Jinked

This morning I was bit by the design bug, wanting to do a new design for a blog/portfolio deal. I’m not sure if I will use it myself, give it to a friend or just keep it around for practice. There are a lot of things yet I want to try with WordPress 3.0.

I like getting my hands dirty. I like breaking things. I am definitely not afraid to push buttons. It’s what database backups are for, or one better, localhosts. If you don’t tinker, how will you ever learn?

I was thinking today about my friend Atom and his somewhat, kind of recent (okay, maybe not recent at all) affinity to keeping things simple in design. No unneeded flourishes. Not a lot of images. Using CSS to its maximum potential. I like designing and developing like that because for me it’s a bit like a puzzle.

“How can I create this great effect with only code?”

I owe much to the people who helped me get even better with my HTML, CSS, PHP, jQuery and all that good development stuff. Atom and Brian come to mind a lot. I’m glad they had the patience and the gall (friendly gall, mind you) to tell me I wasn’t doing something right, or I could clean up the code this way, or that I was a straight up a lazy ass when I built something in tables because it took less time. I’ll never forget that day, Brian. Never! I wanted to prove you wrong so bad, and I did. And I got better. And now I thank you for that.

People who can code have always been very attractive to me. It must be my geek resonating something fierce, but it’s okay. I like it. If someone tells me the z-index of their love is over 9000, then I’d rather take that one confession than a dozen roses any day.

But only if the position is relative.