My Twitter Background. Thoughts?
I just created a new Twitter background. What do you think? Be honest. I’m small, but I’m tough.
Ah! Life is Great and Crazy.
Between dedicating time to tweeting, keeping up on the latest social media, and fighting a killer migraine that I just can’t shake, I haven’t had time to talk about the best thing that’s happened in the last week! I was featured on Thoora’s homepage!
Now, if you’re not familiar with this little gem of a semantic engine, get introduced through my Digital and Social Media topic. Chances are if you’re reading this, you’re into the articles it has to offer. Among my favorite sources all in one place, Mashable, Engadget, and Ars Technica.
I don’t have time to go into the many splendid things Thoora has to offer, so I encourage you to either check it out for yourself or wait until Saturday, by when I should have an in-depth article on Thoora’s awesomeness.
In the meantime, bask in my glory.
My face is at the bottom of the sixth rectangle. Can you see it? Well, then, click through!
UPDATE: Thoora has since shut its doors and shut down its servers. R.I.P. little engine that could. You can read the draft to my would-be Thoora article here.
About Luz
DO GOOD
that is all
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The short story: As a web developer and social media coordinator, I connect creatives and educators to their audiences. I develop online identities using social networking campaigns, custom web design, content management, and analytics.
The long story: Years ago, an editor desirous of writing motivation, I started blogging. Soon after, I toughened up enough to seriously experiment with the HTML and CSS on MySpace and other social networks popping up at the time. Eventually, I had Googled and YouTubed and forum’d my way into understanding what is rightfully nicknamed code.
Some time later, CSS3 and HTML5 really starts taking shape. Scripts and plugins become numerous, easy to apply, and their presentation improves. Photoshop’s intelligence and the screencasting community continues to stretch the limits of what’s possible for a web developer without university training. These events and the collapse of the economy at the time when my student loan companies were asking for unreasonable sums per month have convinced me my place is promoting free knowledge resources.
…okay, so it wasn’t that long a story. Shrug. :D
Please feel free to contact me. I welcome any connection, any communication—even if it’s negative. Especially if it’s negative. You can find me on Twitter, Facebook, or you can email me at luzmcosta@gmail.com.
Yay! I Earned HTML5 Validation!
It took me some time, but I finally earned my HTML5 validation! Oh, the satisfaction that little green bar brings me is something I probably should discuss with a therapist.
But I forgive myself. :D This is a moment of glory. Relish it with me, my friends. I’m all giggles!
Now, to clean up my CSS. Scraps from various experiments need to be deleted. Sadly, the W3C’s CSS3 validator doesn’t make the job fast: because it doesn’t register -webkit- and -moz- as valid, I’ve got a lot of perfectly good code the validator marks as errors. A quick Google search and some emails between coding buddies proves my neuroses’ fears. The W3C will not validate these “non-standard” properties. The green bar for CSS is beyond my reach as long a I want to have my shadows and rounded borders. It doesn’t mean I’m not going to clean up my code, but it does suck to lose the green trophy just because I want to add depth and detail to my site.
Sigh. You win some, you lose some, but at least my site is really coming together. Ostensibly, it means my portfolio is really coming together. All my playing, experimenting, and glaring at code; pouring myself into every design and typography lesson I encountered; picking the brain of artists across spectrums—it’s all neatly coming together on this site.
If I keep up this pace, I should have a job in web development & social media before the end of this summer. Thank goodness for this long weekend. I’m finally feeling good about where my web presence is and where it’s going. More hard work awaits me, but I’m actually looking forward to it.
My next step: While cleaning up my CSS, I’ll be adding JavaScript. It’ll give me a chance to flex and refine my coding while adding to the user experience. I already know I want to make the business card I’ve created in the upper left-hand corner a lot more je ne se quois. A scrolling image slideshow where the current image is still—perhaps. All I know for sure is something interesting has to happen with that navigation menu. I’m open to suggestions.
