Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
Some people think this is the model how information on the internet works This is how we get things like walled LMS’s and rigid online HR applications that enforce ambiguous deadlines of “due at midnight” (oops that is my own beef, quick question is midnight at the end if the day or the beginning?). Everything […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create comes from Wikipedia’s page on surrealistic techniques: “Create a Self Portrait Cubomania Style — Cubomania is a surrealist method of making collages in which a picture or image is cut into squares and the squares are then reassembled without […]
Oops, I managed to write this and did not publish. And I say I never save drafts when blogging. Never say Mever! It’s been a while since I added anything new to my True Stories of Openness site. The stuff happens all the time (and not just to me), but lacking some event where I […]
In the house of CogDogBlog, most blog posts are written in the moment; no draft and reviews, just… splat. But this one has been bouncing around; it seems petty, whiny, un-necessary. Yet it keeps grinding away in my gut. Let’s see what happens. Countless are the times I watched the epic Cecille B. DeMille production […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine It was 1993. One year into my first real job, the first time with real medical benefits. I needed a new prescription for eyeglasses, so I found myself at an optometrist. After he did the usual dial thing with the lens machine (“Which […]
Bryan Alexander recently shared his information wrangling routine, and it gives some insight to just how coherently he scans, processes, and re-shares information. But how do you categorize the serendipitous sniffing that defies such orderly processes? I find the most interesting stuff in the most haphazard ways. Like today. Among the twitter flow, I saw […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine This is no list of career highlights for 2013, no roundup of top viewed blog posts, no prizes are being given, just another day the wind blows and rips a page of the calendar that falls on the floor. If I were to […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine My dimly remembered history of learning world history paints the age of discovery as some sort of pure pursuit of mapping the world, with captains mumbling something akin to the opening to Star Trek. Columbus knew the world was not flat! (so did […]
I’ve been tinkering this week for a new approach to building basic web sites driven by a single HTML file (with a backend of sophisticated CSS and Javascript). It’s a style you can start to recognize — see Medium, Sports Illustrated, and countless others once you tune into it.
It is exploding. This is a future of web design based on Bootstrap, a framework first created by twitter that is focused on responsive (any device it reformats) and actually a mind set of mobile first in design. But it looks gorgeous in a web browser too. And it looks must less “pagey” than what came before it. And it is standalone- it needs no database, and can run in a browser offline.
And it is also exciting to be dabbling with a new approach for web design. It is not, however, something that you make through a GUI interface, punching buttons, and menus– you need to get in the code. You do not need to understand how it works (I am a model of that). This is not a tutorial but my own record keeping as I start learning how to build.
But stop talking and start showing. I am using this for a new version of my “calling card” or a “landing page” site at http://cogdog.info — explore it first, then I will roll through what I have done here.
New site for cogdog.info
And the same site on a mobile
I bought the domain a few years back, and for a while simply had it pointed to my About.me site which is easy to set up and connect to your various social media sites. What I liked for a while was that it had a contact form, so people could message me. Then they changed the way it worked, so you have to log into About.me to leave a message. Then it turned into something that keeps messaging me when people “like” the site. And its run by AOL.
So I decided to take back the site and built it myself, after all, I want to show what I can build, not how I can be dependent on a third party site. Keep on Reclaimin’.
Hi, Hello. I was wondering whether you’d be interested in selling advertising space on http://cogdogblog.com? Does the phrase “No, not even after hell freezes over” mean anything to you? The advertisement would be unobtrusive and we can pay you an annual upfront payment for the advertising space. See my rates below. I’m really wondering when […]
