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Scurker Levels Up

Jason — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:28:38 +0000

Welcome to the new and improved scurker.com! I’d never felt comfortable with my previous design and never really felt inspired by it. There had been some things that I had felt had been missing, and the site lacked a lot of flexibility I was looking for. Shortly after my previous design had been launched, I begin work on this iteration giving time for things to settle in. What has changed?

Standards Are Dead?

Well technically, no. Previously I have been using XHTML 1.0 strict, but have now switched to an HTML 5 doctype, which is simple as . The majority of the features I plan on using are quite usable across most major browsers, so I see little reason not to make the switch.

Portfolio

Thanks to features added with WordPress 3.0, this has given me the ability to update new additions to the portfolio that much easier!

No More Boring Fonts!

Goodbye Trebuchet MS, hello @font-face! Web fonts have wide support in a majority of browsers, so why not take advantage of it? The Google Font API is a great resource for doing so.

This is only a portion of the site as the rest should come around the corner of the holidays. Please feel free to leave any comments or suggestions below.

Planterguy.com

Jason — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:45:16 +0000

I’m proud to add planterguy.com to my portfolio! Planterguy is the blog of Guy Walker who works with the Association of Related Churches.

I was more than happy to put together this wordpress theme for Guy Walker and wanted a “dirty” feel to go along with the name “planterguy”. Theme was built from the ground up and includes several custom widgets tuned for Guy Walker’s needs.

A New Beginning

Jason — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:38:17 +0000

You’ve undoubtedly reached this site through either word of mouth, or via my personal blog, but I’d like to formally welcome you to the new scurker.com! I’ve been hard at work over the past week in order to get everything up and running and am happy to finally be at this point.

One of my big reasons for rolling over to a new design was the limitations my old site was giving me. I wanted to have a new fresher design in addition to having more flexibility with the content on the site. Now with the addition of WordPress, I can easily outline new projects or post about some dramatic revolution in web design. In addition the new site will help me give a better showcase for my skills and abilities for any future clients and/or employers.

You are not seeing the final version of this roll-out, but features will slowly be added as I get time. Please feel free to post a comment if you notice any issues, or contact me if you have any opportunities you would like to discuss.