That's all he wrote
This probably goes without saying, but five and a half years after I launched this blog things here are pretty much dead. It's not from a lack of interest, but time. Between running my own business, developing new products, and everything that being a dad entails, writhing pithy thoughts on a personal blog is a luxury I can no longer...Continue
August 15, 2007Screenshots: Director 1.1b
We're currently in private beta over at SlideShowPro for the next versions of both SlideShowPro (our Flash photo gallery component) and SlideShowPro Director (our CMS). The latter is going through the most dramatic changes, and has pretty much been completely overhauled from top to bottom. I'll write more about both later, but for here are a couple of screenshots that...Continue
April 23, 2007Office space found
To follow-up on my previous posts, the hunt for office space is now over. It took a lot of searching throughout East Atlanta, but I'm now under contract for a live/work loft space in Inman Park. A mere five minute drive from my home, the loft is built-out with brand new construction, has street-side entry, and plenty of space for...Continue
March 07, 2007Office space
Following up on my post from yesterday, I'm snooping around town (Atlanta) looking for some office space. I'm mainly looking in and around the Decatur area, so if you're in the ATL and know of something available, or coming available soon, drop me a line. Danke....Continue
March 06, 2007Breakups are hard to do
There comes a point in some relationships where you feel, in your gut, that it's time to move on. This was the case for me a little over a week ago when I submitted my resignation as Creative Director of Super Deluxe, and effectively ended my full time employment at Turner. Some will likely wonder, wait a second -- didn't...Continue
January 17, 2007Super Deluxe is live
Ready or not, here it comes. Super Deluxe, the new broadband comedy web site from Turner Broadcasting is live and kicking. So what is Super Deluxe? Well, it's a hybrid site of sorts. On the surface, it's an entertainment broadcast network offering original comedic content from up and coming comedians, animators, actors and directors. But Super Deluxe is also a...Continue
October 31, 2006Introducing Super Deluxe
For the past year I've written a handful of posts about a new Turner project I was working on, and yesterday the press release finally went out. It's Super Deluxe -- a new, broadband entertainment network from Turner focused on original comedy. (The link above goes to where the site will eventually be. In the meantime, the creative team thought...Continue
September 30, 2006Apple hardware for sale
It's that time once again, where I sell off some Apple hardware I no longer need. Both of these items are in perfect working condition, and the only reason why I'm letting them go is because I recently upgraded my workstation. If interested, drop me an email to mail@whatdoiknow.org. To see a photo of the two items, click here. For...Continue
August 07, 2006August
It's August, 2006. Hot as hell, and I haven't felt the urge lately to write about anything in particular. So to keep the wheels from rotting off, here's a round up of bits and things. I'm still working on a new project over at Turner Entertainment, and I still can't write anything about it. Or at least anything specific. But...Continue
May 22, 2006SlideShowPro Director
The SlideShowPro brand has given birth to a new application -- SlideShowPro Director. What's Director all about? Well, it's the result of many months of feedback from SlideShowPro users looking for an easier way to get their photos into the Flash component. Director installs on any Linux box with PHP/MySQL, and handles all your XML publishing, thumbnail creation, album organization,...Continue
May 04, 2006Designers needed
A few months ago I wrote about the need for web development assistance on a new Turner project I'm working on (as Creative Director). Today, I'm posting a slightly different "help wanted" post. I'm in need of some talented designers with solid Photoshop skills and experience creating web site composites. User interface and application design experience is a plus. Coding...Continue
March 16, 2006Advice for expectant dads
When Sophia was born a week ago today, I knew I was in for quite an experience. Everyone has heard the horror stories of how exhausting, yet exhilarating having a newborn baby can be, but take it from me -- it's impossible to know how intense the experience is until you've lived it. So with that, here's a few tidbits...Continue
March 12, 2006Sophia Marie Dominey
Surprise! This past Thursday my wife and I welcomed our first child into the world -- Sophia Marie Dominey. A very healthy eight pounds, eleven ounces, Sophia is a dream come true for us both. The past few days have been incredibly hectic, and I'm about to take a nose-dive into the keyboard writing this I'm so tired, but it's...Continue
December 22, 2005Looking for a crew
Out with the old, in with the new. The old -- my work at Turner Sports Interactive, where I designed sites for The Ryder Cup and The PGA Championship as part of the PGA.com team. The new -- Creative Director on an exciting new venture within Turner Entertainment. There will be multiple positions available on my team, including junior and...Continue
October 19, 2005RapidWeaver Slide Show
A few eagle-eye Mac users have sent emails my way asking if I've seen the photo slide show functionality built into RapidWeaver 3.2, for parts of the interface appear similar to SlideShowPro. And the answer is, that's because it is SlideShowPro, albeit a heavily modified "lite" version without a lot of the bells and whistles the component has. You can...Continue
August 11, 2005PGA Champ podcast
Update (7/17/05): The podcast is now available in the iTMS. Not only that, but it was selected as a featured item at the top of the Podcast page under "New and Notable." Sweet. Few things are as much fun for web nerds than trying out new technology. Case in point -- the 2005 PGA Championship is now podcasting. Copy this...Continue
August 08, 2005There's a new Champ in town
Another year, another major golf tournament. This morning the 2005 PGA Championship was relaunched with an updated look, which builds upon the template design and art direction of 2004 site, but (as we designers like to say) with a little more volume. The biggest change is the color -- a stronger palette of contrasting colors was chosen, with heavy emphasis...Continue
July 07, 2005Dominey Design redo
It's been over two years since my 'official' business site, Dominey Design, has been updated. I've had plenty of reasons to update it, but all my time and energy has been going towards client work, my first software product, and of course maintaining the site you're currently reading. Well today that finally changes with a small redesign of Dominey Design....Continue
June 06, 2005June Roundup
It's been a little while since I published anything here, which has everything to do with work, the weather, and various projects circling around. So with that, here's a rundown of what's happening on my side of the fence. PGA — Tournament season is back in (ahem) full swing once again, and I'm currently working on a big update to...Continue
March 13, 2005Coming soon: Professional CSS
Hitting a bookshelf near you this summer -- Professional CSS by Christopher Schmitt, Mark Trammell, Ethan Marcotte, Dunstan Orchard and...me. Published by Wrox (the company with sun deprived developers on all their book covers), the 500-page book will "...give developers a peek into the process of the best CSS designers in the world through the work of high profile, real-world...Continue
February 17, 2005The last post about SlideShowPro
This is it folks -- the last post you're likely to read on this site about SlideShowPro for quite a while. I've added a news section to the SlideShowPro site, and will be regularly updating it with tips, general news, and (hopefully sporadic) bug reports. The product has truly taken on a life of its own, and thus doesn't need...Continue
February 13, 2005SlideShowPro now available
I'm pleased to announce that SlideShowPro -- a new photo gallery component for Flash MX 2004 -- is now available. Numerous weeks of design and development went into the component, with over 50 customizable options, complete presentation control, Flickr / RSS support, full Help documentation, and a whole lot more. A personal 'thank you' to the beta testers who helped...Continue
February 06, 2005SlideShowPro available 2/14
Development on SlideShowPro -- the new v2 Flash MX 2004 photo gallery component I've been working on the past couple of months -- has finally finished. I'm now in the process of writing all the Help documentation and setting up the promotional web site, and if all goes to plan the initial 1.0 version will be released Monday, February 14....Continue
January 14, 2005New Member of the TSI Team
I've been meaning to mention this publicly, but until today it kept slipping my mind. Timothy Gray, the web developer / designer behind the much-linked-to Portland Studios, recently joined the Turner Sports Interactive team. We'll be working together on a number of upcoming PGA event sites, with all kinds of new Flash / CSS / XHTML in the cooker. As...Continue
January 12, 2005Where Has the Time Gone
Yes, it's the same old song and dance -- too busy with work and non-work projects to update the site, followed by the obligatory apology and a handful of reasons as to why. This is that post. SlideShow — First, I've been receiving emails asking about how SlideShow (the Flash component I've been working on) is coming along. The good...Continue
November 16, 2004One Small Step
Last night I started working on a new project -- not for a client, but for me. After nearly four years in its current state, the time has come to tear down my portfolio site, and potentially a whole lot more. I've been a bad parent. Dominey Design hasn't been updated in almost two years, due to my day to...Continue
September 01, 2004New Work: Beer Festival Logo
I've always wanted to design a beer logo. Not because of the drink (I'm a liquor kind of guy), but because I've always appreciated the rich typography and contained visual punch of beer labels (mostly from the independent microbreweries). So when the opportunity opened to design a logo for the 2004 Decatur Beer Tasting Festival, I jumped at the chance....Continue
August 09, 2004PGA Championship 2004
Just quick post to note to announce that the official site of The 86th PGA Championship, which I art directed, designed and coded, is up and running. The site uses a lot of the same elements and styles from last year's tournament, but the formerly xml-driven Flash navigation has been replaced with CSS. The 'Course Tour' on the home page...Continue
July 22, 2004Next book review: Essential ActionScript 2.0
Just a heads up on content you can expect to see here soon -- a review of Colin Moock's latest O'Reilly & Associates Flash title, Essential ActionScript 2.0. I personally consider his last couple of ActionScript references to be the definitive guides of the language, but 2.0 is different, for it's all about programming methodologies and concepts -- not necessarily...Continue
July 19, 2004Ryder Cup Launch
Well that happened sooner than I expected -- the official site for the The 2004 Ryder Cup has been launched, which if you didn't read the post immediately before this one, I designed and developed. This is very much a *soft* launch, with lots more information and features to come, but there was an urgency to get the basic event...Continue
July 18, 2004All Golf, All the Time
Hard to believe, but for the past few weeks all my energy and time has been applied to golf. Not playing golf, but the creative direction, design, and coding of various tournament web sites. Normally I have at least a couple of freelance projects on the side to help alleviate the repetitiousness, but summer is chocked full of tournaments, and...Continue
May 27, 2004PGA Pin Placement
I promised to stop pimping my work around here, but before I do, here's a little ditty I made in a mad rush to this morning's opening round of the Senior PGA Championship -- course pin placements rendered in Flash. To preface this, pins are moved every morning before a tournament round begins. Since every round is played on the...Continue
May 21, 2004Extra 'Scribe' Images
This weekend I'll be creating some extra side-bar header images for the 'Scribe' Blogger template. These images will be uploaded to Blogger, where users of the template can link to them for their blogs. If anyone using Scribe has a title they'd like typeset in the graphical script face, drop me a line (mail at whatdoiknow.org). Update (6/5/04): Nearly 50...Continue
May 10, 2004Introducing "Scribe" from Blogger
After numerous weeks of sitting, waiting, and wondering if this would ever see the light of day, Google has relaunched Blogger. The news is a big deal on numerous fronts -- one, for anyone who currently uses Blogger to publish their web site; two, for anyone who's considered starting a web site but didn't where to look; and three, for...Continue
March 18, 2004Har-land!
Thanks to an enterprising reader of my site, I received an email today pointing me to the web site of one Harland Williams. Unless someone has already taken it down, you can view the original web site. If not, I took the liberty of snapping a few screenshots. Now, as you'll see, either Harland himself, or a friend, didn't just...Continue
March 04, 2004'Enjoying' Comments Now Open
Due to some of the excellent comments I've received (via email) pertaining to links in my 'Enjoying' side-bar on the left, I decided to turn on comments for each link. To keep the area from getting too cluttered, I'm relying on a simple (#) link to indicate both comment availability and the number of comments that link has received. Have...Continue
February 10, 2004PGA Championship Wins WSA Award
Looks like the site I designed for the 2003 PGA Championship is the first winner of the Web Standards Awards. Until now I'd never seen the site, or heard of the award, and actually found out about it second-hand. Nevertheless, thanks to Johan Edlund for the vote. Looking forward to seeing what other sites receive the same attention....Continue
January 21, 2004Nominated? Me?
So today I found out that this site has been nominated for "Best-Designed Weblog" in the Fourth Annual Weblog Awards (the Bloggies). My initial reaction...um, okay, what award? But after reading the award rules, it turns out the nominations are based on votes from the general public. In other words, enough readers of this site thought enough of the design...Continue
December 08, 2003WASP Interview
The Web Standards Project has posted an interview with me about the redesign of PGA.com and related tournament sites I've worked on in various roles over the past year. Check it out for a behind-the-scenes look at what I've been up to lately....Continue
September 02, 2003Kickback
In the event some readers of this site may soon be purchasing Macromedia Studio MX 2004 or Flash MX Pro, and would also be interested in supporting What Do I Know, I've set up an affiliate link to the Macromedia store. Software is the same price either way, but by clicking through this store link or on the Macromedia graphic...Continue
August 19, 2003Burn Out
I'm yanking the cord. I'm taking this week off for some much needed R&R. If you send me an email and don't receive a response for a couple of days, you know why....Continue
August 14, 2003PGA Championship
After a series of micro-sites built for The Senior PGA and the Open Championship, we have finally arrived at the "big kahuna" of golf tournaments - The PGA Championship. This site uses the same template developed for The Open Championship, but with about ten times the content and millions more unique visitors. Most of the site is about the same,...Continue
July 17, 2003Open Championship
Just a quick note to announce that my latest project with Turner Sports Interactive is up and live - The Open Championship - which is currently underway at the Royal St George's golf club. We're all pulling long hours and communicating between continents to bring updated news, videos, and scoring data. As usual, the site is handcoded with CSS /...Continue
June 11, 2003Senior PGA Update
The event may be over, but I continued to tweak the home site for the Senior until finally reaching validation. Thanks to the input of Douglas Bowman, who also had to deal with nasty Doubleclick javascript ad code while working on the Wired redesign, the javascripts are now abstracted from the document in a *.js file. Various other formatting bugs...Continue
June 05, 2003New Work: Senior
New personal work to chew on - 64th Annual Senior . Within two very tight, long, coffee-drenched weeks, I designed the layout, hand-coded the xhtml markup and style sheet, and created an xml-driven Flash navigational system. The Flash nav uses no bitmaps -- all the type, drop shadows, and color blocks are dynamically drawn and placed on a blank stage...Continue
April 09, 2003PGA
My initial plan was to continue working with our Turner Sports Interactive team squashing bugs, optimizing code, and tweaking elements to bring our new site into full standards compliance before publicly linking to the project. But then the reality of the situation set in, new content and events came up, and we had to move forward before polishing the dull...Continue
April 02, 2003Where I've Been
Ever since the launch of this site over a year ago, I have maintained a steady flow of daily commentary, news, and links to content of interest. As any weblog writer will tell you, it's not an easy task - especially on a daily basis. But in-between client work, and of course my own personal life away from the keyboard,...Continue
March 29, 2003Is This Site Dead?
No. I've been working twelve to fourteen hour days for the past two weeks - weekends included - getting ready for a massive site launch. Our small, increasingly smelly team of database administrators, designers, html coders, content developers, and the almighty project manager are all frantically typing, cursing at their monitors, banging keyboards, throwing trash, cracking lame jokes, and living...Continue
March 10, 2003Big Night
Thanks to everyone who came out to our "Because We Can: Web Publishing For the Hell of It" panel yesterday at SXSW. Zeldman, Adam, and I were humbled to pull in a nearly full room - one of the largest rooms at the Convention Center - and to be the beneficiaries of so many kind comments and thoughtful questions. Going...Continue
March 05, 2003Enjoying XML Feed
By request, I'm now publishing two XML RSS feeds from my Enjoying collection of links to the interesting, the inspiring, the incredible, and the insipid. If you know what to do with these, have at 'em: XML RSS 1.0 // XML RSS 2.0...Continue
February 13, 2003Archives Update
Due to popular demand (yes, people actually ask these things) I added a new sub-section for the archives page which lumps an entire weeks worth of entries on one page. To keep the page tidy and avoid link rot, links to only the past month are offered directly. So if you miss a week and for some reason want to...Continue
February 08, 2003Tweak Tweak
Today I spent a couple of hours consolidating / optimizing the style sheet and templates that drive this site, so if something looks strange in your browser, please clear your cache and reload. The Listening index page has also been overhauled with a new layout....Continue
February 06, 2003The Secret to Exploding Stats
Pssssst! Want a cheap, easy, sure-fire way to stroke your ego and boast to friends how many 'hits' your web site gets? Well, if hits still mean something to you, or if you just like receiving very odd emails from readers, write something - anything - about MTV Cribs. Over I year ago I wrote a piece about the show,...Continue
January 26, 2003Canterbury
Because I've always looked for a good excuse to use Canterbury Old Style (I mean, how many 1920s art deco jobs do you get?) I whipped out a nameplate for the typography news and views site Typographica. Canterbury is quite possibly the oldest, least used typefaces I have (the modification date read 1984 for crying out loud), so I felt...Continue
January 16, 2003Favourite Website Award
A purely selfish announcement, but here it goes. The website for my official business arm, Dominey Design, has received a FWA One Award -- a well-known, widely recognized Flash portal site featuring the latest and best Flash content on the web. Hear that? Those are my stats exploding....Continue
November 14, 2002Flush That Cache
After multiple, annoying issues with the main nav bar, I took it apart and put it all back together again. If something looks "off" in your browser, delete your cache and reload the page. I have checked it in IE 5, 5.5 and 6 for Win 2000, as well as IE 6, Opera 6, and the new Opera 7 beta...Continue
October 30, 2002CSS Overhaul
In case you haven't noticed, the style sheets for this site have been completely overhauled and combined into one single sheet for all browsers and platforms. Unless you dug into the original code before today, you wouldn't have noticed the behind the scenes muckery. Each and every page used JavaScript to detect a reader's browser and platform, and then attached...Continue
October 21, 2002Communication Breakdown
For those of you who read this site over the weekend, you may have noticed that I shut everything down for a couple of days due to a discrepancy with our new hosting provider Dreamhost. Today, thankfully, we're back up and running without any issues (thus far). Up until last Friday I was quite pleased with the move and the...Continue
October 14, 2002Feeling Dreamy
While nobody was looking, What Do I Know switched web hosts this past weekend to the highly recommended Dreamhost. I received lots of nice user suggestions and offers from web hosts when my former web host accidentally lost my site, but Dreamhost has a history (at least among other customers we talked to) of solid support and open lines of...Continue
October 13, 2002k10k Features Flash MX Turntable. App updated.
Thanks to the crew over at k10k, our recently launched Flash MX Turntable is now a featured issue at the popular design community site. The Flash app, which admittedly soaks up a chunk of server space and bandwidth, will now and forever more be served from their Media Temple backbone. I'm pretty excited about the deal, for the piece will...Continue
October 10, 2002Flash MX Turntable Launched
It was nearly two months ago today that I wrote about updating my Flash turntable experiment, originally created in Flash 4, using nothing but Flash MX specific ActionScript syntax. Today Dominey Design launches the result - Flash MX Turntable. Because so many of the improvements are "under the hood," the following are some of the most notable changes to the...Continue
September 21, 2002Back in Business. Finally.
After nearly two weeks of blackout, What Do I Know is finally back. The downtime was far, far longer than I ever could have imagined. Thanks to the vital, brilliant support of Benjamin Trott, who put the pieces back together, and Dan Benjamin, who rooted out the domain issues that preceded this whole mess, the dawn has come and the...Continue
August 22, 2002Dominey Design Launch: Carolina Blues Festival
Dominey Design has launched a straight-no-chaser, single page site for the 2002 Carolina Downhome Blues Festival throwing down this October in Camden, South Carolina. Check out the funky, back-road, southern road stop motif, y'all....Continue
August 21, 2002Dominey Design Launch: Washington Post Electronic Edition Tour
Dominey Design is proud to announce the launch of The Washington Post Electronic Edition Tour - a new Flash / HTML web presentation promoting the renowned newspaper's brand new electronic edition. Click "Take the Tour" to view the content. The project was born out of the newspaper's desire to not only entice readers into subscribing for the new service, but...Continue
August 19, 2002Interland Nightmare, Resolved
I'm pleased to write that my recent nightmare with Interland has been resolved thanks to one very helpful sales representative. The multiple forms, faxes, and "requests on business letterhead" finally came through, and I got my money back. One point for the good consumer, none for greedy web hosts that sell your account and credit card number without permission....Continue
August 09, 2002Turntable (Update)
A little over a month ago I mentioned that I was overhauling my Flash turntable experiment - one of my first attempts at Flash interaction using Flash 4. Since then I gutted the entire movie, including all the timelines and Flash 4 code and rebuilt the whole engine using the fantastic new sound objects in Flash MX. Once I finished...Continue
July 13, 2002Home from NY
Finally back home after four days in New York attending the Flashforward 2002 conference and film festival. I attended just about every seminar offered, met tons of well-known designers in person for the first time, and soaked up earfulls of sales pitches from software developers. On Monday evening I'll publish a long, broad overview of it all - the brilliant,...Continue
July 07, 2002Photos Page Update
The photos page has been updated with a few of my photos from July 4th festivities....Continue
July 05, 2002The Latest Dish
It's the day after July 4th, and I can still taste the hot dogs. I usually eat quite healthy, and drink only liquor or wine. Yesterday though was filled with hours of keg drinkin', hamburger and hot dog eatin', and listening to the "Top 1000 Classic Rock Songs of All Time" on the radio. We were all Kid Rock for...Continue
June 27, 2002MovableType Upgrade
After a couple of hours of debugging, recreating a few of my templates, and other house cleaning tasks, this site is now running MovableType 2.2 with MySQL as the back-end database. The site rebuilds much faster now, and I can rest assured all my data is more secure than before. MT 2.2 also incorporates TrackBack, a new "framework for peer-to-peer...Continue
June 16, 2002I'm a k10k Newbie
Today I am officially a new author and member of the k10k (aka Kaliber10000) crew thanks to a gracious, unsolicited invitation from Mschmidt and Token. I have been reading and enjoying k10k for what feels like years, so to see my name listed with the aforementioned pixel pushers and others like Futurefarmers (a huge creative inspiration to me), Zeldman, WDDG,...Continue
June 07, 2002Library Update: Skip Intro
The library has been updated with a review of Skip Intro: Flash Usability and Interface Design....Continue
May 20, 2002Dominey Design Awarded Ultrashock Bomb
The web presence for my new media design studio, Dominey Design, is Ultrashock's Bomb Shock Site of the Week. The award is given "to selected designers and companies whose ideas and talent inspire and transform the global design community." Booom! :)...Continue
May 18, 2002I'm Listening To...
Just for kicks, I added a new left menu item under "Listening." Using the snappy AppleScript utility Kung-Tunes for OS X, I am publishing every two minutes what mp3 is currently playing in iTunes on my G4 workstation. The utility is still young, and the author is promising more features (like the needed inclusion of search string link tags for...Continue
May 06, 2002Blackout
My lovely web host gave me the best birthday present a guy could ask for - three days of total blackout with a card that read, "We are experiencing technical difficulties with the server. Thank you for your patience." Gosh, you shouldn't have....Continue
April 25, 2002New Work: Vote! Favorite 70s TV Show Launched
Tonight I'm launching a brand new experimental Flash application called "Vote! Favorite 70s TV Show" that demonstrates what can be done with Flash when employed as a graphical front-end for back-end scripting and database integration. Using PHP and MySQL, the application stores votes (one per user by writing a cookie) and then returns a dynamic graph to show who's in...Continue
April 16, 2002Library Update
The library has been updated with a review of Mighty Assembly's Macromedia Flash: Art, Design + Function....Continue
April 05, 2002Library How-Do
Update (11.09.02): The instructions in this post are no longer valid. The library has been redesigned to incorporate MTAmazon as part of the CMS. Several MovableType users have asked how the revamped library works behind the scenes, so I decided to sit down and hammer out a walk-through for all you MT developers. Do note that most of this may...Continue
April 04, 2002Library Redesigned, Part II
The library has been updated to accommodate reviews from readers. If you've read any of the titles in the library, I encourage you to go there and write your own impressions so that others can make informed purchasing decisions. Perhaps now would be a good time to explain the impetus behind all this. I read quite a lot of books...Continue
April 03, 2002Library Redesigned
Check out our completely revamped library, which is now a weblog all to itself. For the curious, the backend goes like this--when a new book is added to the library, it is categorized as a "Feature" title. The previously featured title then shifts down to the first column in "Recent Picks," and the last item in the third column then...Continue
March 23, 2002Bright Ideas?
Thanks to Jason Kottke for alerting me to the problems IE 5.0 has with this web site. I've been testing the CSS file under IE 5.5 and IE 6.0 (Windows 2000 Pro), yet never knew 5.0 had such problems. I can't figure out how the hell to fix it. From what I've been able to gather, 5.0 has big problems...Continue
February 21, 2002Moving. Again.
Well it's that time once again folks. Time to pack up the weblog and move to a new webhost. I need room. I need PHP. I may need MySQL. So things may get a little nutty around here in the next few days. Update: Safe and sound. My new web host Aletia Hosting really rocks. Within twenty-four hours they setup...Continue
February 01, 2002New Personal Site: Our Wedding
With Valentines Day coming around the corner, I thought now would be a good time to make good on my promise (to family, friends, etc.) to post photos from my wedding online. Head on over to Our Wedding to check out a handful of our favorite photos from all the craziness, as shot by Atlanta photographer (and friend) Kim Kenney....Continue
January 17, 2002Housecleaning
So the story goes like this. I hadn't taken the time to really look at how Windows browsers like IE and Opera were handling What Do I Know, but on a quick glance a few weeks back they appeared to be fine. Closer inspection however revealed all kinds of little quirks that I've now fixed. To my surprise, Internet Explorer...Continue
January 02, 2002Validatin'
Thanks to a few readers for pointing out a few bugs and oversights 'round here. After a couple of hours worth of work, I was finally able to get the W3C's stamp of error-free approval as XHTML Transitional. Had to rewire a few things, but it's good to go. I'd put their banner here to gloat, but...I'm just not that...Continue
New Year, New Look
Notice anything? If you're a regular reader of WDIK, you may be experiencing shock, discomfort, or vertigo, for this site has (once again) undergone a major facelift. A few weeks ago I wrote about my frustration with old, buggy, sloppy web design techniques, including tables, font tags, transparent 1px gif spacers, etc. I had dabbled with CSS for typography, but...Continue
December 13, 2001Ho Ho Ho
Here in Atlanta this past week the weather finally got cold, damp, and cloudy. For weeks we were the victims (yes, victims in my book) of seventy-degree temperatures and people shopping in their t-shirts and shorts. There are some who love warm weather, any time of year, but I'm not one of them. Mother Nature simply loses her groove. The...Continue
December 10, 2001To Hell With Tables
In the world of web design, I'm definitely old-school. Before there was Dreamweaver, Front Page, Go Live, or any of today's WYSIWYG web design applications, there was little more to work with than Wordpad, a book on HTML, and a boat load of patience. Looking at the computer I use today, I'm amazed how far technology, and the web, has...Continue
November 26, 2001Site Redesigned With MovableType
Woo-hoo! "What Do I Know" has been totally overhauled from front to back using the Moveable Type publishing system. I really can't say enough good things about MT. Well documented, great support, and it's fast. I was amazed how quickly it imported, categorized, and published all of my old blogger-based archives. The front end changed too to incorporate more CSS...Continue
October 24, 2001Big Changes Coming
What Do I Know is about to undergo some pretty big changes. The version you are currently looking at was my first foray into the world of weblogs, and since then I've learned quite a lot about what works, and what doesn't. It'll be more dynamic, easier to update, with more links and news to things you may or may...Continue
