Okay I suppose this post doesn’t work if you’re looking at an RSS feed, but anyway, my pride:

Just tossed the twitter feed on my blog. And hey, it works, how bout that!

Hooray technology.

As some may know, I work at Edu Comp and I am going to be showing some web design and home networking equipment off this saturday at the tech fair at the Oak Bluffs library. Come on by if you are a nerd and have free time (do those two things still go together anymore?) I may post from the event, or at least twitter it.

Yeah, I got in there. Busy day. Maybe an older works update at lunch time.

twitter.com/maurydegeofroy

Went to an informative seminar by Julie Roads of Writing Roads this morning and, despite my familiarity with Facebook, Blogs, Myspace, and other such sites beyond the scope of the lesson, and those taking it, I was glad to learn a little bit more about Twitter and gain an understanding of why it is catching on with more force than the rest of such networking sites. I won’t bore you with the details, as there are plenty of pro-twitter propaganda sites to go around, I only intended to say that I will be getting more involved with it. I have a twitter username (maurydegeofroy) that, currently, has only one post: questioning why I signed up in the first place. Now that I have discovered why, I will be working toward integrating it more into this site (most likely as a blog widget), and expanding twitter base, or whatever it’s called, to reach and be reached by more people. Yeah. More to come.

Here I am, thinking the blog looks lovely, and I go look at it on IE and find that all kinds of aspects of it aren’t working the way they’re supposed to. I know, I know, these are the standard web development problems but it’s still frustrating. I will have to spend a day getting everything W3C compliant.

Again, please, if anything looks wrong/broken on the site, let me know, I will swallow my pride and fix it.

Hmm, I just created the “Rant” section and I already have 2 in one day. Oh look what day it is…

Just tossed a little RSS feed link into the sidebar, I have some more design elements in the works, hopefully tomorrow I can dig in on my day off and plug away at some more stuff.

This is an approximation of what the background image looked like before I started making it whiter and whiter to let the text show through, by the way.

Click on the image for a larger version.

I’m sitting in Beetlebung and I just finished the background image, which you can see behind this post. Also did some code tweaks and all around made the site look prettier and more cohesive. It looks better with the Century Gothic font installed, but the font family system means it will at least be legible in any browser. The next big stage is getting the sections up and working, which will take a little longer.

I’ve got to prepare my show for tonight on wvvy now (just came back on the air), so listen up at 8 PM if you get the chance. Here’s a direct link to the audio stream from the station.

Keep checking back. I’m going to try to make a point of updating this at least once a day, and suggestions for more categories/sections/etc are welcome. I definitely desire for this project to be interactive and perhaps even collaborative on some level, despite the my name being on top of the site. This is the ground floor.

Maury de Geofroy.com is almost here.

Maybe.

Actually, there is much work yet to be done, but it is getting more and more solid every day. Today, however, is my actual birthday, so I am celebrating it by making a first “real” post.

The blog seems to be working correctly, so I am going to start using it. I’d appreciate it if anyone who feels up to task would explore it, comment, click links, etc. and see if anything looks wrong. I may be making dynamic changes to the layout at random times in the near future, and in the process I may break things (I’m still learning) … I’d appreciate being informed either in the comments or by email if something you try doesn’t work (aside from the sidebar – most of those pages aren’t made yet).

The plan is to turn this site into a repository for all things I create, and many things I find cool. So, in theory, anyone who has similar taste might like to make a habit out of returning from time to time. Eventually, I may even have a web store and sell original artwork, t-shirt designs, or whatever seems fun and worthwhile.

So please come back and check for future updates.

Oh, by the way, my first Site design for Educomp is live: Preserving Tisbury’s Future

It’s a basic website, the purpose of which is to encourage you to vote, if you are a Vineyard Haven Resident, in the upcoming town meeting. The meeting is on April 14th. The vote, you say? To allow the now-dry town to serve beer and wine. It’s a project I’m proud to be a part of and the committee quite liked the design. I am working on other sites, and they will be posted about in detail here in the future. Keep checking back.

Maury