) and adding some content in some places and “under construction” bumpers in others. It’s very exciting to have a new look to mess with. Thinking about it, this is the first real major revamp of the look since a year and a half ago. Exciting stuff. The initial feedback is very positive. :)

By the way, if you use IE and launch something from one of the menus, when you move your mouse away, it looks like the page stops loading. This is because in order for older IEs to display the menus properly, it has to invoke JavaScript on mouse over and mouse out. Since the script runs on those events, it appears to abort page load by stopping the loading animation. Fear not — it’s still loading. Just give it time.

Going back to class and work tomorrow is going to be a drag. What’s amazing is that there’s one more left in the semester, and that’s it for this academic year. Scary!

Anyway, we’re off to KCHS to pick her up. Catch you all tomorrow!

Yep, it’s changed.

Posted at 4:55 pm / tagged: , , / 4 comments »

No, this is not an April Fool joke, folks, this is for real. Welcome to the new JaredWSmith.com. :)

In the course of two days I have managed to code and draw up a brand new look for the entire site. I’m pretty pleased with this look. There’s still work to be done, and that work will continue, albeit at a bit of a slower pace. However, a full bio, full information about me, and all that fun stuff will be here in short order. As time goes on, too, more features will be rolled out that take advantage of the new interface. Go ahead, roll over the menu near the top; you’ll like it, especially if you use Firefox and IE 7. You’ll see a lush dropshadow with subtle transparencies…mmm, nice. This is definitely more graphically oriented than I have done in the recent past.

I’m using WordPress as the CMS now. It didn’t make sense to have one set of static pages at one subdomain and the blog at the other, so I combined the two. If you have bookmarks, links, etc., that go to blog.jaredwsmith.com, don’t worry — those will all still work. www.jaredwsmith.com is mirroring blog.jaredwsmith.com’s contents now. While blog.jaredwsmith.com will still function for things like RSS feeds and permalinks, I strongly, STRONGLY suggest updating your bookmarks to use www.jaredwsmith.com, as that’s where all the stuff is now going.

Drop your feedback in comments. I hope you all like the new look — and please be patient. I’m continuing to add more stuff and make fixes and the like. :)

J

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New site for phpBB modifications launched

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Congratulations to Patrick — his latest site, phpBB3M0ds.com, has launched. Think of it as phpBBHacks.com with its expertise trained exclusively with the new phpBB 3 bulletin board system, which is expected to enter release candidate phase pretty much at any moment. Here’s his announcement of the new site.