!!blue’s blog

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About the blog

My website is named like so: my initials and my nickname. I’m married and have one beautiful daughter!
Currently a freelance front-end web developer which is great cuz I get to work on all kinds of multimedia and web stuff.
Web standards has become very near and dear to my heart. It’s all about proper CSS and XHTML.
I love Spanish Rock music with my favorite artists being: Gustavo Cerati, Jumbo, Curanderos, Jaguares, Cafe Tacuba, Zoé, Voz de Mano, Fobia and more. If you want to listen to the same, go to last.fm and find me by my profile: zoblue
I also love: rock alternative, techno, house, techno industrial, electronic among others.
This blog is mostly a way for me to share whatever web-related news I can find plus a few thoughts and crazy ideas along the way.

WordPress: The best blog software—in my humble opinion! I even switched from Movable Type.
Total Choice Hosting: The absolute best host I’ve found and they have 99.99% uptime!

Extensible HyperText Markup Language 1.0: I run solely on XHTML code and it validates! Whoot! Sometimes my pages may not validate due to code being brought in from somewhere else, like my del.icio.us rss feed.
Cascading Style Sheets, level 2: font tags? center tags? No more! Tables? Only sometimes! It’s CSS for me!
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor: An easy scripting language that can be embedded into webpages just like JavaScript. Plus, of course, the whole of WordPress uses PHP.
JavaScript: well, duh! another no-brainer.
~~Nice Titles revisited~~
Nicer Titles: A lovely way of showing tool tips for links, deleted & inserted statements, abbreviations, and acronyms. Just lovely. The previous version I was using conflicted with other javascripts so I’ve updated to this newly re-written one.
sIFR: Scalable Inman Flash Replacement 2.0 (pronounced “siffer”): ~~A perfect way to get your favorite font on the web without having create images. You export your font with Flash and using some JavaScript and CSS, your headers are replaced with Flash typography.~~
Working With Alternate Style Sheets from A List Apart: A List Apart’s article on how to allow users to switch style sheets to personalize your site. Switching style sheets on my site is easy, just click on the square with the ‘A’ in it to switch from one to another.