Trent Richardson

practical web design & development

Archive for the ‘General’ Category

New to Github

So I recently signed up on Github.. it seems to be the coolest thing to do right now. I’ve put some thought towards moving my projects over to it. However, other than version control I don’t see what the benefit is in it? I guess it will allow other people to view and commit too? [...]

New Projects Section

I’ve been studying how I could improve my blog to meet its main purposes lately, and I’ve create a new Projects section on the sidebar to help display various projects I have developed. I haven’t posted every single code snippet I’ve ever done, but it covers the larger projects which get the most of my [...]

Over the course of the past month I’ve been doing a bit of work on my blog, everything from performance, to seo. I’ve noticed a pretty good jump in my visitors too. Nearly twice as many! I thought I’d share a few of the enhancements I’ve made. This is of course a WordPress blog, so [...]

Reading a Book

Never thought I would say this since I’m long out of college, but I am in fact reading a book. (Hence why I’ve been quiet here on the blog the last few days) I purchased the The Smashing Book. So far it has been very educational. It is broken up into several really useful topics, [...]

I’m Now On Twitter!

It took me long enough, but I’m now on Twitter! I actually had an account set up several months ago but never logged in. I decided it was time. My username is practicalweb. While I may not post every event in life, I will try to keep it up to date with the blog and [...]