- Rudy Kincaid
- Bonnie Handover
- Wince Fittle
- Terrir Acht Noicht
- Sars N. Mount
- Choice Goldman
- February Banks
- Capt. Swincey J. Kloke
- Tiddly G. Toddle
- Habberd Quance
- Royce L’Vier
- Dick Frackis
- Fritz Carlisle
- Journ B’Journ
- Tolde Unspool
- Craven McNasty
- Cascade Monarch
- Summer Dandy
- Locust Hastle
- Guard Pacer
- Horace Baste
- Tiny Jim Corrudo
- Plaster Bass (née Base)
- Astlar Bondice
- East Joyce Zahala
- Boynce Christle
- Dart
- Grave Harks
- Mr. Once
- Once Jr.
- Oncen Twice
- Cannon Byal
- John Cumin
- Toast O’Maley
- Wader Gates
- Passenger 9
- Rave Dan
- Yukon Gold
- Terrance Chowhound
- Supposedly Junk
- Karen Parsley
- Von Slausy
- Trail Bitter
- Huber Lalye
- Kalis Mayne
- Winter Heater
- Talis Arvér
- Quiver St. Cloud
- Dahvin Lancelot
- Rocket Springload
- Chauncey B. Hassel
Forever Dancer
Minutiæ #3: Worth
Wall Drawings from April and May 2010
Minutiæ #3 Holder Image
Site Design Spring 2010
After about a year of trying to figure out what to do with my main domain, after splintering it off into DCoVideo or DailyDCo in the past few years, I have decided to fold everything back in upon itself. It is all at dco1.com now. It’s just simpler that way.
This new design allows me to create a portfolio for my web design, show off videos I’ve done and provide a good space for fun and goofy stuff that was previously held at DailyDCo*.
* I hopefully will be slowly bringing stuff over from the archives that is worth bringing over
Focus
Aside from the silly PageRank stuff about subdomains and all that, it just didn’t make sense any more to have so many different branches, thus making the main page useless, as seen in the screenshot below. It became a silly directory of what I was up to and where else I could be found.
While the main page wasn’t worth anything, DailyDCo was struggling to have some kind of meaning. It wasn’t daily anymore, that’s for sure. Also, in the time I created it back in the Summer of 2008, my skills at manipulating Wordpress (and recently Javascript) have grown that made the entire site feel like I was trying to duct tape large images onto a wonky structure.
Now, there are still some separate parts. I don’t want to bring the food blog, These Things I Eat, into this entire thing because it has got a nice (teeny tiny) following at it’s current home and I don’t want to ruin any momentum I could possibly ever have. Also, Cards by DCo is going to be by itself because it is really just a suped up image gallery, but I like the presentation for it that this current design could never provide.
The Coding Behind It
Wordpress powers the back-end, with JQuery, CSS3 and (mostly) HTML5 helping out.
The top Twitter bar that appears at most pages that aren’t single posts gets the posts using the Twitter Tools plugin, and presents them using a custom hook so they are presented properly. There is a CSS class applied to each tweet, depending on it’s length, so they won’t run over a single line but still appear as large as possible. The rotating is courtesy of the JCycle plug-in.
There’s nothing more wonderful than alpha channel color declarations in CSS3. Being able to try different shades of gray with rgba(0,0,0,.5) makes everything go much more smoothly. I was going through different variations (see draft two below), but nothing seemed to work quite right. However, I always knew that I wanted something far more module, so I could create various post styles on the fly very simply. If I wanted a post just down the middle of the page, I can give it a CSS class of four center or throw an image to the side with two right.
Suburban Sub-Division Name Generator
The Big Game
