Hi, my name is Jordan Byrd. I make things.
Modernizr, a quick tutorial for a n00b
Ok, so you’re a big-shot now. You just built your first big site. You know how things work: you’ve fiddled around with some shiny new CSS3, built some nice javascript functionality, and put together a completely table-less layout. After all, you are coding in the 21st century. The last thing to take care of before …
My To-Do List
Sunday is usually the day I get most of my own work done for Bootstrap. Stuff like marketing, blogging, tweaking my site, etc. Here’s what I’m planning on getting done today, and I really hope I manage it all. Set-up my new business page so that it’s integrated into wordpress Work on some of the …
Website Update
Well, I finally updated my website. It’s a pretty huge downsizing, but I really like this version better than the last one. I decided not to use the redesign I was working on before. You can see a picture of it a few posts down from this one; it just didn’t look good enough to …
Refinery Tip
Before you can run rails server with refinery built, you need to make sure that you’ve properly installed ImageMagick with macports. Then rMagick.
WHOO!
Just discovered Rails for Zombies! I know what I’m doing tonight.
DBA
So I finally bit the bullet and filed my DBA. The process was so much simpler than I thought it was; it took less than 45 minutes and only cost around 35 dollars. So now I can officially start my business—even though I’ve technically been up and running for almost a year now—and open a …
Refinery CMS — A tribute
So for the past few weeks I’ve been gritting my teeth and trying to actually learn a real scripting language. My previous attempts in PHP always ended with me getting frustrated and quitting. The last time I was actually able to do anything useful with a real language was when I learned Perl in High …
Updating My Website.
I’ve been in the process of updating my website for months now, but progress has recently just stopped. This week I’m going to make a big push and see if I can finish up the Client Questionnaire. I’m also working on a website for Jim Howard, click here to check it out. Oh, and here’s …
Turns out I’m awful at blogging.
But I’m working on it, I promise.
I’ve never been able to draw.
Here’s a simple sketch of tony danza. As a zombie. It took about 15 minutes. I’ve always been bad at drawing, so now I’m trying to brush up. I’ll post more sketches as I do them. I’m not only bad at drawing; Illustrator is the weakest chunk of my skillset. I’ve been using on and …