CSS Naked Day is a day where participating websites remove the css used on their website resulting in a display of semantic markup and proper use of (x)html to help promote web standards.

So, if in a few days you notice my site missing graphics and not looking like its normal self, do not be alarmed.

For more information about CSS Naked Day, click here.

It may come as a shock to many of you, but I have sold my mac and replaced it with a kick-ass new Acer laptop. I know, I know what you’re thinking. “Why would Todd ever leave his Mac, he’s the biggest Apple fanboy that I know!”

After struggling with getting my Macbook Pro set up once again from a complete re-install, I started to truly question my work processes and the amount of money that I spend each year on Apple products. Sure, some of them are nice and I always like the look of their products, Apple just doesn’t get it anymore. I’m tired of the translucent menubars, gimmicky Time Machine, and lack of user interface themes.

Well, no more… My new Acer laptop arrived yesterday and within a few hours I had Ubuntu up and running and now I am learning the Gimp(Photoshop doesn’t run on Linux - bummer)

I can’t wait to see how much money I end up saving with this change of platform and I believe my web design will get better too, because I’ll finally be on the same platform as 90% of the rest of the world. That’s hard to beat, eh?

Anyways, stay tuned as I’ll be posting quite a bit of articles on my change back to the darkside as soon as I can figure out how to get an FTP client installed. I also need too find out how to install my printer - anyone know how to get a driver for an old Epson Stylus?

I have been working with the Development versions for awhile now and I have actually even been using them in some small cases, for client work. These have been mostly standard installs with nothing special about them.

However, I am about to upgrade this website to version 2.5 and since this site is not like most of my sites, there may be some issues involved. This site is a very customized version of WordPress with lots of custom plugins and code. Some of which I believe is now duplicate with some of the features offered in the latest WordPress. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some of the functionality I’ve hacked into this install natively with the default WordPress install but we’ll see.

At any rate, please excuse any mess you see here in the near future as I’ll be re-working things a bit, I’m sure. If you don’t spot anything out of whack, then I’ve done a good job at hiding it!

UPDATE:
I’ve upgraded and everything is swell or at least it seems to be. If you spot anything out of whack, please let me know. Thanks!

For the most part, I’ve been limping along with no css viewing or editing feature (vital for what I do all day) and things like the “feature persistence” for outlined elements not being, well, persistent. Recently, Chris Pederick released version 1.1.5 of the toolbar that I and most other web developers call vital. This latest update works in the latest nightlies and now I am about as happy as a pig in, err well let’s just say that “I am very happy”!

Download either the latest build of Firefox or the Web Developer Toolbar.