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I’m a subscriber to the Sitepoint e-mail list and receive the Tech Times whenever they publish it. In this edition, one article really hit home for me personally: Color for Coders – Color and Design for the Non-Designer It was about color schemes. From the author,

"I’m a designer and I work at a hosting/ISP company in a room with four very talented Web programmers. Together, they can develop just about any kind of application, but not one of them could develop a harmonious color scheme if his life depended on it."

I by no means consider myself to be a web designer, but rather, a web developer. If there’s confusion about the differences in each head over to Jeff Croft’s blog entry on it. In a nutshell, this article explans the color wheel and color schemes, which is really new to me. This is great timing, as I’m looking at what color scheme I’d like to do for dustinfluke.com I’m glad to see there are still some folks out there that can appeal to people like me, who happened upon web design.

In somewhat related news, there was also an article about Movable Type’s comment spam, and ways to fix it. This topic has been covered just about everywhere, but I thought the author of Automated Blog Comment Spam? talks about using other methods for removing and eliminating comment spam that I haven’t seen before. If you’re sick of comment spam it’s definitely worth a read.

Well, with a nice break from both school and work, I hope to have a different version of the homepage and site in general. With everything going on lately, I’m lucky if I post twice a month, let alone about anything exciting. Perhaps the holidays will spur some creative thoughts.

Merry Christmas!

I uh…finally realized that my site wasn’t loading in Internet Explorer correctly. Sorry ’bout that folks.
I had some server side includes that were overriding my comment tags that I used to remove the side bar from the site. I’ve removed those.
Of course, my site works perfectly with Firefox
Maybe not perfect, but close enough.