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More Fun with Optimization

As promised, my troubleshooting is done (with Wordpress and GA and Website Optimizer), so I can write about the latest attempt at optimizing something not really worth optimizing.  I was encouraged by a couple people to take the plunge with multi-variate optimization, and I finally did. Granted, its just the work section on this site, [...]

Wordpress Upgrade in Progress Now Complete

This time I got rid of the blank screen of death in only 2 hours! w00t! I think everything is back to normal, and I’ve tried installed/uninstalling plugins to make things run better. Maybe next time I upgrade Wordpress I will only have 1 hour of blank screen of death! At least its not running [...]

God reads my blog

…because it is sunny again in Seattle! w00t! I am now done updating the site for the moment. I condensed the nonsense on here thanks to the informal usability advice of “Richard Branson.” Today is my last day off this week so I would plan on tanning, but there are definitely a lot of construction [...]

someone needs to stop me

Why can I not stop making changes to the site!? Just when I was done getting things looking ok in IE, I go and change the portfolio layout to a tabbed box (which I had wanted to do for awhile, but still). So now I must deal with IE-related nonsense again. Blar. I don’t know [...]

IE = not cool

The good news: IE 8 seems to retain (most) of the CSS goodness that my Firefox CSS displays.
The bad news: IE 7 is ignoring my updates to the IE-specific CSS file. More investigation needed here. Still sore from yesterday’s hike, and now wishing I had a pet chipmunk.
Also I promised I would link to Brazen [...]