The www.disciplers.org site is updated now to use alt attributes for its images so that handicapped users can have their screen readers read them and so that people with their browsers not rendering images can still see where the links are going. The material on this site was really helpful in my spiritual growth.
Author Archives: Randy Peterman
Stopdesign Redesign Phase II
Stopdesign
has updated ‘their’ look. And when I say ‘their’ it’s like I say ‘we’ for Randy Peterman. Because primarily I work alone. Doug has done a good job of keeping it nice and clean, but I also think that he needs to widen up his middle column on the front page because otherwise it’s just too narrow and I have a hard time focusing in on what is sub-navigation, what is content etc.
Furthermore, in this impromptu critique I love his navigation link mouseovers on the ‘seealso‘ page. Each section of the site has its own look which allows Doug to show off his design style without asking you to pick a stylesheet (a la CSSzengarden.com).
Good stuff over all.
JLo Gets Married…… Again
I had thought I’d heard something of this, but apparently it’s true (see: evidence?
). Yeah, that’s going to last. The timing of the new hubby’s divorce finalization and JLo’s recently getting over Ben makes me pretty certain that this is going to last for at least 2-3 weeks.
Reagan Passes
Ronny is dead. Whether you’re a conservative or liberal the guy was a president and he had quite an impact on America.
Shrek Too
This weekend on Saturday night Jessica and I went to see ‘Shrek 2’ AKA ‘The Ogre Movie.’ Why is it AKA ‘The Ogre Movie?’ Because Abby loves the donkey in the movie and if we say, “Shrek,” she runs around saying, “Funny Donkey!” over and over until our ears hurt and we lament having mentioned Shrek. However, we don’t lament seeing the movie, which in my opinion was way funnier than I had expected. Lets just say that when they parody something, they parody with great style. The ‘Sir Justin’ poster in Mrs. Shrek’s bedroom was classic (Cameron Diaz beau is/was Justin Timberlake). It definitely was good and way outranked Ballistic by about 3 million on a scale from 0 to 1.
Michael Moore Hates America
Or does he? I don’t know, but they’re
making a movie with that as a title.
Usability Testing
I am excited because with one of my clients I’ll get to do some basic usability testing. This means that I get to put my software I’ve been working on in front of someone and say. “Use it.” All I get to do at this point in time is observe them. If the user gets stuck, can’t accomplish a task or runs into an error, I’ll get to take notes, but that is it. I’m very excited about the opportunity to see things in action with a ‘tabula rasa’ [blank slate]. I’m eager to actually get to do some of the things that I’ve only read or learned about because I think that it will 1) help me grow my skills as a designer 2) help me be a better planner 3) help me think like an end user. I often approach things as a designer (yes, including online ordering and administration) which is a weakness. I may post what happens just for fun (since a few readers of this blog are also developers).
Quote from the Potty
After having a pretty substantial bowel movement Abby said the the poop as it was flushing, “Bye-bye poo-poos. See you later!”
I hope we don’t see them later.
Gospel Music Riverdance
My neighbors upstairs have had the following events take place above us:
- Running around like a herd of Hippos
- Having a Jerry Springer type fight
- Loud banging sounds for sustained periods of time during the day
- Loud rap music for parts of the day
They have now added Gospel Music Riverdancing to their resume. The (presumably) woman has turned the music up super loud (which is how I know it’s Gospel music, I can hear the words). And the “Spirit must be movin'” since she is stomping her feat in place above our bathroom. I have to laugh because after the Jerry Springer “Don’t you hit me!” scream and the rest of the events, the Gospel music puts things into greater perspective: They must be Black, Irish, Trailer trash Pentecostals 🙂
NOTE:this of course plays the stereotype card for humor only. I count myself in the good company of Bill Cosby.
State of the Urine Address
Abby went potty this morning – in the toilette two out of three times. This is incredible progress and as the Resident of the United States, I’d like to thank the Secretary of the Interior for her incredible job these last two weeks.
Thank you.
Good Morning.
The Resident