Geekerie

The sites I design and produce here at Hit Those Keys are all unique, but that doesn’t mean they are produced in a vacuum or without reference to useful software and clever coding innovated by others.

I am extremely partial to the work of Al Sparber and Gerry Jacobsen at Project Seven. Nearly all of the javascript solutions I offer my clients originate here. Privileged glimpses behind the scenes at products-in-progress have me convinced that very few companies test their codelings as thoroughly, care as much about about web standards and usability, or support their products in real-world conditions with such patience.

It’s always nice when fledgeling blog gets noticed. Okay, true enough that Wild Keys has been around since 2003, been blogspotted by MSNBC and the likes of Mark Bernstein and Jill Walker, but it’s followed a very interrupted and mult-url-ed path.

The current design is my mod of Chris Pearson’s first “pro” design, Thesis. I chose to use this theme now that I’m using WordPress because Chris’ previous work is so fine and his design and markup goals and philosophy are so similar to my own. Thesis itself bore a striking resemblance to the redesign of Hit Those Keys that I recently deployed, so the framework seemed like an ideal and timely choice as I get comfortable with WordPress as a publishing platform. So, yay. Thanks, PJ, for the kudos.

For the negative 5 people reading this blog, I just want to explain that I switched servers today. I decided that I wouldn’t wait for the WP community to fix IIS support, so I moved everything to my other host, which runs on an Apache server.

There is almost no difference between the two blogs, except that new posts will be added here and not there. The difference in addies is small — the old address is at hitthosekeys.com/wildkeys/ and the new one is hitthosekeys.net/wildkeys/.

Now, back to more important stuff…